GHASTLY DISCLOSURES

Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 16

GHASTLY DISCLOSURES

A six-year-old crime in a lonely villa at Aix-en-Provence is being reinvestigated by the police as a result oi gliastly disclosures made by a man ami two sisters who were recently arrestee on a charge of fraud Six years ago an unfrocked priest, named Louis L’hambon, who had been m a divorce scandal, and a woman known only by her Christian name, ‘‘lllanche,” disappeared. Not a single trace of them could be discovered, and though suspicion fell on a man named Sarrct, nothing against him could bo proved. Recently Sarret aud two sisters were arrested on a charge of swindling, and statements which they were alleged to have made have been pieced together to explain the mystery. According to these the priest Chambon visited the Hermitage with one of tho two sisters. While ho was trying to open a shuttered window, Sarrct, who was hiding behind a screen, shot Chambon in the back, killing him. Sarrct then went to Marseilles. Ho brought back to the villa another woman, a friend of the priest, and after talking to her in the dining room lio shot her dead also. Sarret is said to have explained to tho sisters that ho was forced to kill the woman to prevent her reporting tho priest’s disappearance to the police. Tho sisters declare that the inurderer ordered them to put tho bodies in a bath of strong sulphuric acid. In three days, they assert, tho bodies wore dissolved, and all that remained was a blackish fluid. This was emptied on the soil in the garden.