LOVER SHOT
DRIVEN TO CRIME BY FEAR. PARIS, June 8. Camille Tharault, who was once a Paris beauty queen and model, told the Versailles Court how she shot dead her lover, Henri Pelissier, tbe French eye ling champion. Between sobs, she said that Pelissier at dinner a year ago lost his temper and attacked her sister and herself. He held a revolver at her head, and heat her unconscious with a soupladle.
When she recovered, she heard her sister being attacked in the kitchen, and thought Pelissier would kill her. “I seized the revolver he had left on the table, and fired. I did not mean to kill him. He was really a good man, and I loved him. I fired because I was afraid,” she said. Camille was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, with the benefit of the First Offenders’ Act, which means that she will not go to jail.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1936, Page 6
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