The Washington times., 1922-08-20

btoNoppiu8s AcauluB into tuc Cuin1-
ney Of the cooking-stove.
BY . o'clock In the morning he
had his portable furnace ready.
While he worked at its construc-
ton he had smoked many cigar
cites. It was raining heavily. and
the night was very dark. In the
room above were the corpses Of his
two poor victims-the woman with
her face bruised by his brutal blow
and the boy huddled dead In an
armchair.
When Landru had prepared
everything. he made q test. and
from the flexible pipe Of the gas
generator there suddenly roared q
long. bright blue flame. 20 brilliant
that, not wearing protective spec
tacles, It almost blinded him.
A most diabolical scheme was
about to he put into practice.
With that sharp and fearful
point of heat he could sever any
substance. Hence he could. by
narrowing the point Of flame, cut
through a human body and thus
dismember II.
His criminal mentaiities were
such that he had. as he always did,
guarded himself against any con-
tingency.
There. within that small kitchen,
with neighbors on either side, stood
the scientifically constructed oven
Of fire bricks, while beside It was
the heat generator which could in
an instant destroy. or render
molten, almost any substance.
NOT FIRST CRIME.
The great assassin acted a. one
to whom murder was an every.
day occupation. Already he had
had dealings with q hundred
women. or more. Probably this
double crime was not his first.
Who knows7 At any rate. his
actions were those of one who
had brought assassination, With
the obliteration Of its traces. to 1
fine art ...,. "a. s..,.. 4.
Again he made certain that the
jet Of intense heat acted properly,
shading his eyes with his hand
and gazing through the cracks
between his fingers.
Then he ascended to his bed
room, where he put on q pair of
goggles which he had taken from
the welder's bench at the garage.
These. with his bald head. ivory
completion and full beard, gaye
him the hideous appearance of an
ogre In human shape-as indeed
he was.
He had that night committed a
double murder. yet his actions
were rs methodical as though II
were all a mere matter of busi-
ness. With Henri Landru, alias
Raymond Diard, love and murder
stalked hand-in.hand.
When all was ready, Landru
ascended, to the little dining room
where the two corpses lay. The
gas burned dimly. for during the
night hours at Verouillet press
ure is but poor. Upon the table
stood the dirty coffee cups, some
bananas. the bottle Of poisoned
wine and the two glasses emptied
to his success" What irony!
Landru was nothing II not q YER
table artist in crime.
He had embarked upon a great
criminal adventure. the greatest
and most insidious that any man
could conceive, and with hard
callousness he was carrying out
his subtle and cunning plans to
their terrible end.
Landru, was indeed the most
marvellous criminal of our own
or Of any other age.
He stood regarding his victims
with evident self-satisfact ction.
Then he took the remainder of
the wine and the glasses to the
kitchen. where he carefully
poured the wine down the sink
and afterwards washed the glass
es. He carried the bottle down.
stairs and placed It in his impro-
vised oven.
Re-ascending, he dragged down
the body Of the woman to the
kitchen where, before his impro-
vised crucible, he dismembered Il
just as It was by means Of the
acetylene jet; hence no blood g.
capped, or what did escape was
soaked up by the carpet Of sand.
BRICKS GLOwED WITH HEAT.
Afterwards he placed the re-
mains in the brick.built oven,
and with the aid of his let sue.
ceeded in generating such a
terrific heat that the bricks soon
glowed a dull red, which increased
until they showed a glaring white
heat, while the atmosphere In the