FRENCH GIRL’S DEATH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3669, 23 July 1927, Page 4

FRENCH GIRL’S DEATH.

MILLIONAIRE TRIED. GREAT PUBLICITY; PARIS, July 21. The Assixe Court at Alelun (twentyeight miles from Paris) was’ besieged when the millionaire stockbroker Gaston Guyot gave his own version of the death of Marie Louise Beulagent, known as “Malou, the telephone girl with the green eyes,” whom he is accused of having strangled. The case has been the talk of France, and fills pages of the newspapers. Guyot strenuously maintained that Alaiou’s death was accidental. Bursting into tears he exclaimed: “Why should 1 have killed her ? It is so easy to get rid of a mistress.” Accused averred that Malou was of a violent, jealous disposition. Ho explained that while they were motoring he fastened a fatal clutch on her throat with his right hand steering with his left. He was in a fit of uncontrollable exasperation. The Julge refused to accept this version, and said that the evidence showed Gu.vot was determined to make an end of an embarrassing mistress. He deliberately strangled her, not in the motorcar, but at the side of a hayrick, among the charred remains of which Alaiou’s half-burned body was found. Guyot confessed that he fired the rick. He said that on seeing the poor girl was dead he thought only ot getting rid of the body. Questions - revealed that Guyot had _ been twice married, and that both hisTwives had committed suicide.

Doctors declared that life was not extinct when the girl was thrown on the hayrick, as fumes were found in her lungs. The case was adjourned.—A. and N.Z. cable.