TOUCHING MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 9

TOUCHING MEETING

PARTIES IN SHOOTING CASE

"NEVER INTENDED TO CHARGE HER"

(Received March 6, 1.20 p.m.)

PARIS, March 5.

There was a touching scene when Mile. Irene Schmeder and Pierre Lallemant met in the examining Magistrate's room for the first time since the shooting incident. Mile. Schmeder sobbed, "Forgive me," and Lallemant replied: "With all my heart." He added that he had never -intended to charge her. He admitted that.Mile. Schmeder had threatened to commit suicide, but he did not take her seriously.

A cable published on December 21 stated that an aeroplane landed in a field near Trappes, in France, but took off again as passing motorists found the pilot with a bullet wound in the neck. It was stated that a woman passenger, as a result of a love quarrel, shot him in the back. Both had quitted the machine on landing, but the woman re-entered and flew off. A later message stated that their names were Pierre Lallemant and Mile. Schmeder Chapellut, joint owners of the aeroplane. Mile. Chapellut later crashed in Surrey, and was arrested, on instructions from the French authorities, on a charge of attempted murder. In the course of a previous examination, Mile. Schmeder told the Magistrate that she informed Lallemant in November that she was an expectant mother. Owing to the brutal manner in which he received the news, she decided to commit suicide, but changed her mind in mid-air and shot him. She did not intend to kill him. She and Lallemant had been intimate for some time, although she was aware that he was married. He not. only broke his promise to divorce his wife and marry her but paid attention to another woman whose letters' Mile. Schmeder Chapellut found in his pocket.