GRIM STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1937, Page 7

GRIM STORY.

"BLUEBEARD" TELLS. Confession to Sixth Known Murder. "SHOT THEM ALL SAME WAY." PARIS. December 16. "We shot her in the usual way—a bullet in the nape of the heck," the German '"Bluebeard,"' Eugene Weidmann, explained alter the body of another of his women victims had been disinterred. "Tliey do not cry out wlicn shot that way behind the ear,"' he added dispassionately. Searching by torchlight in a cavern in Fontainelileau Forest. French police found the body of Mrs. Janine Keller buried under three inches of sand, at the exact spot indicated on a map drawn by Weidmann. The cavern is known as the '"Bandits' Grotto." There the French Robin Hood, Louis Mandrin. sheltered in 1775 while army regiments sought him in vain. Every detail of Weidmann's confession to this, his sixth known murder, was found to be correct. "Showed Her a Grotto." Weidmann told how he inserted a newspaper advertisement for a governess. which was answered by Mrs. Keller, the divorced mother of two young children. After she had answered the advertisement he and an associate, Roger Million, who is now under arrest, arranged to meet her in a guarded fashion. '"We only wanted to rob her. We had no thought of murder at that time," Weidmann told the police. "But later we learned that she had money in a | post office telegraphic account. We ; then decided that it would be necessary to kill her. I "Upon meeting her we told Mrs. Keller [ that we would take her at once to the people who wanted a governess. We stopped the car near Barbizon, in FOll- - Forest, remarking that we would show her some interesting grottoes. Murder in Forest. "After we had walked for 20 minutes, I shot her in the usual way—a bullet in the nape of the neck behind the ear. Later, Colette Tricot, another associate of myself and Million, used the woman's identity papers to collect 1300 francs (approximately £9) from the post office." Huge crowds watched the search in pouring rain. A renewed search of the rooms, however, led to the discovery of packets of letters written by women in French, German and English. Denying that he killed Le Blond, a French taxi-driver, who was shot on October 2, Weidmann said: "Million and | 1 decided that he should be shot, but Million wanted to try his hand at my method. "I told him exactly where to place the muzzle of the rifle, and Million shot him. "I wrapped the body in a sheet, and removed it to a motor car."