FRENCH MURDER TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 5

FRENCH MURDER TRIAL

MILLIONAIRE IN DOCK SORDID TRAGEDY' Press Association— By Telegraph-Copyright. PARIS. July 21.. ■ The 'Assizes Court at Melun (a, town ou the Seine) was besieged when a millionaire stockbroker, named Gaston Guyot. gave his own version of the death of Mario Louise Beaulageut. known as “ Malou, 'the telephone girl with the green eyes,” whom he is accused of having strangled. Tho case has been the talk of France, and fills pages in tho newspapers. _ Guyot strenuously maintaincii that Malou’s death was accidentrr md, bursting into tears, exclaimed ; V’hy should 1 have killed her? It is asy to get rid of a mistress.” : Accused averred that Malou was of a violent, jealous disposition, and explained that, while they were raotoru.g, he fastened a fatal clutch on ner throat with his right hand in a fit of uncontrollable exasperation, while steering with his left hand. The judge refused to accept this version, and said that the evidence showed that Guyot was determined to make an end of an embarrassing mistress, and deliberately strangled her, not Qn the motor car," but at the sido of a hayrick, among the charred remains of which Malou’s half-burned body was found. Guyot confessed that he set fire to the rick, and said that on seeing the poor girl dead he thought only of getting rid of the body. Questions revealed that Guyot was twice married, and that both wives had committed suicide. Doctors declared that life was not extinct when tho girl was thrown on the hayrick, as fumes were found in her lungs. The case was adjourned.