VILLAGE TERRORISED.
THREATENING LETTERS. MUCH MISERY CAUSED. FRENCH WIDOW ARRESTED. LONDON, Marcli 18. Tile Daily News’s Paris correspondent states that the police have arrested Julienne Le Faure, a widow, aged 40 years, on a charge of writing 1000 anonymous letters during the last four years, so terrorising the village of Consignant. The letters wrecked homes, prevented marriages, sundered friendships, and caused many to emigrate. Letters were found daily on window-sills, on church benches, in horse troughs, under bushes, or pushed under doors at dusk. One farmer was threatened unless lie deposited 1000 francs at the base of an oak tree. He refused, after which his farmhouse was burned down. Another farmer was. warned to leave the village. He refused, after which his children received poisoned sweets. Later his cattle, sheep, and poultry were poisoned. Tho farmer bolted. Tho plague of letters increased, and more farms were burned and stock poisoned. Since the woman’s arrest tho letters have ceased.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 92, 16 March 1927, Page 2
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