MURDER OF A JEWELLER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 15

MURDER OF A JEWELLER.

A FRENCH YOUTH CONFESSES. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 4tli, 5.5 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, who was a successful pastrycook. lie gave up his job as bank clerk, took a dancer as mistress p.- 1 came down to his last meal on JS .ember 17th. When a jeweller named Dennenhoffer was found murdered in his shop in Rue Mozart, with sixteen shots in the skull and with ribs broken, apparently by kicks, the only clue was a newspaper folded over at the racing page. This enabled the detectives to discover that Gauchet had lost heavily on the race mentioned in the newspaper. They tracked the youth to a Mont Martre cafe at three o'clock in the morning. On Gauchet's wrist was a stolen watch. He confessed that he Had been starving and had tried to raid the jeweller's shop but Dannenhoffer noticed him. A desperate fight ensued, in which Gauchet stunned the shopkeeper. ..He picked up a Revolver which was lying in the back of the shop and emptied the contents into the man's head. He then turned out the lights and fled into the night.