YOUTH’S GAY LIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1930, Page 5

YOUTH’S GAY LIFE

ENDS IN MURDER

(United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.)

PARIS, December 3

A story of gay life culminating, in murder has been revealed by the dramatic arrest of Georges Gfliichet, who recently inherited 200,000 francs from his father, who wn,s ft successful pastry cook. He gave up his job as a bank clerk, took a dancer for his mistress, and he came down to his last meal on November 17, when a jeweller named Dannenhoffer, was found murdered in bis shop in the Hue Mozart with sixteen shots in his skull, and his ribs broken, apparently by kicks. The only clue was a newspaper folded over n't the racing page. This enabled detectives to discover that Gnnchet had lost heavily on a race mentioned in the newspaper. They tracked the youth to a M.oht Martre cafe at three o’clock in the morning. On Gauchet’s wrist was a stolen watch. He confessed that lie had been starving, and had tried to raid the jeweller’s shop, but Dannenhoffer noticed him, and a desperate fight ensued, in which Caucliet stunned the shopkeeper. He then poked up a revolver lying in the hack of the shop, and emptied the contents into the mail’s head. He then turhed out the lights and fled into the night.