FRENCHMAN’S FATE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 5

FRENCHMAN’S FATE.

THE MURDERER VAQUIER

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 30.

M. Herriot's entourage emphatically deny M. Herriof interceded on behalf of Vaquier. The French Government will not interfere with British justice. M. Herriot, however, sent a personal letter to Mr. Henderson, asking that the fullest consideration be given ,to any extenuating circumstances.

The Daily Chronicle’s legal correspondent says : Vaquier was proved guilty on the clearest evidence, but public opinion is disturbed, and the feeling is that Vaquier is alone bearing the consequences of the crime. The public is not satisfied that- full justice is being meted out.

Pierre Vaquier, a French wireless operator, admittedly the admirer of Mrs Jones, poisoned the drink of Alfred Poynter Jones, licensee of the Blue Anchor Hotel at Bvfieet. He was sentenced to death, and on being sentenced made an impassioned speech declaring that a. foreigner could get. no justice in England, the judge countering the accusation by saying that, on the contrary, the British Bench was even more particular in regard to the administration of justice to foreigners than to British-born. The whole case presented a most sordid aspect, it being a commonplace for orgies to be held in the inn.