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Show tOURT DEFERS TRIAL OF ALLEGED SLAYER Frenchman Accused of Murdering Mur-dering Eleven Women TARIS, Feb. II. Henri Desire Tndru, under Indictment for tho murder of eh ven women to whom at various times he had promised marriage, and whose trill before the French assises had been set for March 1, haa succeeded In obtaining obtain-ing another postponement of his trial. Iandru has been In jail for two years and rece.it ly was sentenced to five years In Jail and subsequent deportation for windlirg. I'nder French Isw, a man accused of crime has the right to take cognisance of the downier In his case lefore facing the Jury. He may make a fight upon the legality of any of the documents being submitted to the Jury. The dossier In JandTu's case Includes 7oo documents, sll of which have to be copied, as the public prosecutor d-s not trust the originals in the handtt of the accused. The work of copying the documents docu-ments will occupy more than a month. Iandru has informed the court that he; will require severs 1 weeks In which to I studv the documents, as he Intends to challenge sll of I hem as Irrelevant. Ijindru caufed considerable worry and annoyance to Judge Bonin while the latter lat-ter was investigating the case, and now that It has tM-en turned over to the prosecutor of the republic, he has adopted the same tactics. To one of the asaistsnts of the prosecutor prose-cutor who reproached him with procrastination, procras-tination, saving that French Justice has other things to look after than th Ian- J dry caee, the alleged Samtais Bluebeard replied : "Then why don't you let me o. T am Perfectly willing." Then he added: "How I miss judge Bonin. At Itrat, he was a Iff rill man." i |