FRENCH TRIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 303, 20 November 1935, Page 8

FRENCH TRIAL.

INCIDENTS IN COURT

MARSEILLES, Nov. 18. The proceedings at the trial of three Croats who are alleged to have been accomplices of Petrus Kelemen, the assassin of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and M. Barthou, in October, 1934, were further dislocated when Maitre Desbons objected to an interpreter, and the sittings were suspendcd for an hour in order to enable the matter to be referred to the Minister of Justice at Paris. The Judge returned to court and threatened to punish Maitre Desbons for rudeness, but permitted the appointment of a fresh interpreter. Kralj admitted that he belonged to the Oustacha, but said he refrained from violence on the day of the Royal procession, though he was armed with two bombs, a pistol and a revolver, being deterred by the presence of so many innocent people. The absentee accused are Dr. Pavelitcli, supposed leader of the gang, Eugen Pavelitch, his lieutenant, and Yvan Percovitch, an alleged paymaster. A missing witness is an attractive blonde, Marie Voudrosch, who is alleged to have supplied weapons to the conspirators. The Court adjourned.

WRANGLING CONTINUES

COUNSEL SUSPENDED

Received November 20, 9.35 a.m. AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Nov. 19. More wild legal wrangling twice disturbed the trial of the terrorists. Ihe Judge, public prosecutor, and counsel for the defence (M. Desbons) engaged in a violent harangue, ending in the prosecutor’s request for M. Desbons’s expulsion, not oply from the Court, but from the Bar. Ihe sitting was suspended, after which it was announced that M. Desbons hau been expelled from both.