FIVE MURDERS IN DAY
HORROR IN FRANCE JURY SYSTEM CONDEMNED By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright PARIS, Wednesday. The French public is horrified by an extraordinary series of crimes and mysteries. Five murders are reported in to-day’s papers. They include the case of the burned body of Gaston Truphene, found at Melun, and the murder of a woman newsvendor in Paris, whose skull was smashed with an iron bar in her shop, in broad daylight. In another case a man shot his wife dead because she refused to make a cup of coffee for him in the middle of the night. Public anxiety has been increased by the failure of the police to track tlie criminals. In several cases, also, juries have acquitted murderers whose guilt was plain, having accepted counsel’s emotional pleas that the crimes were ones of passion. Three accused persons whom the police were confident of convicting of murder were acquitted yesterdaj'. This caused “Le Temps’’ to make a strong plea for an immediate reform of the jury system.—A. an<i N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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