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OF A PRISONER
PARIS, Sept. 1 (Correspondence of
Associated Press).—Little headway
has been made inr the case of Landru,
“the Cambais Bluebeard,” as the
French papers term him, who is
charged by the police with being
responsible for the disappearance of
thirteen women to whom he had
promised marriage.
The police have been investigating
for four months, and four times a
week Landru is taken from the prison
of La Sante to the office of Judge '
Bonin whose questions as to the fate
of the thirteen women elicit from
Landru evasive and at times very
witty responses. They have got as
far as sweetheart number three and
Landru's flippant replies have nearly
driven the Judge to nervous prostra
I tion.
Yesterday the judge announced
that he was going for a holiday. Lan
dru immediately chipped in with the
request that he, too, be permitted to
take a vacation as the regime of La
Sante did not agree with him. Might
he not be allowed to go to his villa
at Gambais and hold himself at the
disposition of the court? It was from
Gambais villa that Landru’s future
spouses disappeared never to be
heard of since.
Judge Bonin was asking this week
how it was that his son who assisted
him in removing the furniture of
three of his fiances did not make
queries when moving that of Mrs.
Guillin, the third removal of furniture
in six months. “Did he not find it
-strange?” asked the judge.
iviy cnuaren ouey my uruers,
do not discuss them,” responded Lan
dru. “I have my misgivings as to
the way you bring up your children,
judge,” he added sententiously.
Landru contended that he had an
order from Mrs. Guillin, drawn up in
legal form, giving him full power of
attorney to administer her property.
“This document was not found among
your papers, therefore, I must con
clude that it never existed,” said the
judge.
“And as you and all your police,
with all the means at your command
are unable to find Mrs. Guillin, I must
conclude that she never existed,”
countered Landru.
Not one vestige of the missing
^ woman has been found and the charge
of murder against Landru has been
growing weaker. There is no “cor
pus delicti.” The villa at Gambais
has been ransacked by the police
and ponds in the vicinity of the villa
have been drained, but it would appear
that the women have vanished into
thin air. To questions as to the
f probable whereabouts of the missing
women, or his relations with them
prior to their disappearance, he in-1
variably replies: “I am a man of the
world, I cannot betray the confidence
of women.”
PICTURES GF'SOLDIERS
ARE ACQUISITION OF
DEPARTMENT OF WAR
PARIS, Sept. 1 (by mail).—An im
portant collection of portraits of al
lied war leaders has just been com
pleted here by Dana Pond, the Amer
ican artist, and will be sent shortly
to Washington f6r presentation to
the war department as the gift of •
Mr. Pond and the American Red
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Cross.
The collection includes individual
portraits of General Pershing, Gen
rial Bliss, Colonel House, Admiral ;•
Benson and Marshal Petain, together
with a group painting of the supreme .
war council, showing General Bliss,
General Di Robliant, General Belin
and General Sackville-West.
The big group painting represents
the allied military chiefs in the con
ference room at Versailles, analyzing (
the intricate military situation at the
time the Germans were driven back
at all points along the western front
just before the armistice.
SCARCITY OF SUGAR
IS EMPHASIZED BY
INCIDENT IN PARIS
PARIS, Aug. 28 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—A truck driver
was unloading a load of heavy sacks
at a restaurant in one of the boule
vards yesterday when one of them
burst and its contents were spread
over the sidewalk. A crowd gathered.
One young man wet his finger and
tasted the white powder.
“Great heavens,” he shouted, “it is
sugar!”
Then the pillage began. News
papers, handkerchiefs and women’s
handbags served as receptacles for
holding the precious dainty. In a
few minutes there remained of that
sack of sugar nothing but a white
spot on the sidewalk around which
congregated little dogs.
Every one is allowed two pounds
of sugar per month in France upon
production of his sugar card. The
correspondent has produced his card
about a dozen times since the begin
ning of the month but he has not yet
been able to obtain his August quota.
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Special dinner served from 11:30
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