ANONYMOUS SLANDER.
HOMES AND HAPPINESS WRECKED.
FRENCH WIDOW ACCUSED.
(Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 13.
The “Daily News” Paris correspondent states that the police have arrested Julienne le Faure, a widow, aged forty, bfi a charge of writing a thousand anonymous letters during the last four years, so terrorising the village of Consignat. The letters wrecked homes, prevented marriages, sundered friendships, and caused many to emigrate. The letters were found daily on window-sills, on church benches, in horse troughs, under bushes, or pushed under doors at dusk. One farmer was threatened unless he deposited a thousand francs, at the base of an oak tree. He refused, after which his farmhouse was burned down. Another farmer was warned to leave the village. He refused, after which his children received poisoned sweets. Later his cattle, sheep and poultry were poisoned. The farmer bolted. The plague of letters increased and more farms were burned and stock poisoned. Since the woman’s arrest the letters have ceased.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 5
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165ANONYMOUS SLANDER. Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 5
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