New-York tribune., 1921-11-16
Girls Mother, i'm
Mysteries, Accuses
Landru of Murder
Prove It, Says 'Bluebeard,'
Asserting He Befriended
Young Woman He Found
Weeping; Stove Missing
Special Gable to Tho Tribune

Copyright, 1924, New York Tribune Inc,
VERSAILLES, Nov. 15.--Henri Lar
dru, the "Bluebeard of Gambais,"
charged with the murder Of ten women
and a boy, sat unmoved to-day when
the mother of Andree Babelay, one of
his alleged victims, sprang from her
seat in the courtroom and shaking her
fists at the prisoner, accused him of the
assassination of her nineteen-year-o old
daughter.
"prove it," retorted Landru delib-
erately, while Nine. Babelay went into
Mysteries.
The prisoner made the same retort to
his accusers during the four hours he
was under examination this afternoon.
repeating his continual defiance, "You
accuse me of assassinations; prove
them"
Tho Babelay girl is the sixth in the
list of alleged victims whom the state
has brought into the case thus far.
Unlike the others, she possessed no
furniture, jewels or money, and, ac-
cording to Landru's story, he befriend-
ed her when she was in desperate
straits. 1t was the first case in which
he was unable to plead that his rela-
tions with the alleged victim were
simply commercial.
Landru asserted that he found the
girl early in 1917 crying in Paris sub
way station. He says he gallantly COM
forted her, and learned that she had
quarreled with her mother and dared
not return home. Under questioning
by the judge Landau admitted taking
the girl to an apartment he had rented
IN Paris, and later, in the month of
April, he took her to his Gambais villa.
where' the prosecution charges, she
was murdered like the others.
II am not responsible for this young
girls disappearance" the prisoner
asserted, nor any other women YOU
have questioned me about Andree
Babelay left me without saying where
she was going"
He admitted having in his possession
after she had disappeared her personal
papers, but explained that these were
merely deposited with him on account
of money he had loaned her.
Evidence showed that when Landr1
and the girl left Paris for Gambais. he
bought one single trip ticket and one
round trip one and that he returned to
Paris without the girl
VERSAILLES, Nov. is (By The AS
oON'utCu AlSSoJ.-- ne COOKING stove
! which once belonged in the villa of
Landru was missing to-day from among
the states exhibits in the case. 1t is
charged by the prosecution that I.andru
cremated his eleven alleged victims in
this stove.
Prosecutor Godefrol had permitted a
stovemaker to take possession of the
exhibit in order that he might make
two or three lighter molds of the
stove for production before the Jurors.
When called upon to-day to produce
the stove the stovemaker said he had
been unable to find it. He said he
thought practical jokers. or perhaps
real buglars, had carried it away.
Landru to-day showed some i'm
patience over the Importance which the
newspapers and public opinion arc Civ
ing to his trial.
There is question of disarmament
going on in Washington which is much
more important than the Landru case"
the prisoner declared to Judge Gilbart
during the course of the examination.
NJ. Moro-Giafferi, of counsel for
Landru, said to-day that he would
plead insanity for his client. He said
the prisoners expression concerning
the relative Importance of his trial as
compared with the Washington confer
ence would be submitted to the court
as evidence that Landru suffers from
mera lOmania