POLLING BOOTHS IN UPROAR
LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FRANCE BAILIFFS. EXPELLED BY OFFICIALS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 18, 7.55 p.m.) PARIS, October 18. Many disorders occurred on the second day of the departmental council elections, especially at Marseilles, where the bailiffs appointed by the President of the Civil Tribunal were expelled from the booths by the Plsiding officers. Orders were given that only groups of five electors would be admitted at one time. In the absence of the bailiffs the booths became scenes of uproar. The police intervened, and as a consequence one candidate lodged a protest. At one booth a voter shot another in the head; the victim was taken to hospital and the attacker was arrested. Unable to agree with the other officials, the presiding officer at another booth picked up the ballot box and walked out with it under his arm.
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Southland Times, Issue 23334, 19 October 1937, Page 7
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