VENTED HER FEELINGS.
Woman’s Protest at Legal Procrastination. (Special to the " Star.”) LONDON, March 15. It is remarked in Paris that many persons who have had occasion to go to law in France will sympathise with Mine. Augustine Deharbe, an elderly widow, who discharged two blank cartridges outside the Law Courts in order to relieve her angry feelings. She wished to protest, she explained after her arrest, against legal delays in general and in particular against what she regards as the spirit of procrastination shown by her lawyer. Ten years ago she and her husband, a highlyplaced civil servant, started to build a house on land which they had purchased at Coeuilly-Champigny, near Paris. Almost from the beginning there appear to have been legal difficulties with the contractor, and when M. Deharle died three years ago his widow decided to carry the dispute before the Courts. This decision was brought her no satisfaction. The dispute is still as far as ever from being settled. And now a charge of carrying firearms illegally has been added to Mine. Deharbe’s juridical worries.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 740, 19 April 1933, Page 1
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180VENTED HER FEELINGS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 740, 19 April 1933, Page 1
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