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FRENCHMAN ACQUITTED ON THEFT ,OHARGE. JURY ACCEPTS EXCUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Juno 30. At the quarter sessions, a young Frenchman, charged with stealing a suitcase containing a lady’s clothing, paffiionately pleaded with the judge and jury to forget that they were British and try to see with tho eyes of a Frenchman. In his country, it was nothing for a young man to be chased by gendarmes because he had | climbed perhaps to the window of his j lady to say good-night. The French mind worked quite differently from the English. It wa's quite true that !ho took tho articles; but he did so i hecauso he loved the lady, and he took : ihem to prevent her going out with j any othci man. judges Sc-holes told the jury that, in spite of the strangeness of tile deI feme, it was entirely worthy of conj sideration. ! The jury acquitted the accused.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 6
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