FORTUNE WASTED.
AFFLUENCE THEN MURDER. < Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 3. A story of gay life culminating in murder was revealed by the dramatic arrest of Georges Gauchet, who recently inherited 200,000 francs from his father, a successful pastrycook. He gave up his job as a bank clerk and took a dancer _ as hi 3 mistress and finally got down to' his last franc on November IT. That day a jeweller, Dannenlioffer, was found murdered in his shop in the Rue Mozart with 16 shots in his skull and seven of his ribs broken, apparently by kicks. The only clue was a newspaper folded, over at the racing page. This enabled, detectives to discover tk.it Gauchet had lost heavily in a race mentioned ill the newspaper and tracked the youth to a Mont mart re cafe at 3 a.m. On Gauchet" s wrist was a. stolen watch. He confessed that he was starving and had tried to raid the jeweller's shop, but Dannerthoffer had noticed him and a desperate light ensued. He stunned the shopkeeper, picked up a revolver lying in the back shop and emptied its contents in the man's head. Then turned out the lights and fled into the night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 7
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