PARIS TRUNK MYSTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 5

PARIS TRUNK MYSTERY.

WIFE AND DAUGHTER TRIED. " SPIRITUAL LIAISONS." (Received 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, June 11. The Bessarbo trial has been marked by eensational scenes, mother and daughter protesting their innocence in floods of vituperative eloquence, which the judge and counsel were powerless to quell. Madam Bessarbo angrily denied the allegations of past loose conduct, defining iher relations with men as spiritual liaisons. The tensest moirx'nt of the trial ■was when the judge asked how the trunk containing her husband's corpse came to leave the. house. Madame made a long explanation, concluding: "T did not kill my husband. Do what you like with mc." The judge then examined the daughter, who said: ''I cannot speak freely: there is a secret in this. If revealed it would completely alter the case." Madame, fixing intent eyes upon her daughter, hereupon exclaimed in Spanish: "I forbid you to say anything."— ,("Times.") MAN BELIEVED IMPLICATED. PARIS, June 11. Insinuating that she lovea the actual murderer, ami will sacrifice herself if necessary to shield him. Bessara-bos resisted prolonged appeals of the judge and her own counsel to reveal her secret. Trembling she told the judge: '■'My mother told m P the whole truth when T seemed to be at the point of death. I refuse to reveal it." The judge then appealed to the mother for the last time, ""AVill ynu speak?"' The mother replied, "We are not guilty, hut I will accuse nobody." The police themselves believe that an unknown man is implicated.—("Times.")