DISSOLVED IN TEARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 16, 30 October 1933, Page 6

DISSOLVED IN TEARS.

FRENCH MURDER TRIAL. 4 WOMAN FLIES AT SARRETT. (United Press Association —Copyright). 'PARIS, October 27. Til© sensational trial which is in progress at Aix on Provence was again marked by several scenes. _ r , Several charges are being heard against Catherine- and Plnlomene Schmidt, German sisters, who came to France before the war and married two •Frenchmen who mysteriously disappeared and against Georges Sarrett, a suave middle-aged Italian-horn, lawyer of Greek parentage long domiciled m and his daughter dissolved into tears when, following the collapse and removal from court of Sarrett s first wife, Madame as she attempted to testify. The Prosecutoi read her statement prior to Sarrett s arrest. Accused’s second wife, _ Madame Airaud, also weeping, testified that Sarrett had given her many articles belonging to the murdered priest Chambon, in whose villa Sarrett lived for three months after Chambon’s death. , There was another scene when Phiiomene Schmidt flew at Sarrett and tried ,to scratch his face, screaming, “Dirty scoundrel! Low dog!” The police with difficulty restored order.

EVIDENCE REGARDING POISON.

ALLEGED FORGED DOCUMENTS

deceived This Day, 8.30 a.m.) ' PARIS, October 29. Further startling evidence in the murder included that of a. chemist ornploved at a Marseilles pharmacy, declaring .that in 1925 a man named Garrotte, who. had been a lover ot Philomene Schmidt, had access to poison, of which sufficient to kill o 0 people was found missing. The prosecution Drodueed documents allegedly signed by’Debreuil, Catherine Schmidt’s former husband, proving that Debreuil was a chemical inventor able to obtain various acids. Catherine Schmidt’s counsel declared that the were forgeries. The prosecution also road letters from the mother of Heibin, revealing that three months after the consumptive’s death Catherine Schmidt .wrote, Ostensibly on behalf of Herbin, stating: “Our dear little friend is unable to write owing to having an injured Schmidt declared tha| Sarrett dictated the letters.