BRUTAL FRENCH CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 7

BRUTAL FRENCH CRIME

SON KILLS PARENTS. The Tours police have arrested Gastin Duveau, twenty-two, charged with mur-. dering and robbing his father and mother at their home near Le Mans, in tho Sarthe Department. Ho is said to have made a full confession. Tho parents, well-to-do, np to April 12, the day of the murder, had paid all debts contracted by their son. Ho, however, is said to have made the acquaintance of a woman who demanded large sums of money. He asked his father for this money, but was refused. M. Foucault, who lives clbso by, says that at 4 o’clock in the morning he was awakened' by the son, who said his parents had gone away to Paris, and that his father wished M. Foucault to attend to his vineyard and cattle. Iho son added that ho was going to join his parents at Paris.

Owing to the disagreeable odor coming from the Duveau house tfie police forced the doors some days latex - , and found the old couple dead. The father had' been shot and the mother killed by blows of tongs, which had been broken by tho violence used. A considerable sum of money was missing. When arrested, tho son, who was in tho company of a woman, had.a largo,sujn on him.' , y '