FRENCHMAN’S TRIAL
FOUGHT WITH WRONG ARMY. PAULS, April 13. Joau Ernest Boi&sonard, a Detroit miner, i\ ho returned to France voluntarily to clear his name for not having answered his country’s call in time of war, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, in spite of the eloquent plea of his woman lawyer, Maitre Spinettn. When war broke out Boissonard was living at Detroit, where he had been domiciled for four years. He immediately went to Canada and enlisted in the Toth. Battalion of t'.ie Canadian Infantry in 1914. When his mobilisation order for the Twenty-fourth French Infantry Regiment wins sent to him in iSeptem-• her, 1915, he never received it, as he wa, s fighting in the Canadian army. He only became aware last autumn that he was posted ns evading servine in the French army during the war, and came immediately to Franco to face the charges. He has a sinter and brother living at Detroit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 3
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158FRENCHMAN’S TRIAL Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 3
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