COURT SENSATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5

COURT SENSATION

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trial suspended on r Account of uproar CRIMINAL SISTERS

— By Telegraph — Copyright).

Paris, Octoher 24. The trial at Aix en Provence of the Schmidt sisters and the lawyer, Georges Sarrett, was suspen'ded amid scenes of wild disorder. Sarrett and Katherine Schmidt accused each other of lying. Shaking his fists, Sarrett shouted: "I had a mi'llion in my pockets, and could have disappeared. Instead, I remained." Sarrett's daughter gave evidence confirming the accusations against her father, who buried his face in his hands. The Schmidt sisters maintained that they acted as instruments of Sarrett. Katherine eried continuously. Eventually a violent duel between counsel caused an uproar and a suspension. S'everal charges are being heard. against Katherine and Philomene Schmidt, German sisters, who went to France before the war and married two Frenchmen who mysteriously disappeared, and against Georges Sarrett, a middle-aged Italian-horn lawyer of Greek parentage long domieiled in France. It is alleged that the accused, with accompliees, defrauded insurance companies by tsiking out policies on the lives of people who disappeared. The three accused are alleged to have disposed of the bodies of two victims by dissolving them in a bath of sulphuric acid.