FRENCH COURT CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 10

FRENCH COURT CASE.

MINOR CHARGES LAID. Received July 24, 12.5 p.m. ■ PARIS, July 23. Madame de Fontagnes has been indicted and will stand her trial in the Correctional Court on charges of nondeclaration of the possession of firearms. Reporting to a Magistrate on June 28 two doctors expressed the opinion that Mme de Fontagnes, who was then alleged to have shot and wounded tho Count de Chambrun, formerly French Ambassador to Rome, at the Gare du Nord, in March, was of sound mind. A third declared that she was unbalanced and if loft at liberty might repeat tho shooting, and recommended that she be detained in an institution:" Madame de Fontagne, former actress and journalist (who said her real name was de la Ferriere), declared when arrested that tho count had caused her to bo separated from “a very high personage” whom she had previously interviewed for her newspaper and whose love she had possessed. Madame de Fontagne had interviewed Signor Mussolini, anti 300 photographs of him wero found in her flat, together with a., journal which was. confiscated by the police. She said that after she had told tho count in confidence about her romance sho found herself unable to see Signor Mussolini again and was informed that the French Embassy had something to do with this turn of events.