LANDRU~S TRIAL.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FIX AI. STAGES BEACHED. PARIS, -Nov. 2U. There was u record attendance at the l.andru tjrial to-day, including ()r----the painter, who made a series of sketches of Landru. The Advocate-!General concluded Ins | speech. He said that Landru had smashed the skulls of the women with j an axe. and had cut, up the remains I with surgical saws, whereof l.andriTs notebook showed that lie had purchased six dozen. The prisoner turned a ghastly colour when tile Advocate-General demanded the sentence of the guillotine. \| (liafferi, l.anddu’s counsel, who is an accomplished orator, with fine gestures emphasised his ftigumont. Hr apto the jury to remember that landru’s silence was protcccd by law; but his most impressive point was a from tlie Xapoleonie code that an absent person was never dead, anil that death must not be assured for thirty years.
The speech in defence will he eoneluded to-morrow, when the verdict is expected. BLUEBEARD FOUND GUILTY. LANDRU CONDEMNED TO DEATH. (Received This Day at 12.2.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. DO. Landru has been condemned to death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1921, Page 3
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