SEQUEL TO MURDER
PRISONERS AND WITNESSES BROUGHT 45,000 MILES
JOURNEY COST £15,000
Forty-five prisoners and nearly 100 witnesses are being brought 4,500 miles from French Guiana in South America for a trial at Nantes in Western France, as a fair trial could not he secured In the colony. It is estimated that their transport and the preliminary proceedings, both in South America and France, will cost the French Government more than £15.000. The prisoners are charged with murder, arson, and rioting at Cayenne during the election contest for the French Parliament in 1921, when M. Jean Galmont, a former deputy for the colony, was found dead in his bed, having been poisoned with arsenic.
There are more than two tons of papers concerned with/the case, which, it is thought, will keep the assize court busy for at least three weeks.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 13
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140SEQUEL TO MURDER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 13
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