Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-13 | Page 27 | "Bluebeard" is Scheming to Delay Trial on Charge of Slaying 10 Women; Relies on Legal Tricks to Escape Justice in Paris Court

"Bluebeard" is Scheming to Delay Tnai on Charge of Slaying 10 Women: Relies on Legal Tricks to Escape Justice in Paris Courts (B) M.Wsl'M'l R ENTERPRISE) PARIS, -Mar 12. "The cnlpabllHy of the accused In thp crimes Imputed to him duos not admit of doubt. However, How-ever, it is impossible lo say how he killed his victims." Thus runs the accusation which, according ac-cording to French law. a Parisian judsre has read to the French Bluebeard. Blue-beard. Henri Desire Landru, who'la . barged with having killed ten women for their money. He also Is accused Of killing the son of one of the women He has been in prison wince April, 191ft, having been arrested on his fiftieth fif-tieth birthday anniversary. Iandru is employing his knowledge ..f Kr. neh lav. to deley his actual trial .which has been fixed for this month There ar 7000 documents in the dossier apalnst him. He Insists ho must have time to read and study each However, the prosecuting officials of-ficials say he has had time eiidugh. RELATIVES COMPLAIN La mini's exposure came about when relatives of Anna Morcau Collomb complained to the police that she had mysteriously disappeared She had last been tteen with a man known as Fremyet, who also had disappeared. dis-appeared. The police had about given up hope of finding either when a woman friend of .Tl ida me r.dtomh sa w Fremyet In a shop on the Kue de Vlvol. She pointed him out to the police who arrested ar-rested hirn and Identified him ns Landru. Lan-dru. A search of his papers at the place where he last dwelt showed that ho had 1. n swindling women. The police po-lice say there were 283 of those victims. vic-tims. Fremyet, or Landru, denied having hav-ing Injured Madame Collomb, but the police claim they found in his pocket a notebook on one of whose pages there was a list of the eleven victims With whose murder ho is charged. iithr haunts of Landru were then scrolled and more incriminating evidence evi-dence wae found CUT UP VICTIMS In the formal accusation against 'him It is asserted that both by his own' notebooks and by other means It Is established that after killing liW victims at his country estate hp decapitated de-capitated them, burned the heads and limbs and then either buried the remainder re-mainder of the corpse or threw it Into a river. The staU. further averts that ln his villa thoro have bt'on uml fragments of human bones recognized as those of women. Some of these bones had been cut with a hatchet, some with a saw. . . . n his notebooks, Landru set down thai ho had made oonsldei able pnr-fltiasca pnr-fltiasca of metal saws. Also In this villa were found hairpins, hrooche.s and metallic fragments of corset fittings In preparation for Ids trial, the court has had landru examined by alienists, who have declared that hr is sane. One of Landru's defenders is u woman wom-an whom the police say he cheated lout of money. This woman. Madame 'Lebaudy who lost her husband durlni; !the war." strenously denies that Lnn-!dru Lnn-!dru robbed her. I She says she lent him some mono) in a business matter and desires to appear as a witness for him. She fur- Xandru is one of Ihe kindest ind gentlest of men and an Ideal lover. He 1 a man any woman might be proud to have as a husband. The Ln-dru Ln-dru I knew was incapable i of giving pain to any living creature"