WIFE MURDERER
ACQUITED BY FRENCH JURY. United Press Association.—P j Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] PARIS, February 28. Another sidelight on French justice was furnished in the same court where Lady Owen was sentenced to five years solitary imprisonment. Louis Lefert, a grocer, aged thirty-eight, was charged with the murder of his wife. He admitted that he slashed her to ‘dentil with a razor, hut he declared that lie could not imagine why he had killed her. He loved his wife dearly, but he was overwrought at the loss of .£2OO in a business deal. The jury acquitted him without hearing the case.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 5
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