STAVING OFF DEATH
NEGRO UNDER SENTENCE
FEATURE OP FRENCH LAW
Australian Press Association. (Received 17th July, 2 p.m.)
PARIS, 16th July, ■ka i ortune, a negro dancer, who was sentenced to death for murder, succeeded m putting off the day of executioa l>y getting himself sentenced to two years imprisonment at the Paris AsSlZe'l \ tcali"S Os- La Fortune's lawyer brought up the trivial misdemeanour ,m order to obtain delay of death senm"Th, fhe "?S ro h!ls ">e right to apmonth v • IS., CanilOt be for thr£> months. Cis thus certain of at least three months' lease of life or two years Prn \ P l Ot appeaI> for und« the French law he must serve his term of imprisonment before he can be executed.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1929, Page 10
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