MADNESS FEIGNED.
TO ESCAPE GUILLOTINE. "DETECTION AFTER 12 MONTHS. A. and N.Z. PARIS, Jan. 5. Vlachoff, a chauffeur, who murdered Mrs. Draycott in December, 1921, ana has since feigned madness, has bee.i under observation for a year. He was informed on Friday that the doctors had come to the conclusion that he was malingering. He will be guillotined within ft fortnight. Mrs. Draycott, the wife of a wealthy English resident in Paris, was brutally murdered in her fiat by Vlachoff, whose advances she had spurned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5
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85MADNESS FEIGNED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5
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