Word: jaccoud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to Geneva in June 1958, Jaccoud was arrested. He spent the next 19 months in the prison hospital, for the shock of incarceration turned him into a quivering wreck of a man, given to fainting spells." Last week Jaccoud was taken into court in a hospital chair to stand trial for the murder of Charles Zumbach...
Tranquil Nude. The first witness was Mme. Zumbach, who admitted that when she was confronted by a line-up of five men in the police station, one of whom was Jaccoud, she had promptly picked a burly policeman as the likely culprit. Her son André followed her to the stand, described his affair with Poupette as "an adventure neither of us took seriously." He conceded that he had already given her up in October 1957 - months before his father's murder - and had become engaged to an other girl, to whom he is now married. Jaccoud...
Linda Baud avoided looking at Jaccoud during her four hours of purple testimony. The judge, studying the nude photos that Linda said had been taken at gun point, remarked that she seemed "perfectly tranquil and at ease." Conceded Linda: "Well, I didn't react." Did she consider the defendant capable of killing a human being? After some hesitation, Linda said, "I don't think so." Lawyer Floriot wrung from Linda the admission that she had taken a new lover since André, a young Belgian who worked for the Palais des Nations, and he left implicit the suggestion...
Family Man. Last week's emotional high point came when Jaccoud's wife Erna took the stand to insist that her unfaithful husband was a "devoted, exemplary family man, who saw to it that our children and I lacked nothing." His only flaw: "He did not spend his leisure time with his family." He was far too shy to be a killer, insisted Erna Jaccoud. Under the stress of her testimony, Defendant Jaccoud fainted dead away. After a 15-minute adjournment, the judge asked everyone to do his utmost to "get this painful part of the proceedings over...
...week's end the newsmen and photographers from all over Europe who filled the court were uncertain what impression was being gained by the twelve apple-cheeked Swiss jurors who will decide whether lovelorn Pierre Jaccoud goes free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing...