CRIME DETECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1926, Page 2

CRIME DETECTION

FRENCH SENSATION. '.Australtu & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Aug. 28. A unique example of French legal methods was provided in the reconstruction of the Guyot crime. Guyot is charged with murdering the girl Alario Beaulonquot, whose charred reamins were found in the ashes of a burned haystack. The event closely resembled a superb holiday. The whole of the scenes were re-enacted. Guyot himself was present. He was accompanied by a liorclc of officials in twenty cars. There were dense crowds of sightseers en route. Often at the scene of the tragedy, ihe proceedings were stopped to allow the examining magistrate to ques-' tion Guyot. This afforded' the crowd a dress circle view of the proceedings. Guyot himself was very calm, and he related without emotion tho whole of the events as previously alleged. Three miles “from the spot his ear was stopped and Guyot was unliandcuffed, and he took the wheel in order to demonstrate to an inspector alongside him how he steered with one hand and gripped) the girl’s throat with the other. The crowd there overwhelmed the roadway. The Atagistrate decided to postpone that particular incident. AYheu the party arrived at the field, there were thousands eagerly waiting. The gendarmes and the mounted police had the greatest difficulty in keeping order. The police officers built a haystack which Guyot fired in order that tho gas escaping from it might ho sampled to see if it were similar to that found in the girl’s stomach. Thereafter Guyot drove a ear and demonstrated to an inspector of police how lie had seized the girl by tho throat after she had upbraided and struck him. and how he held her throat until the girl died under tho pressure together with the car’s jolting. Guyot afterwards became annoyed bv too much questioning, and he said that he could not see tho point of it. Thereupon everybody returned to Aleaux.