MURDER AT REIMS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 7

MURDER AT REIMS

BODY OF MISSING HUSBAND

FOUND BURIED IN CEMENT.

ik'KITED PRESJ ASSOCIATION.—fUPTRIQHT.)

lAUSTKAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CAD],C ASSOCIATION.) - ■' ■ LONDON, 21st January. The 'Daily Chronicle's" Paris • correspondent says that a murder recalling Hie Deeming case has been discovered at Reims. The dismembered body of a chauffeur named Andre Chausinaud was found buried three feet deep in cement in a. stable. A youth named La. Blotto, the son of a rich draper in Helms, who has been the lover of the chauffeur's wife and stepdaughter has contesseJ to the ciime. La Matte and Madame Chausinaud are in custody. ' Chausinaud was arigry . because"' his wile Was connected with v house of doubtful repute, and there were scenes of angry recrimination. Olvmpe the stepdaughter, aged fifteen, also became intimate with I,a Motto, who is a boxer, cyclist, and football player. He nst paid court to Olympe, and then became the favourite of (he wife. Finally Chausinaud disappeared on 14th October. /His wife said that he had gone on business in the South of 1' ranee. Tlie- man's employer, however suspected her, and Olympe was questioned.. She told a friend that La Motto had trilled ■■ her father in a quarrel, and t|iut he was buried ai, St. knee, a house owned by bis mother. This was for sale, so" the police,' as possible purchasers got the keys and found traces of a grave in the garden and new cement hi the stable. Olympe on Saturday morning was brought fi'Om her typing to. St. Brice, and questioned.

AVhen questioned, she denied knowledge. A police officer said: "That is a he. You know that Roger La Motte, your lover, killed him."

,lhe girl broke down and confessed. La Motte had told her that he had killed her father and buried him in the garden. A month later the mother, the daughter, and her lover went to the untenanted house. La Motte dug a hole in the stable, then exhumed the body, and, as it would not fit in the hole, cut of! the head and legs. Chausinuiid s wite helped to cut off liis clothes with scissors.

Ihe body was then thrown into the hole La Motte „nd the wife stamping it down into the earth. Olympe im pjored tlie, commissary not to arrest L-i Motte, but when arrested lie confessed that he had killed the chatfeur" with a revolver in a quarrel about hj s wife Die Wife admits that she hired two Italians to cover the floor of the stables with cement. When the remains v;»re disinterred in the presence of the guilt v pair the woman screamed and covered Jilt face. k La Molte cynically remarked- "He was a rascal. 1 did well lo kill him." before they were taken to p,i a(m the woman and her lover embraced atfeclionately.

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