EXTRAORDINARY SCENES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 August 1926, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES

AT ■R.ECO'NSTR.rCTTON OF' CffVfMF). FTIIE-'NOFI LEGAL METHODS. ax CABLE- -PEESS ASSOCIATION 00 PTEIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 28. A unique example of French legal methods w-a.s provided in the -reconstruction. ol the Guyot crime charge, in which Guyot is charged with the murder of a. girl whose body was found in a partly burned haystack. The event closelv resembled a -superb holiday. The whole of the scenes were re-enacted. Guyot himself accompanied a horde of officials Jn twenty cars. There were dense crowds of sight-seers en route. Often, at the scene of the tragedy, the proceedings were stopped to allow the examining magistrate to question Guyot, affording the crowd in the “dress circle” a view. Guyot was very calm -and related unemotionally the whole- of the events. Three miles from the spot the car was stopped a-nd Guyot was unhandcuffed, and took the wheel in order to demonstrate on the inspector alongside how he -steered with one hand and griped- the girl’s throat with the other. The crowd overwhelmed the roadway and the magistrate decided to postpone that particular incident. * When the party arrived at the field there were thousands of eargely awaiti;no- people, and the gendarmes and mounted police had the greatest difficulty in- keeping order. The officers built the haystack which Guyot fired, in order that the gas escaping from it might be sampled to -see if it was -similarto that found in the girl’s stomach. Thereafter Guyot drove the car and demonstrated o-n the inspector liow lie seized the girl -l>v the throat after she had upbraided and struck liim. liow lie held ber throat until the girl died under the pressure together with the car’s jolting. Guyot afterwards became annoyed by too inucb questioning and said be could not see the point of it, whereupon everybody returned to Meaux.