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Show FRENCH GLUEBEARD EVADES PUNISHMENT PARIS. Feb. 12. Henri Desire j LAndru, under indictment charged with the murder of eleven women to: whom at various times he had promised prom-ised marriage, and whose trial before the French A --sizes had been set for March, has succeeded In obtaining another postponement of his trial. Landru has been in Jail for two years and recently was sentonced to five years In Jail and subsequent deportation deporta-tion for swindling. Cnder French law. a man accused of crime has the right to take cognizance cog-nizance of the dossier In his case before be-fore facing the Jury. He may make a flbt upon the legality of anv of I the documents being submitted to the Jury. Tho 'dossier In LShdru's case includes in-cludes 7.000 documents, all of which', have to be copied, us the public prosecutor pros-ecutor does not trust tho originals In i the hands of the accused. Tho work j of copying the documents will occupy more than a month. Lahdru has informed the court that' he will require several weeks In which to study the- documents as he Intends i to challenge- all of them as Irrelevant.) Landru caused considerable worry' and annoyance to Judge Honln while' the latter was investigating the case H and now that it has been turned over to the prosecutor of the republic he H has adopted the same tactics. H To one of the assistants of the pros-ecutor pros-ecutor who reproached him with pro-crastlnatlon pro-crastlnatlon saying that French Jus-tlce Jus-tlce has other things to look after than the Landru case, the alleged Gambuls Bluebeard replied: "Then why don't von let me ro, I am perfectly willing." Then he added: "How I miss Judge Ronln. At least, ho was u gentleman " |