The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-26
BLUEBEARD IN
 PARIS IS CLAIM
Copyright, 1919, By the International
 News Bureau, Inc) (By Vazariene Daan kennibelle)

! (By FaZariene DaAn henntbelle.) Paris. May 23.-Startling revela- | tions in the case of Henri Landru. | whom the Paris police declare to be | a modern bluebeard. It is stated that only half an hour before his arrest he was trying to inveigle yet another | victim.
 l His victims are now believed to l number eleven; the police have Is | sued a list of eight names, but are withholding the other three until they have made further investigations. All the victims, with one exception, are women-women with comfortab ble | fortunes. They are supposed to have 1 been lured to a lonely villa near the village of Gambais. about 20 miles from Paris, and there murdered. At any rate. they have never been seen again. Their fortunes, however, seem 1 to have remained in the possession of Landru.
 No trace has yet been found of any of the women's bodies in spite of repeated systematic searches of the grounds of the mysterious villa The popular theory is that he burned them, but it is an exceedingly difficult thing to completely destroy a human body by burning. It Is this complete disappearance which is proving a SDIIleWAdI Dd1lAILS pI OSAOiAA NAAS police.
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 However, the fact that he feared that he would be caught by the pol Ice does not seem to have prevented his doing his best to get another vic tim. According to a story told to the police by 9. Mile. Deschamps he was endeavoring to ensnare here half an hour before his arrest.
 A letter from this lady to Landru, intercepted by the police caused them to visit her. This Is the story she told
 "I'm sure that man has the powers of a demon," she said. T met him in the tube train, and fortunately our acuuaintance was short; but brief though it was he exerted wanderful influence over me
 He sat opposite me in the train. I had never seen him before, but his face seemed to fascinate me some how I simply couldn't help looking at him.
 Then he made a comm onplace re- mark He looked at me tenderly as he did so. and the look seemed to inspire me. with an irrational confidence He followed up his remark with others, and the other women in the carriage listened to our conversation and seem ed envious of me. You simply cannon explain the powers of the man. He bewitches .. woman.
 We can't talk here. he said sud denly, Let's get out at the next sta ton demurred The next station was not my station, but when we ran into it he opened the door, took mo by the arm and I felt compelled to obey. He smiled at me in such strange manner I couldn't resist him. It was the Opera Station, and Iol- lowed Iandru through the corrldor enchanted by his delicate charTning conversation An, he knows now 10 captivate women I was in a oeautllui dream, conquered by listening to words which sounded like sweet music "He made me promise to meet h1m before he left me. He handed me card bearing the name Of Auclen Gufl1et" manufacturer, with Paris address. He said he would take me for a motor trip when he met me next time. and show me his villa in the country He said the villa was charming little paradise among trees. .ewhen I had collected my wits l found that would not be able 10 keep the appointment so I wrote him. (lt was this letter which was intercept ed by the police.)
 ..It appears that he was arrested half an hour afterwards" she added | "and the next day I saw his photo in the papers and recognized it as my charmer.
 Landru's photograph has been rec ognized by M. Darcy, manager Of Fal- marium Concert Company as that of man who twice visited a Mime. Benoit,. who has disappeared without leaving any trace. Was she another victim? Among Landru's papers are several showing programs Of the faimarlum' m' His notebook of expenses contains en- tries showing that more than once he paid double fares to Gambais but only a single fare on his return. Posed as French Consul. An extraordinary set of circumstan- ces has come to light in connection with inc disappearance of Madame Guillin. In her youth Madame Guillin, married but her husband died early.