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Show GRAVE COVERS LANDRU SECRET Real Wife Who Divorced "Bluebeard" Hides Away From World BY WTLLIAM COOK (International News Service VERSAILLES. Franco, Feb. 2R. j Tho body of Henri Dandru, who was J executed on tho guillotine for thu murder of 10 'finances" and tho son of one of thom, fills a nameless gravo ! In Versailles cemetery' tonight-I tonight-I Landru, known as the "French ; hlunbeard," carried to the gravo with j him the secret of the 10 women who disappeared and whom he was con- vlcted of killing for their life savings. Iandru protested Innocence until the last minute and went to his death w Ith the same gameness that marked his behavior slnco his arrest In 1919. A morbidly curious crowd of mon and women saw Iandru die at daybreak Just outside St. Plere prison. DIDN'T CLAIM BODY J Under an assumed name in a small bakers shop In a shabby street of tho Parisian surburb of Clichy is a woman whoso life has boon wrecked I hi I-andru Sho is hla real wife who divorced his after his arrest and after i charges of wholesale murder hul been' brought against him. Shocked bv rev- elatlona that her husband had made love to women by tho score promised! to marry most of them, f not all, ana had oven killed some cf them, Mme. ' Landru deserted her husband and took her children with her. She did not attend Iindru's trial In October, she did not witness tho execution nor did she claim the body. Mme. Iandru Is known as Mme. "X" . -jv i u tngin snij is a woman of mystery'- KARDY LIFE HAPPY When Landru married his first and real wife be had not yot taken to a life of crimes. In fact, ho waa employed em-ployed as a sub-deacon at the church of St Louls-en-L' Isle where, In his boyhood, ho had been a choir boy and worshipped. Mme. Landru llvod in the little town and hor maiden namo was Mile. Remy, 'Our courtship waa brlof and uneventful un-eventful nnd we soon went to Paris." Mme. Landru told a friend who made the brief Journey from Versailles to Clichy to see her. "My husband was a model of conduct. con-duct. During the first six years of our married life, four children were Dorn j and wo war vory happy." |