FRENCH JUSTICE?
A SAVAGE SENTENCE ENGLISHWOMAN’S CRIME (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Feb. 2G, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. There is considerable comment upon the erratic, character of French justice. At the Versailles court, Lady Owen, the 35-year-old French widow of an English knight, Sir Theodore, who left her a substantial fortune, was sentenced to five years’ solitary confine* moult for wounding with a revolver shot the wife of a former lover, Dr. Gastauil, in a fit of insane jealousy, when Gastauil refused to leave her. The three days’ trial was more in the nature of comic opera in which it was shown that Lady Owen paid the expenses of Gastaud on his visits to London and the Riviera, and showered him with presents. Even the French press attacks the savage nature of the sentence, and instances a whole string of actual murders in similar circumstances where the accused people have been acquitted. There is a distinct feeling that the count was influenced by the fact that Lady Owen is English. Solitary confinement in France is most strictly carried out A prisoner does not speak to or see anyone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 11
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