BIG DAMAGES CLAIM

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11

BIG DAMAGES CLAIM

Madame de Fontange Sues U.S.A.

(Independent Cable Service.) PARIS, December 7. Madame Magda de Fontange will shortly launch a five million francs damages claim against the Government for having “caused her exclusion from the United States on the ground of moral turpitude.” Madame de Fontange, a former actress and journalist, shot the Comte de Chambrun, former French Ambassador to Rome, on a platform of the Gare du Nord in Paris in March, 1937. She was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, which was suspended under the First Offenders Act, and fined 100 francs. When she arrived in the United States of America in November, 1937. a board of inquiry decided that she should be excluded because of the “commission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, an assault with a dangerous weapon.”