TRUNKS OF WOMEN’S CLOTHES AT THE “VILLA OF DEATH”
(Received 10 a.m.) PARIS, December 11
■ Joan Blanc, the spoiled child of wealthy parents, with a genius for getting into trouble, is alleged to have lent Eugene Wicdmann, who was arrested in a sensational manner after shooting at two policemen. £52 to open a beauty parlour in Pans, However. the money was utilised to lease the “villa of death" at St. Cloud, where systematic digging has begun in consequence of the discovery of four travelling trunks full of women’s garments bearing the names Joannine. Caroline. Sophie, Josephine and Jeannette. , , , Neighbours of Wiedmann had often seen him digging. He declared that he was preparing rose beds. . . . The police are exhuming the body of a girl from a cemetery at Lecellc, St. Cloud. A new conjecture is that the women s clothing at the villa is connected with the white slave traffic.
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Northern Advocate, 13 December 1937, Page 5
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