BLOODTHIRSTY TYPIST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1651, 18 January 1913, Page 5

BLOODTHIRSTY TYPIST.

.DOUBLE MURDER PLANNED. "May I speak to M. Xavier Guichard? I have something very important to say to him. I. have just been asked to commit ' a murder. M. Xavier Guichard, being the head of the,'detective police of Paris, is: a busy man, but he iB not too busy to receive anyone^who has/been charged with a duty that ■ interests his department so nearly. >So the stranger was ushered in, and began his story. "You/see," he said, "these two notes of ...a hundred francs each?.. They have been sent, to mo by a typist. She is 19 years old, and she ask? me,to murder two old people who nre-jelatives of hers; also their servant. When these two old people die she expects to come into their money. She has two other .relatives, who are with her in her plan. The 200 francs are on account. And this is what I am to do. lam to proceed first of all to the house of one of thq old people, a farmer on. tho outskirts of Paris. ■ I am to go on a Saturday, a.market day, and'l am to pretend that I want to buy a cow or some chickens. Then I am to fix a rendezvous on some pretext in » remote part of, the neighbourhood. With a mattock which I have' to; purchase at a store I am to go to the rendezvous, and I ani to kill the old man who comes to meet.me. The second old man I am to shoot with a revolver, and I am to 'do everything I can to make it appear that the crime has been committed. by the Bonnot gang." . M. Xavier Guichard put a question to the speaker. "Yes," was the reply, "I have- had trouble with the police. 1 was once one of a gang of international thieves. But I am not an assassin. : M. Guichard has long since com© to tho conclusion that most stories may be truo; ait any rate, that they are worth testing. So, after the'strange man had ceosed ho sent for the typist to whom hod. been imputed theso cold-blooded and ferocious intentions. ■ And he found that it was even ns the, man had said/ The vie ms sho had marked down had refused to help her in life, and she hopedjiy their death to gain their money. By French law, M. Gufchard was, in the circumstan es. unable to detain the lady. All he cm Id do was to admonish her severely and let her go. ■ ■ ■ ■ -