Chloroformed in Famous Express

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 8

Chloroformed in Famous Express

DEAD WOMAN WITH HANDS AND FEET BOUND BY STEEL WIRES PARIS. Chloroformed, gagged and bound, a young widow was found dead, wrapped in a rug, in the famous StrasbourgVentimiglia express at Beaulieu. No motive for the crime was disclosed. Theft appears to be ruled out, for though her handbag was empty there was still a diamond bracelet on her wrist and rings of value on her fingers. The result is that the police are interviewing her friends to find out if she had any enemies, or if it is, a case of the “■'eternal triangle.” The police are working on the theory that she was killed in revenge. The victim was Mme. Suzanne Garolla. She •had boarded the train at Lyons on her way back to Cannes, where she was employed as manageress of a famous chocolate firm. At Marseilles a ticket collector noticed that she was asleep, completely hidden by the rug. When three hours later he passed down the c,orridor collecting tickets he tried to rouse her. As she did not move he pulled the rug back. Then he saw a chloroform pad fall from her mouth. Her hands and feet were bound by thin steel wires. She was dead.

Baek of this tragedy lies another. She had written to her ten-year-old son to meet her. He was there. The train came in. No mother. Then came news of the murder.