The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-23
KILLING IS OVERLOOKED
Guns Are Sold on Time Payments But
II is Dangerous to Commit
Some Petty
Crime.

PARIS, March 22.-The vagaries o,
Justice in France have resulted in a
vigorous campaign against judges and
1uries and newspapers and demand
ing immediate reforms.
Recent trials and subsequent YER
dicts seem to prove that /. is safer
to assassinate your husband or wife
than trap bird
Or, that 1t is far more dangerous
to shoot at a person, and miss, than
to bore him or her through the heart
or head
Or that it is far cheaper,-and
equally as safe,-to buy an automatic
gun and Stay your husband or wire
than get divorce; and much quicker.
Nine. Laurence Bloch, a French
woman of letters, angered because
| her husband deserted her to pass his
time with Mrs. Minnie Bridgman, an
! American woman living in Paris,
bought revolver and killed her rival
She was acquitted, her trial lasting
part OF one afternoon.
! Gustav Durand, a Paris laborer
thought i. funny to put glue on paper
and catch sparrows in the Trocadero
| gardens. He was arrested, tried, and
given term in prison.
On the following day a young NAH
who had shot and nearly killed CIR,
/ whose company he had been fond or
was tried and acquitted. while almost
next door, In another court room, a
ledger who played joke on q neigh.
Dor in an apartment house, taking
| his door from the hinges, got three
! months for his laugh.
On January Z, Paris bricklayet
was tried for killing fellow work
man by Draining him with trowel
He was acquitted. On the same day
an individual trapped a sparrow with
bird-lime and was given two weeks
4 Imprisonment.
! Nine. Lamberjack and her husband
| an automobile dealer and wealthy
sportsman, were divorced. She wen.
from Paris to ST. German upon hear.
ing he was removing his personal be
longings from their house there, and
shot him twice, killing him. She, too
was acquitted, her clever attorney us
/! ing a remark made during the Bloch
trial, by the prosecuting attorney.
The latter had said:
Now had Nine. Bloch desired a
victim, that victim certainly was not
Mrs. Bridgman. The victim was in
her own house. Had. she killed her
husband we would have had nothing
to say
Nine. Lamberjack sought the vic
tim in her own house, found him and
killed him. The jury accordingly
had nothing to say"
These are specimens of the latest
verdicts of French courts which have
enraged public opinion In France
That the legislature will be called up
on to suggest some sort of remedy is
4 certain since Deputy Reyroux has al
ready signified his intention of tax
ing the matter up with the minister
of justice.
The crime passionel" is common
in France and the recent verdicts
freeing murderers, it is feared, viii
stimulate this particular evil.
!, A workman who lay in wait for hi:
wife and fired five shots at her anc
missed with every one, has just beer
sentenced to two years Imprisonment
Newspapers heralded the event witt
headlines saying. ITS no crime t.
kill" and with cartoons. One pic.ur
ed man running away at full tilt.
j What's the matter?" bystandel
shouts after him.
, Mon dieu!' the runner replies
, I'm lost! shot at my wife ant
missed her!"
!, Many reyolvers are sold on the In
, stallment plan here and DAntin
! writing in "Le Matin" of an adver
, tisement for one which claims to b.
extra fat" and having AN enormous
4 penetration, being dangerous at 40t
| metres says: