WOMAN UNDER DEATH SENTENCE TESTIFIES AGAINST ANOTHER
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11.52 a.m. PARIS, Sunday. The unprecedented scene of a woman under sentence of death appearing in prison garb and giving evidence against another murderess was witnessed in the Criminal Court. The condemned woman gave evi. dence that Madame Vallee, who was charged with murdering a farmer, confessed in her prison cell that she shot the farmer, but the fault was her husband's. Largely on this evidence Madame Vallee was found guilty and sentenced to death, and-her husband to life imprisonment. Throughout the trial the husband and the w’ife accused each other of the crime.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 9
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107WOMAN UNDER DEATH SENTENCE TESTIFIES AGAINST ANOTHER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 9
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