POISON TRIAL IN FRANCE
WOMAN INNKEEPER ACQUITTED
(Rec. 8 p.m.) PERPIGNAN (France), Jan. 20. Marguerite Marty, a 30-year-old French hotelkeeper, who was acquitted in a Perpignan Court early today of poisoning the wife of a man alleged to be her lover, said she was so exhausted, and still so upset after 15 months in gaol awaiting trial that she had asked permission to sleep one more night in the cell while she calmed down. A jury found her not guilty after an 80-minute retirement. The verdict was cheered by those in the Court. Marty had pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering her own cousin, Jeanne, Candela, by giving her poison in a thermos flask of coffee. The case aroused intense interest throughout France, particularly over allegations that Marty had been brutally beaten up by the police during questioning. She alleged she had been cuffed and that her hair had been pulled. The- police, she said, kept repeating: “Confess, you criminal. Confess, you poisoner.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27563, 21 January 1955, Page 11
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