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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1928.
THE COMEDY OF A TRAGIC COUNTESS.
GLOZEL.
او
ANGRY FRENCH
ACADEMICIANS.
CHARGES AND COUNTER- CHARGES.
PARIS, Jan. 1st. During the last few days the various actors in the comedy of Glozel" have censed to bombard the newspapers with letters in sup port of the views which they n continue passionately to hold. The lull is no doubt, however, only temporary, for Dr. Marlet, the Vichy physician, whose enthusiasni as an amateur archaeologist had at first been aroused by the stories of what had been discovered in the Geld of the Fradin family, and took a lease of the field a few years ngo, has hinted that he is about to publish some revelations which will
be sensational.
ON TRIAL IN PARIS.
„PUBLIC PROSECUTION“ PLEADS FOR PRISONER.
--PARIS....
There Was + dramatic and poignant dimax in the Correc- tonal Court, to the Paris shoot- ing drama, a which the pretty Countess Alice de Janzé (formerly Miss Alice Silverthoras, of Chi- cago) and Mr. Raymond de Trafford, youngest
son of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, of East bourne, were the chief characters.
The Countess was charged with assault and battery, as a sequel to the events at the Gare du Nord, Paris, of March tast, when she shot Mr. de Trafford in the London express as it was on the point of leaving the Gare du Nord here. She wfterwards, according so her own admission, turned her revolver upon herself. Both ahe and Mr. de Trafford were in hos pital for some time.
came
The most tense moment when it was suddenly announced that Mr. de Trafford had arrived from England and had volunteered
They must be hot headed gentle nier, these members of the Académic des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, which is at present the only one of the Ave Academies the Institut de France to have hitherto concerned itself with the question. M. Salomon Reinach, who presides over the meetings of that learned body, and 15 4 Glazelinn, began by suggesting to give evidence in the countess's that those whose interpretation of dalance. Speaking in halting the finds did not agree with his French, he accepted "full respon- own, had lunched too well on the day that they visited the excava-sibility tions; and the letter which he and M.. Loth, who will succeed him in the presidency, during the coming year, issued to the Press after the Publication of the unfavourable report of the international com· mission instead of refuting the ar guments of the commission, merely declared that its report would go down to history surrounded with an much ridicule as "that of the Roman Laquisition on the astrono- mical discoveries of Galileo.
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for what happened.
A Free Woman
After deribing his meeting with the countess Nairobi (Kenya), he said: "I asked her to marry me. When I came to see her in Paris I was determined to minrry her. After four days it Pariz, I returard and told my family. of my incauton My Jamily would not bear of it."
You ought to have found that out before you made this happy woman your mistress and ruined her life," said the judge.
"Yes" Aswered Mr. de Trafford, nodiling his hond quietly. that I could not marry har. Wa "I came to Paris and told her
had lunched on March 97th at the Restaurant Laprouse, and we did not talk much during luncheon
Whoge idea was it to go to the gun-smith's shop was the next question:
"The countess said she wanted. to buy something, but not wivt st Wak he answered."I was buy- ing some camp equipment at an- other counter, and I did not see her buy the revolver..
"We went next to the Gare du Nord and got into the train. We chatted on the platform and went to the bullet, where I told her again why I would not marry her. When we got back into the com- partinent we sat down and talked.
Suddenly I saw a revolver in ber band and I caught her arm. I did not think she was going to shoot me, but herself. A moment later the revolver went. "
"You accept the full respousi- bility for wint bas happened?" queried the judge,
"Yes, I do," answered. Mr. de Trafford.
The Public Prosecutor said it. was hard to charge a sick woman who had shot a man who had broken his promise to marry her A sentence of six months' im- after she had obtained a divorce prisonment with the benefit of the from her husband and left her two
Little children for him. He plead First Offenders' Act was passeded for pity for her, asking the upon the countess. This meant that she left the court a free, wo- man. A fine of 100 francs (10%) 1jd.) was also imposed.
When the trial opened the court was crowded. The spectators in eluded many fashionably dressed women wearing costly furs and jewels.
A Disguised Person.". The anti-Glozelians, on the other hand, have not been backward in A frail, gentle-faced, nervous girl the countess looked as she took national commission accuses no- ber sent in the welt of the court body of the fraud which it declares facing Maitre Findin, the preside to exist, and even explicitly gives ing Judge. She wore a modest Dr. Morlet a certificate of, good grey tailor made costume, a black faith. 11. Dussaud, An anti-felt cloche hat, and grey suede Glozelas member of the afore shoes. She carried a black hand-
entioned Academy, who had in bag and a grey, fur stole, augurated his campaign by ex- pressing his disbelief in an anony
The countess answered the
court to pass only the minimum
Bentence.
Matre Menetral, counsel for the countess, made a moving appeal to the court either to acquet his client or at least not to insert the word prison in any sentence which t might pass.
A Pathetic Lattez,
Couart Frederick de Fanzé,” he said, has written a pathetic letter to the examining mangiatruite, in which be holds forth the hopel that this unhappy wanan may still have the chance to see her two little children once more and that they will be able to call her their mo and their father their father.
