MURDER PROVED

Northern Advocate, 1 December 1921, Page 5

MURDER PROVED

* LANDRU VERDICT.

ACCUSED TO DIE. 4

FINAL STAGE OF TRIAL.

(Received 1.20 p.m.)

PARIS, Nov. 30, Landru was condemned to death.

ACCUSED IN MORTAL DREAD,

GUILLOTINING DEMANDED,

(Received 9 a.m.)

PARIS, Nov. 29

There was a record attendance, i ll * eluding a prominent painter, who made a series of sketches of Landru.

The Advocate-General in concluding his speech said that Landru had smashed the victims' skulls with an lyxe and cut up the remains with surgical saws, of which Landru's notebook showed that he had purchased six dozen. The prisoner turned a ghastly colour when the Advocate-General demanded a death sentence by the guillotine. M. Giafferi, Landru's counsel, who is an .accomplished orator and employs fine gestures to emphasise his argument, appealed to the jury to remember that Landru's silence was protected by law; but the most impressive point was a quotation from the Napoleonic code that an absent person is never dead and that death must not bp assumed for thirty years.

The speech in defence will be concluded to-morrow, when the verdict is expected.—A. and N.Z.