PARIS SHOOTING.
EVIDENCE AS TO SANITY. MME. FONTAGNE’S CASE. "PARIS, June 28. Reporting to a Magistrate, two doctors expressed the opinion that Mine de Fontagne, who shot and wounded the Count de Chambrun, formerly French 1 Ambassador to Rome, at the Gare du Nord, in March, was of sound mind. A third declared that she was unbalanced and if left at liberty might repeat the shooting, and recomniended that she be detained in an institution. Madame do Fontagne, former actress and journalist (who said her real name was de la Ferriere), declared when arrested that the count had caused her to be separated from “a very high personage” whom sho had previously interviewed for her newspaper and whose love she had possessed. Madame de Fontagne had interviewed Signor Mussolini, and 300 photographs of him wero found in her flat, together with a journal which was confiscated by the police. She said that after she had told the count in confidence about her romance she found hereclf unable .to see Signor Mussolini again and was informed that the French Embassy had something to do with this turn of events.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 9
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188PARIS SHOOTING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 9
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