JEALOUS GIRL’S REVENGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3403, 6 February 1920, Page 3

JEALOUS GIRL’S REVENGE.

FORMER LOVER DENOUNCED j.‘O

GERMANS.

: Of all the war tragedies recounted in 1 the court-nlart.i:ll room of the Ibalais dc : Justice in Paris, none could have had a, more :dl‘amatiC ‘iillitol'est than that which led to the condelnnati~o.n of 3 f'3.ir-haired young girl, Angelo Aubert, to ten years penal servitude, for be. 'Cl‘{l_')’l.]lg' Sergeant Roehon, of the French Army, to the German pofice at Luon, says the Daily Mail. According to the prosecution the crime was one of jealousy and revenge. In the fighting in 1914 the Sergeant. “"315 'f3k€’ll Prisolmr by the Germans, but managing to escape was harbourcd by Angelo Aubert’s father’ in thoi]. house at Laon. There a love idyn sprang up between the handsome young soldier and the young girl, and nlutu;;l vows were exclranged. At Christmas, 1914, Rochon left {he Auberts’ house for a. safer refuge out‘: side the town. ’l‘here, fox-getfm Of‘ past promises, he became engaged to a Mlle. Claire Camhria, and the news in due course reaclied Angele Aubert.“ Soon after Rochou was arrested by the Germans and shot_ Before execution he had a. midnight interview with Claire Cambria. and at young‘ French priest named Mollet. To both he said he knew it was _A_mggle Aubert who had denounced him. He handed the police a written statement‘ to that efi'eet. !

Tl‘.-0 priest and MllO. Cambrai aftel'\‘val'ds decided to keep the accusation secret, but Angola Auberf, when (:'3Jlo<] as a witness in the frial of Gormtm police spies of Laon, revived the mystery by Suggesting that this gang new under its trial was probably rc-.c-ponsiblo f'ol'_ ‘rho denunciation of’ Sol'g‘r. Rochon. At the next sitting of HlO Coul‘t—nlal'ti'.ll Claire Cambrzei mu] ‘ '~ .\bb'* Mollot af ‘rhoir I'oquo:<‘r. wm-n given 1o:1v(r to state what had taken plmm in Rochon’s GOll.