But the Court de Tanzé ha "does not want it said went on, -that-his-wife-is-women-who-has
mother
mous letter, now boldly demand, judge's questions in hesitating been sentenced to a term of impri- !
that a prosecution shall be Institut rcd against the author of the hoax officially unknown, but whout M Dussaud not obscurely hints to be the seventeen-year-old peasant lad,
Emile Fradin
These are by no means all the accusations that have been dying about. Most of them come from the Glozelians. They allege, for instance, that their adversaries, not content with anonymous let ters, have stooped to forgery, and did publish a supposed telegram from the Portuguese scientist, Mendes-Correa, to the effect that his chemical analysis of some of the bones discovered proved them not to have been fossilised, where as the subsequent report of the aane scientist in in exactly the op- posite sense.
The anti-Glozelings prefer-07 87 the Glozelians think to rely upon innuendo. It has been hinted that M. Salomon Reinach is not a be ginner in gullibility, for he was largely responsible for the accep tance, a few years ago by the Louvre, of the notorious tiara af Sanitaphernes, which was after wards admitted to be a forgery.
M. Herriot Takes A Hand. Although many people will sup hose the controversy to be settled by the report of the International Commission, it is by no means over
tants and narrated her life story. She wna bona in Bufalo, U.S.A 27 years ago, the daughter of a millionaire, and marmed Count Frederick de "Janze in 1991.
Liaison And Divorce.
Her health was fragile, she said, and after the birth of the last of her two children it became so criti- cal that her doctors ordered her to Kenya Colony (East Africa), where she went with her husband. There she met Mr. de Trafford, who was on a big-game shooting expedition. She returned with her husband to Paris, but some time later had to return to Kenya. This. time she went alone and again met Mr. de Trafford at the home of friends. A friendship sprang up which culminated in, a iarna.
sonment. You hold a life, the future life of this poor woman and the happiness of her two little chil dren in your hands.
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He also declared that he thought it only right to say that Mr. de Trafford had retrieved, as far as be could, his reputation by coming forward to give evidence.
Her Big, Dark Eyes
PARIS.
The trial will be memorable for
the intensely tragic figure of the countess and for its poignant, and
dramatic momerits.
The Countes de Janzi, thin most to emaciation and with two big, dark eyes burning out of an dshen white face, made no attempt to shun her responsibility and she had not, a single word of reproach for Mr. Raymond de Trafford.
She was divorced from her hus- band and there followed the Gare
Her replies to the questions of du Nord tragedy in which she and the judge were expressed in ex Mr. de Trafford were seriously in-cellent French. She looked an in- jured.
carnation of her own medical his- tory; she has been consumptive from girlhood and is highly strung and impetuous.
-
The Public Prosecutor pleaded almost as much for the Countres de counsel did.- Janzé as her own
In a faint voice the countess told how she became the mistress of Mr. de Trafford after he had promised to marry her if she obtained a divorce. On March 9th, she add ed, Mr: de Trafford came to Paris from London and told her at dia-Reuter. ner that the projected wedding was impossible.
"I lack wortis to describe a vian who leaves the woman who has
Bant Forward To Kiss.
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in France. What, after all, compromised her life for him," i the patriotic Frenchman, this
terposed the judge. foreign body, nominated by a vague and by no means representa- Mainly in menosyllables the tive Congress of Anthropology at countree replied to the judge's Amsterdam Are we not capable questions. She described bow she of making our own investigations, lended it in the train, and hor ded are we not capable of making she shot Mr. de Trafford and then our own chemical analyses of herself. bones, instead of sending them to Oporto, which has already dealt
"I want to make it clear," she 66 with them, and Oslo, which is at said, when her evidence was finish- present engaged in doing so."
ed, that I was not angry with Besides, has not M. Herriot, the Mr. de Trafford, who was unhappy Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, taken advantage of the and as miserable ne law which entitles him to make understood why he could not keep such an historic site public. pro not intend to shoot him."
his promise to marry me. 120 perts! Has he not provisionally
classed it
"But you shot hian treacherous “historic monament "! for 11. provisionally," retorted the judge, just. period of six months? and bus. Le you bent forward to kiss him.' not announced that, after having "I had the revolver in my LAWN visited the site himself during the hand," returned the countess. "T recess, he will be prepared to reply wanted to kill myself. Mc. «de in a full dress debate on the sub-Trafford kissed me, and I do not ject after the Chambers return? really know what happened then. Consequently, although only one It was just like what I have read of the five Academics has as yet about people feeling when they are concerned itself with the question, drowning. MEM we shall soon see the others drawn
The Judge: You have it in your
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The Dance arranged for gave FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD,
in, beginning with the Academy of favour at last that your lover did Moral and Political Science, going not keep his promise to mazzy, you ca with that of Fine Arts, and and that you were in very ill- ending with the Academie Frna-
health!
Mr. De Trafford, FC Calvert & Co., Manchester, Englandaise itself. It remains to be sero whether the Academy of Science
then will be consulted on the way, but Mr. de Trafford perhaps some of the Academicians evidence. The more a black lounge the selves will need the attentions suit and a black tie and spoke of their colleagues of the Academy clearly, though his French was not
fluent of Medicine.
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