ABDUCTORS GAOLED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 26 February 1941, Page 4

ABDUCTORS GAOLED

HUSBAND AND WIFE TEN YEARS FOR MAN ■ '• MONTREAL, Jan. 15. Sentences totalling 30 ; years were imposed by Judge Langlois on a young couple convicted- of charges of sequestration, theft with violence and grievous assault on a 26-year-old woman whom they held for 36 hours last April. The 30-year-old husband and his 20-year-old wife will, however, serve only 10 years and three years respectively since the three terms they each received will be served concurrently. The prisoners are Francois Desnoyers and his wife, who gave their address as 581 Beaudry street. Desnoyers was sentenced to 10 years each on the sequestration and theft with violence charges and to two years on the grievous assault count. His wife was sentenced to three years on each of the first two accusations and two years on the third. The charges were preferred after Desnoyers met Miss Helene Desjardins, 26, in a restaurant on Dor- 1 eestor street east last April, and induced her to go to the Beaudry street house after her that he lived there with hIS sister. On arrival there his wife appeared and she and the husband attacked Miss Desjardins, beat lier with a leather strap and a pair of shoes with stcelcovered heels after undressing her. They kept her in the house for 36 hours during which they subjected her to other abuse and ill-treatment, before throwing her out without returning her ring and other jewellery, and her purse.