LEGAL TORTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 22

LEGAL TORTURE.

I "SRprlMi: Kill mo iin.l lei ni. li.-ivi- i 1 pea-el" pleads Allien I.e. v. who is In .• Bordeaux prison awailina ihe guillotljmi the rliars.'n nf having slain two women. lull. nh.i |~r so.era! niniiihfi has been Hi. •.ietlw of judicial red lapia After li,- hail been mdemrcd Levy wa-j lilontlllpil as the man wanted In nunieroti-1 other i-llip. mi minor iharsfS of forgery.! fraud •.mil burglary—about twenty crime*.— in tho last ton years. A soar.*, of le*2il precedents showed that he could not be executed until he had been sentenced fori all his known crime-'. | As a re.-ull. for Ihe last six months h<hns been travelling all over France nierel.v !to ple.itl guilty in the Tarious localities where he has committed crimes and tnva judge impose a short trard sentence, antl i Ihe prospects aro that he will have to eon. j i tlniie this for another year before ho mm. . i Ito the final chapter of his career. ;