SEQUEL TO EXPULSION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21215, 9 December 1938, Page 9

SEQUEL TO EXPULSION

DAMAGES CLAIM PENDING MADAME DE FRONTANGES IN COURT Onlted Press Association—By Kler-irlc / Telegraph- ri.’pyrlght (Received December 8, 6.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 7. Madame Magda de Fontanges will shortly launch a claim for 5,000,000 francs damages i against the Government for having "caused her exclusion from the United States on the ground of moral turpitude.” Madame de Fontanges, a former actress and journalist, shot the Comte de Chambrun, former French Ambassador to Rome, on the platform of the Gare due Nord, in Paris, in March, 1937. She alleged that he had interrupted a romance with someone, supposed to be Signor Mussolini. At her trial on charges of non-declaration of the possession of firearms she was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, but the sentence was . suspended under the First Offenders’ Act. She was also fined one hundred francs. When she arrived at New York early in November of last year the Ellis Island authorities detained her. and a Board of Inquiry excluded her from the United States because of “the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit. an assault with a dangerous weapon.”