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FHM HONGKONG DAILI PRESS. TUESDAY

JUNE 17TH. 1919.

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GRIM SECRETS OF A GARDEN.

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different women bad disappeared after

THE OPENING OF A ORAYE

BLUEBEARD IN REAL LIFE rented a fat in Paris, from which she letters, and photographs, which are be Accused is singularly ugly and unpre- with him. Her family never saw either THE TERRITORIAL FORCE. was expelled owing to the rowdy conducerea to be Laudru's secret record of his possessing. He has a bald head, thick of then again. Ntar-Landru's villa at ME CHURCHILL'S REORGANISA of her guests. She tried to sell the fur victims. Each packet was contained in lips, and dark beard. It was the recur- Gambais in the village cemetery, and

TION SCHEME. Every French husband of a runaway niture, and Dupont went there as a pro. a separate grey envelope, and in a notering description." bald and bearded," in among curious stories current in the

The Government'has`decided that it is wife seems to have got into communich spective buger... He could not pay the book Laudru carried was a list of many reports concering the men with whom locality is one concerning

necessary immediately to re-establish the tion with the police following sensational price demanded, but went back and took women's names. disclosures on the Blueheard career purbur flowers and fascinated her. She weat

Now the Police are endeavouring to visits to the country that led the police there while Laudra occupied the house. Territorial Force. In informing a gather- ued by a Parisian engineer, who is said to the bungalow with her dogs lured trace the whereabouts of these women, be to the conclusion that Luudru was also After an exhumation the gravedigger left ing of representatives of Territorial Force

cause. so far, not a single body has been to have fascinated, courted, and carried by the promise of a life of lastound. Segret says she found these things for whom they were searching. Another going to the cemetery found the grave Churchill outlined the main provisions of the Fremiet, Cuchet, Dupont, and Guillet a hole to be filled in next day, but on Associations of this conclusion, Mr. of nine or ten well-to-do women-widows Villagers speak of having

at the fat, on her arrival. Laudru re- peculiarity which raised the suspicion almost fall. Relieving that loose earth the scheine under which the Force will be And young girls-and then destroyed them. There is fairly substantial evid the villa. but, none of them ever went

fused to explain their origin, so' be wild that they were one and the same man was had fallen in, te finished the work with be reconstituted. The needs with which ence that they were either burned or into the village or strolled in the forest taken to Gaminis and the villa was that in each case the woman had left out further thought. Now the mystery we are faced are urgent and real, he said, buried in the garden of a lonely villa,

Dupont always did his own shopping, /searcbed in his presence. The motorhome to make arrangements for marriage is to be investigated. Diard, as he was

garage where it is supposed Dupont which came into possession of the accused and was regarded as an odd character placed his cars was neat and tidy, and with an engineer, and at least two of them † kaown locally, told neighbours at Yer" and we are in a good position at the when the war was 12 months old.

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SELY OTHER WOMEN INTER

Between his visits the villa was shut up,

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MARRIAGE TO A GOOD-LOOKING WIDOW

As the result of the deliberations of a

the Force shall be organised as follows:

I Divisions.

small committee, it is recommended that

14 Mounted Brigades. Army troops.

Garrison and Line of Communication,

Units

nouillet that his wife had gone to the present time to make practical plans, for we have immense supplies, and, the days, In the summer of 1913 a motorist but sometimes, when his arrival had not contained numerous tools and spare parts, announced to their friends that they U.S. on business and that the boy was arrived in his car at the little village been noticed, smoke was seen issuing from but the villa was in utter disorder. ware going to Gambais, where the lonely going to join the British Army. Later are past when the Territorials had to put Laudru is married Laudru and his grown-up son moved the up with second and third rate weapons, bouillet Forest, and, at the entrance to and was sometimes seen even in mid, in one room, a bed had been improvised with several children, but has nat lived furniture to a warehouse at Neuilly,a and when every item of equipment needed of Grabais, in the borders of the Bam the chimney. It was dense black smoke. There was practically no furniture, but villa is situated.

with his wife for a long time.

