MYSTERY CRIMES
PARIS ALARMED Prisoners Often Acquitted on Passion Plea PUBLIC ANXIETY INCREASING. .By lei?R*-aph—Per Freas A««n.—CcpyrigL't.j Received March 1, 8.10 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) PARIS, March 1. There has been an extraordinary series of crimes, the mystery of which is terrifying the public. There are no fewer than live crimes reported in to-day’s papers, including the finding of a carbonised body at Melun. There has been a horrible murder of a woman newsvendor in Paris. Her skull was smashed in by some iron instrument in her shop in broad daylight. Last week a man shot his wife dead because she refused to make him a cup of coffee in the middle of the night. Public anxiety is increased by the failure of the police to track criminals in several cases, and because juries are acquitting murderers whose guilt was plain, readily accepting counsel’s emotional appeals that the crime was an act of passion. Three accused whom the police were confident of convicting were acquitted yesterday, causing Le Temps to make a strong plea for an immediate reform of the jury system.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20085, 2 March 1928, Page 7
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