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MADAME FONTANGES IN UNITED STATES. ‘United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 19. The Department of Labour ordered Madame Fontanges to he deported on December 20. • > Madame Fontanges obtained a %vrit of habaes corpus requiring the Department of Labour to produce Madame Fontanges in court to-morrow. She asserted that the board, by which her deportation was ordered, had not accorded her a fair and impartial hearing. The Ellis Island authorities detained Madame Magda de Fontanges. No explanation was given. A large contingent of journalists and photographers descended on her when it was learned that she was coming to appear at a night club. Madame de Fontanges, a former actress and journalist, shot the Comte de Chambrun, former French Ambassador to Rome, on the platform of the Gare No Nord, in Paris, in March. At her trial on charges of nondeclaration of the possession of firearms she was sentenced' to one year’s imprisonment, • but the sentence was suspended under the First Offenders’ Act. She was also fined 100 francs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 35, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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