NO PEACE FOR LANDRU.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

NO PEACE FOR LANDRU.

EVEN AFTER PASSING TO GRAVE.

Landru, the French Bluebeard, guillotined for killing and burning his ten "wives," hasn't even a peaceful resting place in his grave.

The little plot, four feet by eight, leased by his family for five years in the Gonards cemetery near Versailles, has been sold, and Landru's bones will be reburied in a corner where only criminals are placed. The little wooden cross with only the Christim names "Henri-Deside, 5" has been taken down, and the shrubbery planted by friends has been removed.

Landru's memory, which will live long in police history, is being perpetuated also in a little museum, a chamber of' horrors, established in the house of Gambais, twenty-five miles from Paris, where, Landru lived and kept warm with the heat from the stove in which bones were found.

Landrn was executed at dawn February 25, 1922. By special permission his family was enabled to have him buried in normal fashion, but when the five-year rental period expired it was not renewed. In such cases the right \* the dead to his grave expirr*.