The Washington times., 1922-09-10
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where she sat in that well
furnished room in the Place DAN
court. ~
As Elise sat there. the descrip-
tion OF the rooms In the Rue des
Petits-C Champs. given by her friend
Madame Picard, recurred to her.
They were exact. Yet 90 COM
pletely fascinated was she by her
lover that she felt II impossible to
doubt him. -...
He whispered into her ear many
lines of amorous love-lyrics which
he had learned and repeated par
rot-like to all his victims, just as
the notorious Rasputin repeated
the tenets Of his mock-religion to
his female dupes in Petrograd.
Landru was an assassin, q great
irresistible lover, while .Rasputin
was equally lover. who fascinated
even the Empress Of all the Rus
sias.
But Landru, as q great criminal
of the amorous type, stands ont
not only enigmatic. but unsur-
passed--assuredly the greatest
criminal lover the world has ever
known. From every point Of view
he was amazing.
Next day he wrote to Madame
Elise an apology for not being able
to. meet her till late that evening.
The truth was that to one Of his
matrimonial advertisements he had
received q response from q certain
woman named Heon. a widow. who
possessed her own apartment in
Paris, and whose daughter-a war
widow-also had a house out at
Ermont in the Seine-et-Oise.
LIVED AT VERSAILLES.
Madame Heon was at the mo-
ment living with a friend. at
Versailles. and gave to Landru a
rendezvous at the Cafe de
IUnivers, in the Place du Louvre.
IT will wear a small, close-fitting
hat, with bright blue trimmings"
she wrote. And I win be sitting
outside the cafe at o'clock"
The invitation was alluring;
therefore, having apologized to
Elise. he went forth to meet
Madame Heon.
He passed along the pavement
at the hour appointed. but was
instantly filled with disgust. The
woman in the blue hat was aged
sixty!
"Ughw he calculated; but next
second he halted, smiling. and.
raising his hat. gave his name as
Raymond Petit, and seated himself
beside. her. For an hour he
chatted with her, behaving In a
charming and most -deferential
way. and having learned that she
possessed a considerable sum at
her bankers. he decided there and
then to court her and eventually
secure 1t.
Landru was always resourceful.
and usually had two strings to his
bow. II one failed. he fell gack on
the other. In his possession he
had the wherewithal to kill q
hundred women, but the disposal
Of the bodies was the great diff
Guilty.
Monsieur Petit, sweet.tongued,
smiling. and urbane, ingratiated
himself with the woman Heon
from their first meeting. and. when
they parted they arranged Q rem
devious for the following Thurs
day. Even while they were chat
ting, however. Landru looked into
her eyes with that peculiar quiz
sical gaze Of his that women found
so irresistible, and decided that
she should be his victim.
WROTE WORD HOME"
Ten minutes after she had left
him he took out his famous loose
leaf notebook and, turning to the
date, wrote the word "Havre'-
the town in which his latest con-
quest was born.
Madame Heon was doomed from
that moment-as viii later b seen.
That same night he called for
Madame Laporte, and they dined
out together. The prize Of 10000
pounds dansled daily before his
eyes, and he was plotting the
coup by which he could secure Il.
Though he had no desire to mar
~. yet he saw that without mar.
riage he would be unable to obtain
possession Of the money. There
fore, as they sat that evening
in the cory little brasserie In the
Boulevard dc Clichy, he took her
hand surreptitiously, and pouring
into her ear Q repitition Of his de-
votion, asked her to name the date
Of, the ceremony, adding:
I'VE will spend our honeymoon