Mysterious Crime
MURDER OF- SCULPTRESS DISCOVERY IN LOCKED HOUSE A neighbour passing the home in Tunis, North Africa, of Mile. Rachel Hautot, brilliant sculptress, early on a recent morning, noticed that two canaries were lying dead in their cage in the window. The neighbour told the police, who broke into the locked house and found tho sculptress lying dead in a back room with a silk stocking tied tightly round her neck. A medical examination showed that she had been stunned by a blow on the head with a blunt instrument and then strangled. The state of the body suggested that the murder had been committed at least three weeks previously. The house was in disorder, the contents of every draw and cupboard being strewn about the floor. As Mile Hautot lived simply, and had nothing of value in the house, the police are not certain that robbery was the object of the crime. The canaries had died through lack of food. In an outhouse some chickens were found dying from hunger. According to residents in Tunis, Mile. Hautot devoted the whole of her life to her art. She had executed some notable work for the French Government, including several statues for Government buildings. Surrounding the eoucn on which the body was found were
many of her statues of Arabs living in the native quarter of Tunis. It was as if the murderer had taken the trouble to move them into position so that their faces were turned toward their dead creator.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 13
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252Mysterious Crime Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 13
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