SHOOTING ON BARGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1937, Page 8

SHOOTING ON BARGE

MAN-WOMAN’S DEFENCE.

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PARIS, December 28

Vuoletto Morris, who shot a man, on a barge, figured in a test case in Paris in 1930, when she claimed damages from the French Women’s Sporting Federation for its expulsion of her, because she played tennis and other sports clad in trousers. The Court dismissed her suit, on the ground that the wearing of trousers by women in society, and by young girls, was out of place, and was not to be encouraged. The woman Morris had dressed like a man for years, on the ground that it was essential to her athletic activities.

The victim of the shooting was Joseph'Le Camps. He had celebrated Christmas Day at a fashionable Neuilly restaurant in company with Voulette Morris and Baron and Baroness DetroBriand. They all separated good friends, but Le Camps, next evening, visited Voulette Morris’s houseboat, which was moored in the Seine. He accused her of creating a misunderstanding between him and the. Baron and Baroness. Le Camps then left, but he again’ returned. This time he met his death by shooting. Morris declared that she shot him because he had threatened to throw her overboard.