GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1919, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

WHOLESALE MURDER OF WOMEN. Received April 22, 5.5 p.m. Paris, April 17. In connection with the arrest of Landru, a dealer in automobiles, for the murder of a number of women (it being suspected that eleven were murdered, but none of the bodies have been discovered) it transpires that Landru is an educated man, possessing diplomas in science and literature and well supplied with money. Besides the villa on the border of the Ramboillet Forest, where women were invited to spend a few days with him after becoming engaged to him, he had two houses near Paris, a flat in Paris, and two garages, which were used for fraudulent traffic. He has a wife and four children. He used a dozen aliases, and has served term? of imprisonment. The police discovered a "dosier" in one of the garages Wherein were envelopes, each Containing the name, date, photograph, and' a lock of the hair of the supposed victims, including three known to be missing. The neighbors at various times noticed bonfires in the gardens of Landru's house, where heaps of cinders, a bloodstained cord, mattress, and inculpatory evidence were discovered.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.