LANDRU CASE
SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES BONES OF FIVE PERSONS DISCOVERED. Br Telccraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 12 (delayed). A search of Landru's Paris house revealed a wardrobe filled with women's clothes, marked with the ' initials ot the supposed victims, and also several -books,- including a- treatise on celebrated poison cases. There was a hostile demonstration when the police escorted Landru from the house. Women shouted: "Death to the assassin!" and flourished sticks and umbrellas, and it"wss difficult"for the police "to protect the "prisoner." "' '" Landru, referring to the .hypnotic powers attributed to him, said if he could only have spoken to thoso women he could have calmed them. It is suggested that the| carbonised bones found at Gambais constitute 1 : the remains of five ■•different persons: ***'.v
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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129LANDRU CASE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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