Berthe Claiche shot an unarmed man in the back, at point blank range, as police officers were escorting him away from her.
Nevertheless, she managed to make a convincing case that she was in fear for her life, and that the killing was self-defense.
“Girl Shot Tyrant Rightly,” was The New York Herald headline reporting the results of the coroner’s inquest, days after the July 8, 1905 murder. It seemed her victim, Emil Gerdron, 42, had had it coming for a long time.
Six years earlier, Claiche was an innocent 16-year-old lace maker living in a small village in France with her parents. Gerdron lured her from home with a promise of marriage and a better life.
She ended up a streetwalker in Paris, where Gerdron forced her to “barter her womanhood,” as the newspapers put it, to support him.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/justice-story-shocking-case-man-gunned-police-custody-article-1.1059979
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