The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
SLAVE GIRL MURDERS MASTER
SHOT HIM IN THE BACK IN THE
VERY HANDS OF TIE POLICE.
Shot Him Again After He Had Dropped
Stone Dead-He Brought Her Hero
From France and beat Her Because
She did Not Earn Enough on the Street.

Stone Dead-He brought Her Hero
From France and beat Her Because
She Did Not Earn Enough on the street.
Berthe Claiche, French girl OF p. sAo.
and killed Emil Gerdron, her lover, last
night at Seventh avenue and Twenty-fifth
street. She had supported Gerdron bv
what she made on the street, so she said
after she shot him, and three weeks ago he
beat her because she did not bring In enough
money.
At that time she went to tho Tenderloin
station and showed her face and neck.
blue from blows, to the sergeant, and Do
tective Morton was sent out to find Gerdron-
He had disappeared.
Last night Morton, who had been trans
ferred to the bicycle squad, was riding up
Seventh avenue about $40 o'clock with De-
tectives Martineau and Billefer. They met
the girl at Twenty street. She was
excited and nervous.
III you will wait here a moment you
will catch Gerdron." she said.
They waited on the west side Of the street,
and few minutes later Gerdron came
up the avenue with Francis De Gandon-
Morton and Martineau grabbed him and
pun aiiSSb oi VIC Ni'oA D.
assault made by the girl three weeks ago.
They started down the street with him,
on the way to the West Twentieth street
| station. Gerdron was furious and tried
to get at the girl.
I'm kill your he screamed. You Will
have me arrestedy Well. you are as good
as dead, right now
The detectives yanked Gerdron away
and walked him rapidly down the avenue.
| The girl hung back Suddenly she drew
revolver from the bosom OF her dress,
slipped up behind Gerdron, and fred two
/ shots into his back, the pistol so close that
the powder burned a hole in his coat. Gerd-
ron dropped dead as stone. Before the
detectives could stop her she knelt on his
| body and fred another shot into his stomach
Ds Gandon who had been following.
struck at the girl and cursed her. Mar
tineau and Morton arrested him on the
charge OF disorderly conduct. crowd
gathered fast and the detectives hustled
the girl and De Gandon TO the police sta
ton. They sent her to Headquarters and
she was questioned.
Il am glad I killed him. she said. Il
am glad and I would do 1t over twenty
times He made me his slave. fed him
and cared for him and he beat me until l
was half dead. He'll never raise hand
to another woman"
| She told the police that she was brought
up in little town in France with Gerdron
and that six years ago he induced her to
leave her mother and father and come TO
New York with him. Sho was then II years
old.
Gerdron had promised to marry her, but
when they got here he sent her out ON the
streets and told her she was pretty enough
to make living for both Of them. Since
then. she said, her life had been plain hell.
| She tried to get free. she told the police, but
Gerdron threatened to kill her if she ever
complained and beat her whenever she
cried.
One night about three weeks ago she
went to their room at 200 Seventh avenue
and gave him s.. He wanted to know
why she didn't have more and knocked
her down and half strangled her.
Last light she saw him about o'clock
and found out from friend where he would
be later in the evening She bought a
cheap revolver and waited for him at Sew
enth avenue and Twenty-nfth street
When she saw the police she intended, she
said, to let them lock him up, but his threat
to XIII her frightened her and she shot him.
Cprdrons body was taken to the West
Twentieth street station and Coroner
Schoer examined II. He fouud that any
one OF the three shots would lave killed
him. The Coroner found in his pockets
a locket with a miniature pointing of the
girl in it and a chain purse containing a
few doliar3