Word: koven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Eugene Weidmann, 31, amatory German murderer-for-profit who in his haunts near Paris killed six people, including Brooklyn Dancer Jean de Koven; under the guillotine; at dawn, in sight of 10,000 sensation seekers, outside Versailles prison...
...first a white handbag, then the body of a young girl, fully dressed, doubled up like a jackknife. She had been strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France's famed Henri Desire Landru. Dancer De Koven's brother Henry, a U. S. theatrical director, commented bitterly...
Despite the belief of the Paris press and police, 22-year-old Jean De Koven was neither a night-club dancer nor a chorus girl, but a student of ballet whose only professional appearance was as a child dancer with a road company of The Miracle. With her aunt, Miss Ida Sackheim of Brooklyn, she arrived in Paris on July 19. A few days later Jean De Koven was picked up in the lobby of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs by a young man known only as "Bobby," who spoke English with a strong German accent. Jean De Koven made...
Despite ransom messages and mysterious telephone calls, despite the appearance of several of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...police station he began confessing. Yes, he had shot Frommer (whose cigarette lighter he was using) and Lesobre (whose car he was driving), but when confronted with the blue folder of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, he suddenly burst into tears...