SPIES DURING THE WARTIME
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SISTERS. FRENCH INSURANCE FRAUD CASE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Jan. 25. Georges Sarret, when informed feat his appeal against fee sentence of death had been rejected, made revelations which ad previously been hinted but withheld. He declared that the sister's Schmidt were employed during the wartime as spies against France. The authorities are impressed with the story, which involves a prolonged investigation. Katherine and Philomene Schmidt, beautiful German sisters, who married , two Frenchmen, who mysteriously disappeared, and Georges Sarret, a suave, middle-aged Italian-born lawyer of Greek parentage, long domiciled in France, were convicted on a series of serious charges. With accomplices they defrauded insurance companies by taking policies on the lives of people who disappeared. The three principals disposed of the .bodies of two of their victims by dissolving them in a bath of sulphuric acid. Sarret was sentenced to death and the Schmidt sisters to penal servitude for life. Sarret appealed against his sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1934, Page 7
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