GRIM SCARF MURDERS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11492, 20 November 1931, Page 2

GRIM SCARF MURDERS

INSANE I'ATHEK THEORY PARIS, Nov. 12; Tbo most sensational of recent French crimes are the murders of tho nine-year-old Roger Sivay, son of n furrier, who has been found strangled by ■ a scarf, and -of his mother, discovered in a flat with her head battered with a pestlo and a scarf bound round her neck also. The father and elder son, Jean, have disappeared. A macabre incident in connection with the affair is that tho father was seen seated in n! cafo drinking beer with Jean when Roger’s body passed on its way to tho mortuary. The polico first discovered Roger on a Seine towpath, near Paris. Most: of tho evidences of identity liad been destroyed. When tho naroo had been ascertained, it was found that Sivay’s flat was locked. The police broke in and saw the mother’s body clothed in a torn nightdress. The bedclothes were drenched with blood, ami there was evidence of a fierce struggle having taken ;place. Tho husband's coat : was found with the sleeves plotted With blood. It; has now. been established that Sivay left the flat bn November 3 with Jean and went to Verneuil, where Pogcr was staying with liis grandmother. The father said he was going to Chartres on business, and that this was a chance of giving. the boys an outing. The police, in view' of the disappearance of Sivay and Jean, are working on th.e theory that there have been tw-o, and probably three murders. They believe that Sivay suddenly became insane, especially in view of a ■friend’s statements that he was a model husband, and had, a flourishing business, although latterly he had been overworking. , -