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JUSTICE IN MODERN FRANCE.

THE SENTIMENTAL

JURY PROBLEM.

MISSING PRISONERS.

Paris, Aug. 7.

It is a rather grave symptom that the confidence of the French people in the administration of justice is shaken in several direc- tions.

SATURDAY

GASSED WIFE AND

DAUGHTERS.

HUSBAND ON SUDDEN

"BRAINWAVE."...

A theory that the tragedy was the result of "a sudden brainwave. or sudden Impulse" on the part of his wife was put forward by the husband at the inquest recently. on Mrs. Anne Newman, 44, and her daughters, Janet Mary New- man, 19, and Frances Ednn New- man, 16, who were found gassed in their bedroom at Malden-road, Kentish Town, N.W.

"Mr. Thomas Alexander Newman, the husband, who carries on haberdashery and toy shop in Malden-road, said he had been married 21 years. The younger girl was at school and the other was 1 shorthand typist. Both were happy, healthy girls.

There is a lack of confidenco.in the jury system. The case with which an emotional advocate can persuade a jury tq, acquit à mur- derer if only the excuse of passion can be pleaded continues to be the subject of various kinds of com- meat. The other day Henry Bordeaux, of the Academie Fran- caise, wrote an article in the Echo de Paris in which he sugJuly 30," he said.

"I went away to Clacton an gested that much of this trouble

"I was going has arisen since the law of 1884 to return on August 6. My first made divorce possible in France Intimation of the tragedy was a and loosened the bonds with which newspaper placard."

a more severe Catholic morality The Coroner (Mr. Danford surrounded the sexual relatio. Thomas): What is your opinon? It may be stated in parenthesisThat it was a sudden brainwave that divorces between Americans or impulse

In Paris have become so numerous wife. that from next October onwards a special section of the French Courts, under the presidency of M. Rieul Paisant, will be devoted exclusively to their hearing.

on the part of my

F

To end her life?-I can only take it as that. I had very nice letters from her.

What about the daughters? All I can say is" they were the essence of happiness.

been

M. Bordeaux frankly regrets the passage of the divorce law from the point of view of the children and the future of the race. He do you mean to say that your wife When you suggest a brainwave, also argues that it has led to the was not of sound mind? I don't increase rather than the diminu think she could have been at the tion of murderous attacks of jeal-time. When I went away she was ous wives, husbands, mistresses, perfectly happy. It must have and lovers upon those who have been unfaithful to them and upon

something sudden. Sho those who have shared the infideli-ever suggested it to me in any ty. The removal of all moral and

shape or form. religious sanction has left the in- stincts uncontrolled, and the sentimentality of juries, gulded by Miss Gertrude Wilkins, a nurse no moral or religious standard, who lived with the Newmans, has yielded to every appeal to un- said: "Mrs. Newman and her reasoning pity. It is false, he daughters on Thursday night declares, to say that civilisation went to see 'Princess Charm- alone conduces to the repressioa ing. The three came to from the of the natural instincts. On the theatre just after midnight and contrary, it develops the appetites Mrs. Newman said, 'We have had in the same measure as materiala lovely time, but oh! I am tired.' prosperity makes it more easy to satisfy them.

Mother On the Floor.

"When Mr. Newman was away the mother and daughters slept in the same bed. They were real chums together, and it was a nice and delightful family."

the tragedy on the following marn-. Describing how she discovered ing. Miss Wilkins sald:

No Summing Up. For this state of things several practical remedies have been sug- gested. The summing up by the Judge, which in England to some extent limits the sentimental pro-: clivities. of juries, does not exist The bedroom was full of escap- in France, and the last words Ing gas. Mrs. Newman was on which the jury hears before retir-the floor with her feet against the ing are those of the advocate for door. I turned the gas off at the the defence. The assimilation of bracket. There was no tube to French to British practice in this the gas stove, and I don't know matter is one of the possible re- whether. I turned that off. The medies. Another is to give a jury, electric light globe was burning. which hesitates to condemn to death, the power to infllet, a lighter sentence, short of actual acquittal:

Miss Wilkins said that Janet was lying as if asleep and the younger girl was "nestled down in bed with her hands together on her cheek." The windows open four inches from the top.

were

Miss

The sentimentality of juries is not, however, the only trouble. The sensational escape of M. Leon Daudet and his two companions is

The coroner questioned Miss not the only recent example of the Wilking regarding an occasion last case with which the administra- year when Mra. Newman and her tion of French prisons can be daughters narrowly escaped being hoaxed, or of its laxity when it is gassed in the same room. not hoaxed. Newspaper readers Wilking said, that. Janet then said remember stories of the way into her, "I got up to get a cup which the prisoners at Versailles of ten, and, becoming very tired, went into town, to take their I went back to bed while the kett! aperitif at a cafe, and similar was boiling." incidents at other places. The other day there was a case at the 13me Chambre Correctionelle which had to be postponed twice over because one of the prisoners, nominally detained at the Sante, could not be found.

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a

bruise on Mrs. Newman's right Dr. F. Pelly said there was

death, probably the result of her elbow, caused shortly before falling. He thought that she foll while attempting to get to the door. She might have tripped over the gas tubing and discon-. nected it. There

not the careful preparation usually made in cases of suicide by coal-gas

Was

So much for criminal justice. It can hardly be said that the posi- tion is better in civil cases. It is poisoning. difficult indeed for an honest man to secure the protection of the law

P.C. King said that last year, against a swindler. It would per::

when the mother and daughters haps be more true to say that it suffered from an escape of gas, is very easy for a swindler to they lay for 88 hours with the make use of the formalities and window shut and gas escaping delays of the law to prevent an slightly from the ring.

honest man from obtaining justice The coroner recalled the hus against him. I myself know of a band and said to him: "You case of an honest trader not only have now heard all the evidence. falling to obtain redress, but lasting over two hours. Now finding himself accused of fraud what is your opinion about all by a man who had swindled him this?"

in a way so obvious that doubt

seemed, hardly possible; but the

Mr. Newman: I hardly know

recent case of M. Francois Caty, what opinion to form. All I can say is that I left her perfectly normal.

the millionaire proprietor of the "Figaro," is eloquent enough. In his position, one would have

thought, it should not be difficult Ho aded: "There are signs f to obtain rapid justice. It has, i sanity in my wife's family. One however, taken him more than ten of her sisters, book her own life." years to put end to an The jury returned a verdict obviously fraudulent proceeding.

of Death by Misadventure.

an

M. Francois Caty is the pro-

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prietor of the world-famous brand cial value of his name. He even of perfumes. A certain Ernest established a branch in the United Coty, whose name, rather than his States; but American justice in face, was his fortune, found capitalist in Turkey was ready French, and M. Francols Coty was this case was more rapid than to supply perfumes. and finance able, in little more than a month, the sales for an Ernest Coty brand to put an end to the fraudulent of scent, with the surname in activities of his competitor. large and the Christian name in very small letters of the man who had never dealt in scent until he suddenly discovered the commer-

My

He has at last succeeded in To- ing the same in France, but it has taken him ten years.

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