AMNESTY GRANTED
NOTED FRENCH EXILE PARIS, Dec.. 27. M. Leon Daudet, who has been exded in Belgium for three years, will celebrate the new year .at his Paris home. The Tardieu Government lias granted him an amnesty on his sentence for criminal libel and escape from gaol in June, 1927. M. Leon Daudet, the proprietor of L’Action Francaiso, the Royalist newspaper, was the centre of a series of Paris sensations in 1927. Ho was found guilty of libelling a taxi-driver, in whose cab iiis son had been found shot. Daudet refused to surrender to the polico, but after some time gave himself up. Then followed what is regarded as ono of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetuated upon the police. One of Daudet’s Royalist friends, using a Ministerial telephone, communicated with the police and ordered Daudet’s release. The order was complied with, and Daudet definitely eluded the police and went to reside in Belgium.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17144, 28 December 1929, Page 5
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153AMNESTY GRANTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17144, 28 December 1929, Page 5
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