FRENCH MURDER CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 5

FRENCH MURDER CASE

GUYGT'S GOHVIGTIOH AN APPEAL PROBABLE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 24. (Received July 25, at 8.30 a.m.) A dramatic scene marked the conclusion of tho Guyot case in Paris. The court was crowded with fashionablydressed women. ' M. Mi Iliac, for the prosecution, painted a lurid picture of Guyot’s life, liis love of gambling, which led to a loss of over 1,000,000 francs, and his love intrigues, and the final gamble to get rid of his mistress in order to marry his sister-in-law.

While counsel was making a fervent appeal Guyot rose, and, _ with _ outstretched arras, cried: “ 1 didn’ t wish to kill her. lam innocent.”

. The foreman of the jury had just read the verdict, adding that there wore no extenuating circumstances, when Gnyot’.s counsel sprang up and announced that ho had just received a telegram from a new witness, a Paris dressmaker, who claimed that she passed the motor car at the moment <s| Guyot’s fatal grip. Tho judge rejected an appeal for an adjournment, and passed a sentence of death by the guillotine. Ho also awarded the victim's mother 50,000 francs.

Guyot was so shaken that, sobbing, he had to he carried nut from the court. An appeal is certain nu the ground of the new testimony available.