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H/JJHTA.RV CELL FOB WOMAN. EKBATJC F KEXCU JUSTICE. Tlu’i'e is considerable comment cm the erratic: character of French justice as seen in the Versailles Court. Lady Owen, the Jo-year-old Frencdi widow of in English knight, the late Sir Theoiore Owen, who left her a substantial fortune, was sentenced to live year’s solitary confinement for wounding with a icvolver the wife of a former lover, Dr. Gastuud, in a fit of insane jealousy when G a stand refused to leave her. Iv, en the French Press attacks tin sac age nature of the sentcni e, and distances a whole siring of actual murders in similar circumstances where the a-. 'used were acqui (ted. There is a distinct folding that the court was influenced by the fact that Sir 'Theodore Owen was English. Solitary confinement in France is carried out very strictly. The prisoner does nut speak or see anyone.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 2 March 1931, Page 4
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150SAVAGE SENTENCE Patea Mail, Volume LII, 2 March 1931, Page 4
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