CRIMES IN PARIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1922, Page 5

CRIMES IN PARIS.

THE UNWRITTEN LAW. PROTEST AT FREQUENCY. By Talegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright Paris', March 6. The public is growing weary of acquittals in crime cases arising out of the passions, such as the Perron case, in which a pretty actress was acquitted after deliberately shooting her husband, who had been too attentive to another woman. It is realised that these crimes are too frequent and committed ydth too much impunity, and that there is an undue tendency to regard the authors as heroes and heroines.

Superficial newspaper comment on the subject is recognised as disguising a serious warning. M. Maurice Prax inquires. “Why use cardboard targets for revolver practice when a wife is handy? Devotees of the chase are a favored race, because there is no close season for wives. The time is coming when sportsmen, asked if they have had luck this morning, will reply: ‘Rotten, I missed my wife twice with my new double barrel.’ ”

Another commentator suggests relieving overworked judges by altering the marriage code and permitting one party to put the other to death for infidelity, with the distinct understanding that the neighbors are not to be disturbed.

These suggestions, however, are already rendered out of date by Madame Motteau who, objecting to her husband coming home intoxicated and threatening to punch her, put four bullets into his head, donned her hat, and reported the affair to the nearest police station.