New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1919, Page 5

PARISIAN BLUEBEARD, MISSING WOMEN EW BRITAIN AND CHILDREN, LOVE AND HYPNOTISM, ALL IN FRENCH MURDER MYSTERY Letters and Locks of Hair Are Found, But No Trace of Landru’s Many Fiancees. (By Harold E. Paris, May dru, .the Paris chase politics clear +light Landru is the central suspect—in the weirdest m tery case the nch joved in a generation Polities is deadly aull alongside this throbbing, terest mystery of love. passion, notism, curious disappearances, apimals and ‘‘India rubber” batics. Bechtol) has taken “‘Bluebeard,” out of the to spot- urder mys to Paris hyp- pet acro- almost daily and list of “missing’— girls widows, financees of the “Bluebeard’”—boys and pet animals who were taken to hi So far, the case involves A dozen or more comely women, 5, from pretty zirls to widows of ripe " years Two little girls with about 10 years old. Two boys, one 7, one 15 A black and white cat fur. And three tiny pet dogs that vipped faintly at night. Bald, bearded, but “young in his ways,’ this prisoner Landru, in in- telligence and education, is above the ordinary. He is keen and polite. And he sits calmly in prison while the de- tectives puzzle and sweat. “Barbi-blueue” (“Bluebeard”) Paris calls him. Also ‘“‘the India rubber bénding man” and “‘the man of miss- ing fiancees.” The girls and the widows who ac- cepted invitations to accompany the charming wooer to one of his lonely country villas, have in case disappeared as though swallowed up by the earth. elations there is a long golden with long List of Women in Notebook. ssions detec- ‘e found a notebook contain- % ing dates and the names of some of the women who dropped out of sight after going to live with him Police also found a strange tection of dossiers which kept about some of the women who are missi These dossiers were filed large grey envelopes, in a trunk. They . zenerally consisted of a lock of hair 3 bit of jewelry or lace. a photograph sr two, some notes and a bundle of tervent love letters. Some of the women he met throu matrimonial ads in the Paris ne papers. Since his arrest women have alled at his Paris flat in answer to xmatrimonial ads There usually followed a dinner at the “‘Bluebeard’s” flat. ) After dinner he often tried hyprotic powers upon his willing suh- jects. And occasionally he entertained the girls with acrobatic feats. For a year or more in 1917-18 he carried on a double affair with a widow and her niece, Mme. Annette Pascal and Mile. Fauchet. One night in his flat, after a dinner .and wine, he so surprised them with his limberness that they nicknamed him “the India rubber man.” e seemed double-jointed, and the widow and her niece confessed to seing delighted whén he gaye a pri- vate exhibition for their edification, col- in Lan- | tde Barzieux. figure—the ; capital has en- ;“’"" 7 LANDRUNRN PRESENTEDN THEM AS RiS “DAUGHTERS Lingerie and bending and twisting his body 1 a most astonishing fashion. Landru also tried out his hypmotic art upon the niece, which frightened her at first, she said, but he quickly soothed her. Aunt Wins Qut Over Girl. For a time there was sharp rivalry between the aunt and the girl. Beth were infatuated with the d,”” who s lying under the sounding name of Louis Forest He gave the girl flow- widow of riper expe- fur coat and somo hig] e while the rience received a wines. Finally, a year ago, he invited the ' girl to accompany him to one of his human-in- | | Landru suggested that she come . Detectives are turning un new rev- | Stead of the gir already “Sel'fl GE country villas. | | train { come to see her off country houses. The aunt objected, leaving Paris herself, on account of Big Bertha's nefarious shelling. So in- She accepted, and niece elsewhere. Police have learned that the aunt left for the country villa taking along her pet black and white cat, with long fur. As she was boarding the she said to a friend who had ‘I don’t know { what is the matter with me, but I am curls, | beard vip- | i few day: afraid.” She has not been heard She never replied to letters. But a pet cat'’s body has been dug up in the garden of Landru's “Blue- villa. The adventure had an ending sim- ilar to many of Landrws aftairs. A after the widow's disap- of since. | pearance, he appeared at her flat with a motor van and carted off her fur- niture. Woman and Dogs All Are Missing. As late as January of this year, Mlle. Mario Therese Marchadier vis- ited “Bluebeard’s” villa—and dropped ! out of sight as mysteriously as the former loves. Marie was a bold, black-eyed | beauty of French southern type. Dogs almost every ! were a passion with her, little grif- fons or “toy dogs’ particularly, and she was known to kcep five at one time. When she went to live with the “India rubber man” she took three dogs along. She told her friends she | was going to marry a “charming fel- 1 low | “and Landru | | from hu i his | who would house, a motor lots more.” When she boarded the forest cottage, she disappeared an knowledge. Police have learned that passers, late at night or at early morning hours, often heard the little dogs ‘'vip-yvipping” faintly. They thou it strange that dogs should be yipping so, at such hours. Later the vipping ceased. And now the bodies of the little dogs hav been dug up in the “Bluebeard villa garden Faced with give her a country car, a lady's maid, the train for this evidence. has