FRENCH MURDER.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1924, Page 2

FRENCH MURDER.

MAN KlI.l.KI) RY WIFE'S LOVER

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, Jan. 21. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris corresponded tsays:—A lnuriler recalling Deeming has been discovered in IJheiins. The disniemhered body of a"*' ■ chauffeur, Andre Chausinaud, was found buried three feet deep in a cement stable. A youth, Lamotte, sou of a rich draper in ltheinis, who had been the lover of the chauffeur’s wife and step-daughter has confessed. Lamotto and Madame Chausinaud are in custody. Andre was angry because his wife was connected with a. house of doubtful repute. There were scenes of angry recrimination when Olvinpe, the step-daughter aged 15, who was also intimate with Lamotte (who is a. lmxer. cyclist, and football player) first paid court by Lamotte. Then be became the favourite of the wife. Finally Chausinaud disappeared on Oct. Litli. His wife said he had gone <m business to South France. The man’s employer, however, suspected, and Olympe was questioned. She told a friend that Lamotte killed her father in a quarrel, and he buried him at Saint Price in a house owned by her mother. This was for sale, so the lice, as possible purchasers, got tin. r keys, and found traces of a grave in the garden, and new cement in a stable. Olympe, on Saturday morning, was brought from her typing to St. Brice, and questioned, .vHieil she denied nnv knowledge. The police officer said: “That is a lie. You knniv lioger Lamotte, your lover, killed him.” The girl broke down, and confessed that Lamotte told her he had killed her father and buried him in the garden, and that a month later the mother, daughter and the lover went io an untenanted house. Lamotte dug a hole in the stable. They exhumed the body, as it would not fit in the hole. They cut off the head and legs. The wife helped to cut off the clothes with a pair of scissors. The body was then thrown into a hole, Lamotte and the wife stamping down the earth. Olymne implored the Commissary not to arrest Lamolte. but be was arresT-'. ed and confessed he killed the chauffeur with i\ revolver in a quarrel aboutbis wife. The wife admits she hired two Italians to cover the floor of tho stables with cement. When the remains were disinterred in the presence of the guilty ones, the woman screamed, and covered her face. Lamotte cynically remarked: “He was m rascal, T did well to kill him.” Before being taken to prison, the woman and her lover embraced affectionately.”