The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-11

and his victims are the chief object
 of discussion in the little French res
 taurants.
 I have been to several of these res [ taurants during the last few days
 and I have listened to the observa-
 tions of more than one woman wh> identified Landru the moment they
 saw his photograph in the papers
 And here is a lifelike picture of the l Bluebeard as I heard 1t from the lips 1 of one young Frenchwoman.
 Yes, she said, her lips curling as she scTutinized his photo, that is Landru-that is Monsieur le DiabIe- as true as if he was standing before 1 me at this moment The eyes,
 would recognize them anywhere | They seem to speak to you, to over. | whelm you with their glance. Oh ! the devil! Death to him! Guillottne 1 kim! Do not even try him!' 1 And madame poured forth her feel 1 ings of indignation and contempt
 without the slightest effort at re- | straint.
 Was he really charming" ] He was revoItingly ugly" flash 1 ed the woman, "only there was some | influence in his manner which wo- | man could not resist. When he spoke l he compelled you; when he looked I with those deep. penetrating dark l eyes he thrilled and conquered Tn a bus. in a train, in a restau- rant, wherever Landru went he l drew attention, and the moment you 1 looked in his direction he would bow 1 with such grace and sweetness that you felt embarrassed and forthwith | entered into conversation" he
 and key I>andru is not likely to pay London a return visit, but that he victimized English as well as French ! women is as certain as night follows day.
 Meantime exhaustive inquiries are afoot to unmask his record, and when this is done the French Courts will be with story the like of which has not been disclosed in the annals of crime.
 Parts Discovered by Detectives. The latest discoveries by the Paris detectives handling the case suggest | that Bluebeard, under the cover of | darkness, threw the grilIed flesh of some of his victims into a lonely | pend.
 So far Bluebeard's victims are be- | lieved to number eleven-ten women l and the seventeen-year-o son of one | of the women.
 These are believed to have been enticed by Bluebeard to his lonely and mysterious villa in the village Of | Gambais and there murdered. The villa has been made to yield some of its ghastly secrets, for after z long and patient search the police have discovered fragments of human | bones, a lock or so of feminine hair, m oF | These are supposed to be relics of the victims.
 These few fragments of bone, how l ever, scarcely account for the dis 1 appearance of eleven people, and they left the police still anxious to find the secret of how he disposed of ! his victims.
 At least one gap in the chain of evidence seems to be filled by an other witness who has now come for ward-a young Army doctor. It is he who tells the story which seems to point to the fact that BIuebeard carved some of his victims up into portions, and dropped them into a neighboring pond at night, after grill ling the flesh in the kitchen grate. This witness is Surgeon Maior Montheilet, of the French Army. The pond in question is known as the Heath Pond. It is a stretch of water about half a mile across, situated in q wood on the side of a lonely part of the road leading from Gambofs to the neighborfng village of GambaisueiI.
 The pond is inaccessible on three sides, being fringed with dense rurze growing in a quagmire, but at one point there is a jetty stretching half way across the pond. On the jettv is
 htrrr 4r bottomed boat. The nearest habita- tion is a gamekeeper's house in the wood
 A Weird Nocturnal Adventure.
 Dr. Montheilet says that at the beginning. of June, 1915, he paid a visit to a relative of his, who is a nun at the Gambais Convent
 Late in the evening he set out to cycle back to Versailles Barracks When passing Iandru's villa he ob served strong smell as of burnt meat and saw thick smoke coming from the chimney of the villa. small motor-car stood at the en- trance to the villa. He thought the villa was still occupied by a family named Trio, from whom Landru rented it. and remarked to himself What strange meal is Mme Trio cooking tonight ?''
 Little thinking what was afoot the young doctor went on his way but a puncture compelled him to ston at the Heath Pond
 As he was about to mount again after mending his puncture. he heard motorcar approaching. and in the moonlight he recognized it as the small car which was standing in front of the villa.
 The motor pulled up near the pond and bearded man got out carrying a large parcel on his shoulder. The bearded man walked along a path close to the pond. He disappeared from sight, and when he came into view he was without the parcel. The doctor also heard something splash into the pond.
 He paid no further atten tion to the matter, imagining that the man was a poacher who had thrown a net into the water. He has now been shown a photograph of Landru, and all though he had seen the supposed poacher by moonlight and in profile he irnn ediately recognized the photo