Show CULT GUL T STIRS WORLD WITH GRIMES I l Modern Modem Bluebeards Rival E r t- t Deeds Recorded in Le Legends Leg Leg- r i. ends French Woman Now Under Suspicion By Universal Service I LO- LO LONDON LOOr Or Sept 3 Tho 3 Tho cult of ot Blue- Blue which both In legend and n 11 fact tact may be he traced back thousands f t years to the dim period when the tho written word was not seems to be un- un one of ot Its periodic revivals rc In Franco France Mme Dulac who after atter ome vivid matrimonial adventures adventure isow Is Isow Isow ow suspected of ot having killed her and and bUrn burned d his bod body rivals andru In tho the sensational news of ot tho the lament foment A few tow months ago an nn Amern Amer- Amer din hn n by the tho name of t Harvey Haney confessed o 0 the drowning of ot two wives and the tho eating to death of ot two others with a t ammer Ho had been married e five times Umes he said when convicted sd the tho Jekyll and Hyde existence reed arced on him by a n. diseased mentality nit would not let him leave leavo them live has a a. prominent places place 1 s tho the folk tolk lore lorf of t most races The arId orld's most famous collection of ot tho odes tho Arabian Nights r entertain entertain- lents had tents had its beginning In the Sultan shah Rears plan as a n revenge for he misconduct of ot one ono wife to kill a others after a a. thousand suc- suc nights nights nights-a a- a aplan plan which he ho cared cared cared car car- ed out until broke the sequence with her tales ELEVEN All AU dom Sla knows the tho gend of ot the husband who killed eleven Ives and was only prevented from Crom aying the twelfth by a n. herd goose-herd id ld story of ot Blue Blue Blue- ard himself himself has has b been en n adopted b by the talo try compilers of every western Ulon But times without number the Blue- Blue ard myths like man many others others the tho Wolf ere ere Volt Pumpkin tho the Lorelei nong Dong them them have have been dramatized by ator story Tho The original of ot character 03 IUS Gilles do Retz or 01 else to Ie e Cursed a a. Breton chief chic of ot the sixth who disposed of several eral brides It at failed to destroy his last I IA Ie e H Holy l whom St St. afterwards afterwards i 16 le e of the saints of ot Caldy island Pem- Pem rescued rescued after atter she sho had h been en tacked and abandoned in the wood Nero and provided Blue- Blue with a period of ot magnificence tring the Roman empire but perhaps attained Its heyday heyda in the tho Ince when the Borgias and d found novel ways was of ot elim- elim lUng unwanted spouses Tho The English can point proudly to nry mry the Eighth as IUS the splendid ex- ex ment of ot tho the cult at this era r emale Female Bluebeards of ot fancy tancy and fact lye ae ever been as plentiful and as in- in nU e as the male of ot the tho species who ho founded Babylon Bablon never ked ed a consort for tor long and says leg- leg nd d never scrupled to rid herself of la ye when her Interest waned The Medea of ot Euripides boiled her hr in a pot and tho the Russian Balt Bal- Bal t of today luridly mimics tho the stor story of of hamar the Georgian queen who en- en ced eed tm travelers to a room high In her hor tie and had them thrown down a alAin lAin ain after alter she had satisfied her wickI wick wick- I will I The female Bluebeards of ot the Re- Re far outshone the males Luezia Lu- Lu ezia Borgia and Catherine Catherie e de dc Medici e ro remembered far tar more for Cor their subs sube sub- sub o s methods of or destroying husbands and vers than for tor their stated statecraft aft I Much more recently tho the cases of of me and Landru not to nUon Crippen and the Brides in the th th the cult into public Is 11 ordinarily criminal J is Js it a mania Induced by an instinct tat Fat t is diseased and inherited Most who are not kings and acena have suffered red the tho penalty for Cor but there are mental special special- its 3 who uphold the claim of or Harve Harvey twenty five times married Amerin Amerl- Amerl ln n n. n whose nature Just would not let pi leave his wives hes alone when it posed him from Jekyll normality Hydo 1 madness |