Word: landru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maitre Moro-Giafferri has won many famous French criminal cases. His most celebrated defense, although it failed, was that of "the French Bluebeard," Henri Desire Landru, accused of butchering ten women and a boy. The defense arguments in this case are still regarded by members of the Paris bar as tops in technical perfection and legal virtuosity. Landru was guillotined February...
...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...
...Miller saw Hnri Désiré ("Bluebeard") Landru guillotined in a Versailles street for butchering ten women and a boy. When the warders flung the murderer on the machine, part of the platform collapsed, but they managed to clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller...
...jumped the assistant executioners, a priest, and a scowling, square-jawed man in shirtsleeves. Again the whisper went round: "C'est lui! C'est Sarret!" Georges Alexander Sarrejani, alias Sarret, was a Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner...
...murder of Albert Prince. Premier Doumergue, enraged, offered 100,000 francs reward for the capture of the murderer and assigned famed Detective Charles Belin to take personal charge. Now head of the Surete Generale, the French secret police, M. Belin trailed, captured and brought to the guillotine Bluebeard Landru. All he could discover last week was that Judge Prince was quite dead before he was tied to the track, and that the original telephone message had come not from Dijon but from Paris. Raymond Prince, son of the murdered judge, cried bravely: "In spite of the terrible responsibility it involves...