PARIS MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 11

PARIS MURDER

A RUINOUS COURSE

REDUCED TO DESPERATION

CTnitefl Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Eeceived 4th December, 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, 3rd December. A story of a gay life culminating in murder is revealed by the dramatic arrost of Georges Gauchot, who recently inherited 200,000 francs from, his father a successful pastrycook. Ho gave- up his job as a bank clerk and took a dancer for his mistress. Finally ho came down to his last meal on 17th November. On that date a jeweller named Dannenhoffer was found murdered in his shop in the Kuo Mozart with sixteen shots in his skull, and seven ribs broken, apparently by kicks. The only clue- was a nowspaper folded over at the racing page. This enabled the detectives to discover that Gauchot had lost heavily on a raeo mentioned in tho nowspaper. They tracked the youth to a Montmartre cafe at 3 o'clock in the morning. On Gauchet's wrist was a stolen watch. He: confessed that he was starving and had tried to raid the jeweller's shop, but Danncnhoffcr had noticed him and a desperate fight had ensued. He stunned the shopkeeper, picked up a revolver lying in the back shop and emptied its contents into the man's head. Then he turned out tho lights and fled into the night.