ALLEGATION OF MURDER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 422, 13 June 1922, Page 6

ALLEGATION OF MURDER.

MOTHER AND DALOHTER CHAHOEiyj REECSAL TO REVEAL HECTiET. By Elect rio Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Juno 12, 12.40 p.m. PARIS, June 10. 1 Madatpe Bes.-arbo and her (laughter, by her ln-,1 husband, are being tried tor the alleged murder ot the lormcr’s second husband and packing the body in a trunk ana sending it Irom Paris to Nancy, where it was discovered in the lost properly olhce. The mother is aged 50 and is lairly "ell known a, a poetess and writer <T romances. Blie is also suspected of murdering her lu,t husband. There have been several incidents during the Inal, such as the women bleak iug down during the judge s examination mid shrieking “.Spare my mother am. “Spare my daughter.” .1 he poetess once admitted the nutnlet to the police, hut said she did so in order to save her daughter from being sent to Bt--I,azure prison, where women of the stieet are sent.—A. and N.Z. cable. PARIS, June 11. Insinuating that she loves the actual murderer, and will -acrilice herself n tieus. sary to shield him, Mademoiselle Jacques resisted the prolonged appeals ol the judge and her own counsel to reveal her seel el. Tremblingly she told the judge • -.' mother told me the whole trull* when I seemed to be at the point oi death ; 1 refuse to reveal it.” . , The judge then appealed to the mot net • “For the last time, will you -peak.' I The mother replied : “We are nut guilty, but 1 will accuse nobody. The police themselves believe that an unknown man is implicated.—A. and N.Z. cable. MATTED PROTEST their innocence. Received June 12. 11.40 a.in. LONDON, June 10. The Bessarho trial has been marked by 'sensational scenes, the motherland daughter .protesting their innocence in Hoods o vituperative eloquence, which judge and counsel were powerless to quell. Madame Bessarbo angrily denied allegations ol past loose conduct, del'ming her relati'lns with men a.- .-pintmil liaison-. The tensest moment of the trial was when the judge asked how the trunk conI mining her hu.-baiid's corpse came to leave ! the house. I Madame made a long explanation, con'eluding: “1 did not kill toy husband; do wliiu you like with me.” , 1 The "judge then examined Ihe danglner, who said: “1 cannot speak freely; there is ;i secret iu this, and if 11 was revealed it would completely alter the case. Madame, fixing intent eyes on her daughter. hereupon exclaimed m Spanish: 1 lotbid you to say anything.