said that the girl asked kill the dogs because they costly to keep.” Disquieting muystery fate of two little girls with golden curls, who couldn’t have been over 10 old. often in Landru's com- pany in 1915. They were alw daintily dressed and Landru pre sented them as his daughters. Landru known to have daughters but in 1915 they were and 16 years old. Widow and Son Both Disappear. Another mystery in 1915, just re- vealed. is the disappearance of Mme. Cuchet, and her son Andre, aged 15. Mme. Cuchet was a good-looking widow who took her son along when she went, under the usual promise Landru him to were ''so two 18 “Blue- | but spoke of} surrounds the | DOLL FACED GIRL NAMED MLLE. SEGRET OF AN INCLOTHED VOMAN TouNg \N FOREST of marriage, té live with the “Blue- beard.” She also took her savings of about $25,000. There is also a girl of 15 named Andree who stayed at the villa in the forest with the wooer in 1916. She called him “Lulu” affectionately and neighbors used to see her sitting on { his lap and stroking his beard. She wore knickerbockers and rode a bicycle often. Another child, a boy of 7, was seen about the villa last year. hunting information about his tity and fate. While living in Paris in 1917 he had as his flancee and flat com- panion a girl of 17, demure, quiet, little creature with pleasant manner | Police can find no trace of her. Evidence seized includes a large collection of under-laces and silken lingerie marked with the initials of many of the missing women. Landru was arrested in his Paris flat, making love to his last fiance, a young doll-faced girl named Mlle Se- gret. 3 She knew nothing of his previous life, had met him through an ad- vertisement }m his charms. At the time of the arrest the girl explained that were enjoying what was a custom with *“Bluebeard”—one of these pre- nuptial honeymoons that was ‘‘soon’ to become a formal marriage. iden- The bald and bearded motor engi- neer affects ultra polite manners. An a visit to his cell, most-talked-of man in the capital and the prisoner in the trangest murder mystery case France has seen in many years. It is true that he has a police record of seven convictions for swindling. that he was the i fact. And he acknowledges that he is considerable of a Don Juan. I am a swindler, but not an a sassin,” he says. “I have had many fiancees—iwhy we parted is our affair. Gallantr; adventure “But not one of them harmed—I am not a murderer.” When he tired of a sweetheart, Landru says he simply let her go. in love. | Made Popular By Soothing Pranks. man whom apparently no widow with savings or love-hungry girl could r sist for 24 hours, who holds the polic speed vears old. He has a blue-black is one reason why “Bluebeard.” attractive to look at. but women have testified to able, soothing pranks.” beard, a “his dozen and two daughters, but they have had no part in his life since he came out of jail on a swindling sentence in 1913 His son believes that his father must have heen a sort of Jekyll and Hyde person—because he was always gentle-mannered and kind to his children except when “he used have terrible spells of anger, and mere nothings.” The son seg's he never drank to excess or gambled. In addition to being a skilled mo- tor engineer, he had once been an architect and had a number of diplo- mas from various schools. He holds a patent on a motoreyele and in 1899 invented a motor car. smoked, DAILY HERALD. Police are | they | interviewer would never suspect from | French | He makes no attempt to conceal the | ? ; | forbids my discussing our have I| Landru, the Parisian bluebeard, the ords as a love-maker, is 55 which | Paris calls him | He is not striking, or ! ador- | Landru has a wife and a son 23| to | would become a regular madman over | TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1915. INDIGESTION AND CONSTIPATION | !, Quickly Refieved By “Fruit-a-tives” Rocrox, P. Q. o] guffered for many years with Zevyible Indigestionand Constipation. A neighbor advised “Fruila-tives (or Fruit Liver Tablets). I tried them. To the surprise of my doctor, I began to improve and he advised me to go on With “Fruit.a-tives. T consider that I owe my life to tFruit-a-tives” and I want to say to these who suffer from Indigestion, Constipation or Headaches — try “Fruit-a-“ives” and you will get well . 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Bohemia 13,102 9,410 8,414 464 GERMAN SHIPS 0 ~ BEGIVENTOU.S. | | 700,000 Tons Represents Three v G following | Rudolf Blumberg the declaration of War in April, 1917. | Gouverneur Jaeschke 1,738 d vsed as ' Locksun These | Rhein ....... the | Neckar of | Bulgaria 636 of | Hohenfelde | 1,500,000 } Breslau Adamsturm 5,000 4,967 4,760 4,660 4,630 Prince Joachim .... Prinz Fitel Priedrich Allemannia . Magdeburg Harburg Nassovia Portonia Maija . Clara Menning .. Indra (ship) Matador (bark) 4 At Bostol 4 .4 3,9 02 78 Amerika Cincinnati . Kronprinzessin cilie Koin Wittekind Ockenfels .16, . 5,621 At Manila. Sachsen S Mark Bochum Tubingen Andalusia ........ Camilia Rickmers Sambia. .. Esslingen .. Elmshorn Suevia Coblenz Rajah .. Lycemoon Clara Jebson Pong Tong Johanne ....... 531 Carl Diedricher: .243 At Philadelphia. Kronprinz Wilhelm (Aux. Cruiser) ...14,808 Prinz Eitel Friedrich (Aux. cruiser) HaleTia it B 8,797 6,600 6,026 6,557 5,644 . 4,730 8,716 3,227 Pommern Holsatia Setos .. 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