STORY OF HATRED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 284, 1 November 1926, Page 7

STORY OF HATRED.

PARISIAN MURDER TRIAL. - \

PARIS, Oct. 30. A remarkable trial concluded-... with the imposition of the death sentence upon the wealthy Madame Lefebvre for the murder of her daughter-in-law. The crime revealed a story of avarice and hatred. The young wife hesitated before her marriage, but consented because she thought it' a good match. After that haggling occurred between the two families over the marriage settlement, over the wedding presents to be given, over the honeymoon and over the young wife’s expenditures. Madame Lefebvre always hated the girl’s family, and determined that no offspring of theirs should be a grandchild of hers. When she learned that the young wife was about,to become a mother, Madame invited the couple to accompany her on a drive in a motor car, and while out shot the girl dead with a revolver. Doctors refused to pronounce her insane. A curious feature of the trial was the son’s obvious fear, of his mother. It seemed that w'hile he was giving evidence he waited for her to prompt him as to what he should say. His chief anxiety, when he found that his wife was dead, was to make sure, that her jewelled ring was not lost. —A. and N.Z. cable.