"RED" GIRL'S EXPLOITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

"RED" GIRL'S EXPLOITS.

THREATS OF SUICIDE.

Germaine Berton, " Red Germaine," the anarchist girl, who two years ago was accused of having killed Marius Plateau, chief of the Royalist newspaper, L'Action Fiancaise, is in the limelight again. Acquitted on the murder charge, arrested twice subsequently for anti-mili-tarist and anarchist propaganda, and sur-

viving a period of hunger-striking, 'she was recently seen to fall, as if (lying, in a Paris church.

The girl carried a letter addressed to tin; grandmother of the dead boy, Daudet, saying:— "I am going to die, madame, as Philippe died. Of his age and name I was at first ignorant. 1 do not feel imiiiv, T hope' you will pardon me. Philippe died for "me (shooting himself in ,i iuxi). It is but fitting that I should die for him."

In another letter, to tlie police, the girl | said she bad taken poison in Pere La(haisc Cemetery, but it was slow in actling. So she had tried to shoot herself. | but the revolver would not go off. Then j she went to die in the church. She had i two knives, one inscribed, " May my | wound be mortal." Doctors found no wound and no trace j uf poison.