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Show FRENCH 'BLUEBEARD IS PAINED AT TREATMENT PARIS. July 31 M. Landru. the iGambals "Bluebeard," as tho police call him, when Informed that three alienists had declared he w,t? sane andi responsible for his actions replied) melanchollcally: "I am pained that; ,1 cannot say the same about the men ,vho are hounding me." i Landru will come up for trial Aug-;u-t 4 on charges of eleven counts of1 murder growing out of tho disappearance disappear-ance of ns man" women to whom he bad prpmlsed marriage. ''You charge me with murder," exclaimed ex-claimed Landru to Judge Bonin. "mur-Iders, "mur-Iders, 11 of them. I am shocked' These (women have disappeared. I do notl 'dispute the fact. They had had disagreements dis-agreements with their families. Let nie free and I shall find them. You' jaccuse me of having had ten mis-' .tresses. 1 plead trullty Where Is the1 'Parisian, aged 50. who has not had ;nt least twelve mistresses. Will he boj guillotined for having mistresses? And' 'pray, why have I committed all these I I abominations ? To rob my victims0! I I if what? They had nothinVr but Russian Rus-sian securities and their furniture was of the cheap variety. Don't pester the French public with 'the Landru case'' any longer Secure our indemnity 1 from the Germans. That is the most 'momentous question." |