SHOOTING OF AIRMAN
DRAMA WHILE FLYING RE-ENACTMENT FOR COURT PARIS, July 7 Madame Irene Schmeder-Chapellut, who, it is alleged, shot at and wounded M. Lallemant, a French airman, while they were flying in an aeroplane last December, to-day took part in a reconstruction of the mid-air shooting. The aeroplane, bearing traces of a forced landing, was brought out from Villacoublay aerodrome. Madame Schmeder-Chapellut climbed into the cockpit behind M. Lallemant in the presence of the magistrates. While counsel questioned her for more than an hour she re-enacted before the crowd of spectators how she had brandished a hammer and held her revolver. Her voice was shaken with sobs, until she was overcome, and let the revolver fall at the magistrates' feet. Later counsel, in a flying helmet and with parachute, went up in another aeroplane to check his client's statements. Madame Schmeder - Chapellut c'ollapsed on entering the car to return to prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22779, 13 July 1937, Page 9
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