CLOWNING IN COURT
FORMER DEPUTY'S CONDUCT JUDGE REDUCED TO IMPOTENT FURY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, April 24. Spectators at the Rioum Assizes were prostrated with mirth at the clowning of a former deputy, Philbert Besson, who was charged with stealing a legal document. Bessou took charge of the proceedings, loudly quarrelling with counsel, challenging several witnesses to duels, and reducing the judge to impotent fury. He dazed the court with a tissue of irrelevancies, and stated that the missing document was in the possession of General Franco, who was too busy to attend. He offered to strip and display his war wounds, after which he asked permission to demonstrate a conjuring trick. A witness declared that Besson was inordinately vaim and hotheaded and a hoaxer, hut was sane. A doctor. gravely agreed that these traits were compatible with the profession of politics. The case collapsed when Besson, grinning broadly, produced the missing document and - was acquitted.
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Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 8
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157CLOWNING IN COURT Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 8
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