MURDER OF A KING.
Queen Withdraws Charge- in France. FEARS FOR SON'S SAFETY. LONDON, October 13. The Belgrade correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that on the eve of the trial in France of three men accused of complicity in the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles on October 10 last year, Queen Marie has withdrawn her charge as a civil party to the case under French law. The Queen wrote a letter to M. PatilBoncour, who represented her in the preliminaries, stating that she would forgo any retribution for the assassination of her husband. She said her only aim was to assure that full light would be thrown on the crime, which intention had now been fulfilled. Nevertheless it is believed that the Queen's decision is due to the fear that in the event of the accused being sentenced to death, the boy King Peter might be murdered in revenge by the Balkan friends of the accused. The trial, which is being held at Aix-le-Provence, near Marseilles, also deals with the murder of M. Louis Barthou.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 8
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