UNWRITTEN LAW

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14610, 8 March 1922, Page 5

UNWRITTEN LAW

CRIMES TOO FREQUENT.

PUBLIC WEARY OF ACQUITTALS, /

■ress Association—Electric '-telegraph— Copyright (Received Wednesday, 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, Tuesday.

The public is growing weary of the acquittals in the crime cases arising out of passions such as the Perron case.

It is realised that these crimes are too frequent, are committed with too much impunity, and that there is an undue tendency to regard the authors as heroes and heroines.

Superficial newspaper comment on the subject is recognised as disguising a serious warning.

Maurice Prax inquires why the use of cardboard targets for revolver practice when the wife is handy. Devotees of the chase are a favoured race because there is no close season for wives. The time is coming when the sportsman will be asked if he had had “any luck this morning,” and will reply, “Rotten; 1 missed the wife twice with a new double-barrelled gun.” Another commentator suggests relieving overworked judges by altering the ynarriage code, permitting one party to put the other to death for infidelity, with a distinct understanding that the neighbours are not to be disturbed. These suggestions, however, are already rendered out of date by Madame Motteau, who, objecting to her husband coming home intoxicated and threatening to punch her, put four bullets into his head, donned her hatj and repiorted the affair to the nearest police station. :—The Times. •

(A cable on stated: Interest was aroused by the trial of Madame Perron, a pretty actress and singer, who was accused of murdering her husband, who was director of the Bordeaux Theatre, and in which the “unwritten law” figured. Prisoner gave evidence that her husband visited the Dijon Theatre and fell in love with the daughter of a Dijon director. Repeated efforts made by Madame Perron to induce the girl to leave her husband failed. Madame Perron then took a pistol from her vanity bag and fired three times, killing her husband. She was acquitted.)