Puris suburb, but nothing was ever seep to be obtained on painfully limited Army, on two chairs, while in another was a the village chose a villa which stands in summer. Once the garde champêtre was

Following Laudru's first appearance again of Mme. Cachet or her boy. En estimates. In the cornera its own grounds, almost entirely abut in ordered to investigate, but was drivan aarrow folding couch.

were heaps of soiled linen and women's before the magistrate, his photograph circumstances very similar to the dis- by walls and surrounded by stables, sheds, away by Dupont in a fury. Now the and domestic offices. The property forms villagers are wondering if the black smoke underclothing, much of it belonging to as published, and this led to the disappearance of Mduns. Cuchet and Mdme an island amid the farmland and the was the last chapter in the lives of the Cecile Lacoste. In the kitchen a mattress covery of yet another of his aumerous Buisson, a third widow, known as Mdme found on the table seemed to bear blood- aliases, together with particulars of two Colomb, has also vanished from her home nearest house is a third of a mile away. women they had seen enter the house.

more supposed victims. In 1914. in the She and Laudru were very friendly. Once The new tenant gave the name of

Some two year age, about the time stains. Cartridges of different sizes were

nains of Diard. ke wooed and promised when Laudru was at a furniture deposi Georges Dupont. aged 50. and described that Madame Buisson disappeared, strewn about, and empty revolver cases;

tory, which was generally managed by his himself as an engineer. He made only three woodmen say they saw the tenant of but the only weapon was an old gun.

son, he was told that a policeman" bad named Cuchet, who lived with a son of 15 called to see him. This was about a According to the present proposals.. brief visits to the villa once a month or the lonely villa digging a long and deep There were also a number of phials 80. Here he was seen with various trench in a garden. Their curiosity was

CONTAINING COLOURED LIQUID- in the Faubourg St. Denis, Paris, where trifling railway offence, but Laudru Territoria units created since the war she carried on an underlinen business. turned pals and hurried away. He did will not be revived, and the reorganised temale companions, including a woman. so aroused that they returned the next lying about. bime Pelat, the sister of a Parisian day, nod were surprised to find all this Asked if a large trunk with the initials Laudry, indeed, seems to have shown a

not retura to the warehouse. There the force will consist of pre-war units. Ter- named

Shortly afterwards trouble had been taken merely to plant L belonged to him. Laudru said: marked preference for well-to-do widows. police have now taken possession of meritoris officers will be eligible to com Moreau. Mereau informed the police el the disa tiny pear tree. Dupont had also been Yes. Charles Landeu." But your name Madame Cuchet lived in comfortable Cachet's furniture and a quantity of her mind the brigaces and to fill positions on appearance of his sister, and the police seen to burn a large trank in the garden, is not Charles, and the initials are those style. had savings of 1.000 or 25.000, linen. A number of Laudru's letters were the Divisional and Brigade Staffs, and established the fact that she had been a and the disagreeable smell was gominent of Cecile Lacoste, whom you brought and a well-furnished rilla at La Chaussee found in a trunk Police records show in

the appointment of commanding Frequent visitor at Dupont's bungalow.ed upon at the time, Recently police here," was the reply. Moreover, the near Chantilly. When war broke out that there are seven convictions against officers for the battalions, regiments, and Sometimes Dupont was accompanied by a detectives arrived and made inquiries. label shows that the trunk came from Laudru. having been released from mili-Landru for wwindling, the last sentence batteries war record will count as 50 pár all, dark woman of about it. In the It leaked out that several families had Bayonne, her native town. Laudru then tary service on the ground of heart weak he served being one of three years at cent, at least as qualifications Warrant following year he came with a younger reported the mysterions disappearance said he bought the trunk from Cecileness, went to live with the pretty widow Lille in 1910. It was after his release and non-commissioned officers will be

In July, 1915. woman, whose gaiety and high spirit of women or girls who had gone to the Lacoste and gave her £90 to get rid of and her set at this house.

that he seems to have embarked on his found as far as possible fror those who ware commented on. She occupied the country with a man namer aither Guillet. her. Where did she go! he was they disappeared, and letters from Mme. Bluebeard career. Since he came out of have served in the field, and the Terri house alone with her younger sister for og Cuchet, or Premiet, whose description asked.

"Find out.

I know nothing uchet's sister were returned, marked prison in 1313 his family changed their torial Force Reserve of Officers is to be right or ten days. One Saturday Georges; tallied with that of the tenant of the about it." was his reply. Confronted

Gone away, no address." About this name and have seen very little of him. reconstituted. Dupont came down and was seen to leave lonely villa. In each case the man with the bodies of the two dogs belonging time Laudru, in the name of Cachet, rent Mile Segret, with whom he was living in alone the following day. The supposed described himself as a motor engineer. to Mlle Marchadier, Landra said the ed a cottage culled the Lodze, at Ver- the Rue Rochechouart, says she had second wife was not seen again. Text it! But Georges Dapont seemed to have young woman who owned them: asked him nouillet, near Hantes," and there the known him since 1917, bat went to live was the turn of a young girl who cama vanished, until one day Mlle. Lacoste, to kill them when she left, Perhaps couple lived for sonie time. Mme at the flat only last January. He had several times, and then did not reappear, sister of one of the missing women who you strangled her too." suggested the de Suchet's furniture was taken down from asked her to marry him, and mid his

Finally, in the middle of last January, i had herself stayed at the ville saw him tective. Laudru did not reply.

