WIFE HORRIBLY MURDERED
LOSS IX DEAL MADDEXS GROCER MORE ERRATIC PREXCH JUSTICE Another sidelight on Erench justice was furnished in the same; court where Lady Owen was sentenced. Louis Lefert, a grocer, aged OS. was charged with the murder of his wife. He admitted that he slashed her to death with a razor, but declared he could not imagine why he hilled her. He loved his wife dearly, but was overwrought 1 1 y a loss of £2OO in a business deal. The jury accpiitted him without leaving the box.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 4
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90WIFE HORRIBLY MURDERED Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 4
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