MOTHER ACQUITTED.
TOOK FOUR LIVES. HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. After' hearing from witnesses the story of a French housewife's desperate fight with poverty, which she ended by gassing her husband and three children, the Seine Assizes jury found her not guilty of murder. Madame Marie Celle, said the witnesses, had not enough money to feed and clothe the children, to say nothing of her husband, whom they described as ne er do well." "She used to get up at five in the morning and work till midnight in her dyers and cleaner's shop," said one. "Madame Celle," said another, 'used to have her meals in secret in order to hide her misery from her children. Meals! She would have a piece of bread for breakfast, a piece of bread for lunch and a piece of bread for tea. Her husband, it was stated, treated her brutally and after a long struggle to make both ends meet she turned on toe gas, asphyxiating the children and husband, and herself narrowly escaping a similar fate.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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