Paris to furnish the house. but the Chan Erst wife died of consumption. To ex .Dupont arrived from Paris by "train; come out a china-shop in the Rue de

tilly villa was left untouched. When the plain his frequent absences, he pretended at the neighbouring station of Houdan Rivoli. Paris. She lost right of him into He was arrested on the charge of with a good-looking, dark young woman the crowd. but inquiries at the shop led murder and fraud, and taken to the widow's brother-in-law visited it in search to belong to the secret police and to be served in each particular, branch during

of news he was somewhat disquicted to engaged in counter-espionage. In his who had two little dogs. They moved to the police to a base in the Rue de neighbouring town of Mantas. There he and there four military identity books in prison he has taken up an attitude of the mysterious villa, and the following Rechechouart, where Fred M. Guillet, an was questioned by the magistrate, and different names, together with a guantity indifference and unconcern. He confesses evening Dupont left alone. No one re-engineer. Georges Dupont had been said The feminine objects found at of documents and certificates showing he was a good deal of a Don Juan, but members sering the awner of the dogs found, and it was net long before he my home are love tokens given to me by that the so-called Diard was a married says that when he tired of a sweetheart man with a large family. Mme. Cuchet he merely let her go, and none of them have been found under a heap of leaves in twice sentenced to three years imprison to the villa last January asked me to kill herself visited the house during Diard's had reason to complain of his treatment again. Now, however, the dogs' bodies was identified as André Desire Landra, former sweethearts. The one who came the stables, and the identity of the pretty ment for trand Detectives confronted her two dogs because they were too costly absence the following Sunday and found a to, where they are now, that is the dark girl established. She was Marie him at his flat with his police photograph, to feed. I killed my own dog at the same papers proving that the man's name was business of the police to discover. To Theres, Marchadier, a girl who never and, after Grat attempting to bluster, he time. I am a swindler, but not an is really Daudru, and that he was married his counsel, who says he is a man of more

assin." knew her paients and was brought up at admitted his identity. Landru was living

She also found letters addressed by him than sordinary intelligence. Laudru re- the State's expense and afterwards drift with a young woman named Segret, who Laudru owns a motor garage in the Rue to be called for by women in answer to marked : "They want to make me the ed into a bappy-go-lucky existence. Dur- passed as his wife When the flat was Clichy, Paris, but rarely went there: the matrimonial advertisements. The greatly villain of a fantastic penny novelette, but ing her light-hearted career she was searched, says the Petit Journal, several business being managed by a son aged distressed widow told her sister and I will not have it. and shall know how known as Zarn, and her true affections Incks of women's hair of different shades. In this garage a blood-stained cord. brother-in-law that she would have no to defend myself He is a very plau- were bestowed on her grifen dogs named were found, together with lingerie bear forming a running noose, has been found. I more to do with her fiance and returned sible talker and effects ultra-polite Loulou. Mimi, and Auguste.. Dupont ing various marks, ribbons. small sou together with a greep canvas sheet. also to Paris with them. The same evening, manners, offering visitors a prison chair met her on January ist of this year, and venirs, and feminine trifles. In a trunk blood-stained, and a quantity of tarred however, Laudru appeared, and the in with an ingratiating smirk, and apole- 20 days later she disappeared. Zará were halt a dozen parketa-containing (twinë.

fatuated woman seems to have gone off gising for his lack of collar and tiel

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BOSTOCK'S

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Other points in the scheine outlined by Mr. Churchill were:

Probable reformation of the National Resurré.

Pay during training to be that of the Regular Army.

Recruiting only open to those who have

the war, or in the Volunteers,-

Legal obligation on employers to grant leave for annual training.

Men to be 6t for general service, and between 18 and 41.

Engagement for two years, with

power Force not to be sent oversens until ar

to renew.

unless the emergents is so serious as to require a general Military Service Act.

Men serving on cld Territorial attesta tions not to be called up again on thewe attestations, but given an opportunity to renew on the new terms.

Force to be completely provided with all clothing, transport, and equipment required for mobilisation.

Grants which have been in abeyaneà during the war to be re-established,

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