GIRL’S STRANGE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 9

GIRL’S STRANGE

1 Body Discovered in Canoe NO TRACE OF COMPANION Paris, August 28. The mystery deepens concerning the fate of a young French dress designer, Henrietta Caravaniez, Whose body, clad only in an under-vest, was found in a rubber canvas canoe, off the Italian coast near Spezla. The assumption is that she was murdered.

She left Monaco in a fragile craft in the company of Alain Sabouraud, son of a Paris surgeon. Their announced intention was to sail along the French and Italian coasts and then to make for Corsica. Mademoiselle was then - dressed in beach pyjamas with a leather jacket. There is no news of Sabouraud. It was at first thought that the canoe drifted until its provisions were exhausted, when the man fell overboard in despair and the girl committed suicide. The next theory was that the man shot the girl to save her from suffering and then himself committed suicide. The latest statement from Spezla, however, says that the girl’s body was tied with ropes in the stern of the canoe, and, moreover, five days’ provisions remained. Thus the police are inclined to think that the girl was murdered at some point along the coast and placed in the canoe and set adrift. Alternatively it is suggested that both were attacked by brigands while at sea.