HIS NIGHTMARE
WAR PRISONER'S GRIME CHILDREN MURDERED LONDON, March 1. “ Ho never told me the story until he went to U i place whore he was taken prisoner. Then 1 heard it twenty times,” was the English widow’s eviden. - on Emile Chatonet, who murdered his three children at Highgate and committed suicide._ It was a terrible story, she said, cf the first five days cf his two years as a prisoner of war in Germany. 1 heard it first when he had a nightmare. Ho lost every penny, including my money, and morally pledged himself to repay everything. Ho devoted Ins earnings to doing so, obsessed by the worry of my keeping the home going, and said 1•’ was useless. If our 1 hildre suffered similarly, they were better unborn.” A solicitor gave evidence that Chatenet’s former partners were pressing him for money by February 29. The verdict was ofic of murder while insane.
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Evening Star, Issue 21053, 16 March 1932, Page 4
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154HIS NIGHTMARE Evening Star, Issue 21053, 16 March 1932, Page 4
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