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Show oo CUT OFF HIS HEAD When his head fell into a basket on Friday morning as the Angelus bells of Pans were ringing. Henri Landru, the Bluebeard of Gatnbais, paid the full price of his offending Landru is estimated to have victim ized 283 women of all ages, from 0 io 60. He answered advertisements in the matrimonial papers of Paris and, inielgling his trusting, deluded, love-nick love-nick women to his cottage at Gambais, a few miles from Paris, he did away with them. How many he murdered no one knows No trace of those killed could be found, except a few bones and some hair. These unusual crimes are a reminder remin-der that there are men and women of such mental make up as to be fiends. The ordinary man or woman could be driven to no such blood out rage as Landru performed in almost endless number. The cutting off a murderer. s hr.nl. with the blood spurting, must be a gruesome sight, and those who perform per-form the task must become so bard ened as to value human life cheaply . We look upon the Lethal chamber at i arson, where the Nevada authorities are to put two Chinese tong men to sleep, as a tcreat improvement on the guillotine, and both are to be preferred to the rack on which prisoners were tortured to death However, Landru is in the grave and his day of treachery and murder has passed. While putting murderers to death does not act as a deterrent and cuts off the head of no crime, the big thing that it does is to help prevent the earth being encumbered with low, brutalized men of murderous instincts |