MODERN LUCREZIA

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 5

MODERN LUCREZIA

WOMAN POISONS FATHER

DEATH SENTENCE PASSED

SCENES IN FRENCH COURT

SENSATIONAL PARRICIDE

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Paris, Oct. 12.

"I curse my father and mother—it is shameful,” shrieked Violette Nozieres, whom the newspapers described as a modern Lucrezia Borgia, rushing from the dock after listening to the death, sentence for poisoning her father, to which she pleaded guilty. _ In a sensational three-day trial the prosecution alleged that Violette, who is 19 years old and ultra modern, desired to kill her parents to inherit their money. On a pretence of administering medicine she poured poison into their glasses and handed them to her parents. Her father died almost immediately and the mother lay for hours struggling for life. Meanwhile Violette had taken £25 and gone to a night club. She returned in the morning, turned on Ihe gas taps and told the con&erge that her parents had committed suicide. The defence pleaded that Violette killed her father because he ill-treated her and forbade her marrying her lover. The mother in. evidence said the accusation against the father was abominably false. Finally the mother withdrew the civil plaint, which she said was brought to clear her husband’s memory. She declared she forgave everything and pleaded for her daughter’s acquittal. When the jury returned a verdict of guilty, Violette shouted: "I don’t want to die.” The French sentence for parricide Includes that the murderer be paraded barefooted in a white garment with the head veiled before the crowd prior to the execution.