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Show BLUEBEARD7 WAS SPY, QfE THEORY Paris Uneasy, As Direct Murder Evidence Was Not Introduced PARIS. Jan. 14. The Idea that I Henri D. Lamlru may have been a I master spy who employed as his agents the ten women he is convicted o murdering has been advanced by Henri Javal, a member of tho Paris I bar. This s-ggestlon is advanced In an i effort to account for th fact that no i ellrect evidence of tho murders was brought out at Landru'l trial Tho absence ab-sence of this evidence has caused a feeling of uncertainty by most Paris-lens Paris-lens in regard to this mysterious case ; and numerous attempts have been made to solve the mystery on some other basis than murder MET III DKEDS DAIXl Developing his theory, Maitre Java I says- I "Elecn persons, ten fiancees and the son of on of them, have disappeared disap-peared Iundru alouo knows what I has become of Lhem, and he e iya ' nothlnK li his silence he puts 4ns i heael at stake. This can only mean 'that the truth, were It known, would ' bo as fatal for him LJut the whole ' affair takes on another complexion if , we imagine for the sake of arguiii' nt, that his victims wore his accomplices in crime, and that crime espionage "Let us suppose." he continues, "that during tho war Landru w is ,i German spy-recruiting agent. He prefers pre-fers to work through women. At once this expl tins his meetings, sometimes five in the same day. with hundreds of women, of whom he chooses only a few. and those few without friends er relatives who might be surprised at their long absence. He takes a lonely lone-ly villa us far from other habitations as possible whoro he can receive them. There he fabricates false Identity pipers for them, keeping their own, and sends them forth on their missions mis-sions of treason. Arrested. Landru says nothing, and his "victims" naturally na-turally do not break th- silence, PAPERS ARE RETAINED. I "Can you Imagine, by any other i hypothesis." Maitre Jaal concludes I "why so careful, e'alculating a crinil-I crinil-I mil as Lanelru should burn the bodies of hIS victims with great difficulty and yot neghct to throw Into tho all-consuming flames sue b damaging evl- d.'M' -is th'ir identity papers'" "And does not this theory explain why ho should keep such an Incriminating Incrim-inating document us the diary. In ! which reference to his victims is made by initials other than the'- own .' lie I needed their Identity pasters and the ontrles In his diary to show to those i who employed him as a recruiter of I spies " |