Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-28
BROKER RE-ENACTS
i MURDER OF GIRL
Morbid French Throng Sees
SpectacIe-Enjoy Picnic
LuncheonS at Scene.
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEAUX, France, August 28.-The
brutal Staying of a simple country
girl by her rich admirer from the city
= was re-enacted in a field near this
city Yesterday, while a crowd of 1900
persons. Parisians and peasants gaZed
on the spectacle morbidly. In Paris,
some % miles away and in all the big
cities and towns of France, millions
of others eagerly awaited details of
the spectacle in the afternoon papers.
CASTOR Guyot. wealthy Paris stock
broker. has confessed to strangling
Marie Louise Beulauget while motor
ing with her. on the evening of
August 49, He said he had placed the
body near a haystack in the field
which later was burned.
The prisoner was brought from his
prison cell to show the police how
II all happened.
ThrOngs Rush to Scene.
A steady stream of automobiles
came from Paris bearing spectators
and all the rounds around resounded
with the clopping of the sabots of the
Villagers hurrying to the spectacle.
Guyot's long. low, red automobile
was brought out by the police and the
Accused placed at the wheel. A big
policeman sat beside him playing the
role of the dead girl. Guyot then
was told to demonstrate how he had
Strangled his sweetheart with his
right hand and drove with his left
Jnperturbed. Guyot stepped on the
gas, pretended to argue with the po-
1iceman and gripping the wheel with
his left hand reached over with his
Oh oh,
gendarme by the throat
Guyot told the police that he thus
checked the girl to death with his re.
Aentless grasp. When she slumped
down in her seat dead. he said, he
turned off on a side road and stopped
by bayfield,. With much animation,
he showed how he dragged the body
of the girl from the car and placed 1t
on the new mown Stubble near
haystack which was found completely
burned when the body was discovered
by the police.
Haystack Reconstructed.
Then the police brought up bales of
nay with which they reconstructed
the stack so that Guyot might even
more wildly re-enact the scene. He
explained that he did not intend to
set fire to the haystack on the evening
of the crime. He said it was an
accident. Turning to a newspaper
man, he borrowed match to light
his pipe. and then tossed it aside
carelessly on the new stacked hay.
The haystack Immediately caught fire
and quickly burned to the ground.
A chemist ran up and took speci.
mems of the smoke in jars, Indicating
that the defense may contend the
girl died of asphyXiation. Guyot then
explained to the police that if he had
wanted to burn the body, he would
have surrounded it more carefully
with the hay
After the spectacle was all over,
the peasant and the city folk sat
down to lunches under the nearby
trees. a charabancs loaded with
American tourists on their way to
the Marnes battlefelds drew up. The
guide pointed out one sight not on
the usual program. And just then
the farmer who owned the haystack
rushed up to Guyot. demanded % 500
francs for the hay that was burned
on the night of the crime The mil
honaire broker, with an air of disdain,
turned from the indignant farmer to
the police officials and said:
Go ahead, pay him, I'm above such
details"