Gruesome Details Of Paris “Murders”
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LONDON. March 15.
Axis radios continue to give gruesome details about the Paris murders. Vichy radio sates that Dr Pctoit watched the agonies of his victims in the murder chamber through a periscope built into the wall. Dr Petoil has fits of madness. He had a collection of newspaper cuttings and books dealing with mental cases, adds the radio. The amount of time the Germans are devoting to this murder story has increased the suspicions of Fighting French leaders in London that the Germans are hunting for Dr Petoit, not because he is a “Bluebeard,” but because he may be a French underground leader. Alleged Drug Trafficker The suggestion is advanced, says Berlin radio, that Dr Petoit, the alleged butcher of possibly 30 women, was a drug trafficker who suppressed awkward witnesses. Paris newspapers believe he possibly was anxious to remove anyone capable of incriminating' him. A Paris tailor told the police that his wife, a drug addict, was to have been a material v/itness ,in a charge of drug trafficking pending against Petoit in 1942 but, before the hearing she disappeared.
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Northern Advocate, 16 March 1944, Page 4
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