MURDER OF A BARONESS.

Mataura Ensign, 14 December 1911, Page 5

MURDER OF A BARONESS.

Captain Maurice Meynier. the. selfconfessed murderer of his fiancee, th. Baroness d'Ambricourt, was on Ociohc • 80 sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude by the Seine Assize Court. The proceedings were remarkable lor a speech of seldom equalled violence delivered against ihe prisoner by Mailrc Paisant, who represented the daughie: of the Baroness d'Anibrioourt by iie; first husband. "You are young," he said, addressing iho prisoner. "Vor were an officer. You might have allowed those expressive eyes of yours rr speak for you. The court would sureh have understood. You might have crlei 1 'I killed through love.' But no, io de fend yourself you were ready to (lis honor a woman. That- is why I static before you, you who, with the coward' 1 \ selfishness of the criminal, tried to be smudge tin; ms'inory of your victim."