FRENCH TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 9

FRENCH TRIAL

MURDER OF TELEPHONE GIRL CUYOT RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, July 22. (Received July 23, at noon.)' Guyot has been sentenced to death, —A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable. [Gaston Guyot, a millionaire stockbroker, was charged with having strangled Mario Louise Beaulagcut, known as “ the telephone girl with the green eyes.” She was his mistress. Guyot strenuously maintained that her death was accidental, and, bursting into tears, exclaimed: “'Why should I have killed her? It is so easy to get rid of a mistress.’’ Accused averred that the girl was of a violent, jealous disposition, and explained that while they were motoring he fastened a fatal clutch on her 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 in the motor car, but at the side of a hayrick, among the charred remains of which the girl’s half-burned body was found.]