MYSTERIOUS DEATHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9

MYSTERIOUS DEATHS.

FRENCH INVESTIGATIONS. TWO EXHUMATIONS ORDERED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. •(Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Aug. 25, Therd has been a dramatic . sequel to tho arrest of Gaston Guyot, the wealthy landowner, in connection with the death oft the girl Marie Beaulaguet. The bodies of Guyot's two wives are Jto be exhumed. • It has been discovered that in both cases Guyot rushed ' out of- his bedroom at night,' shouting: "Gall a doctor. My • wife! shot herself while I was asleep." Each wife was found with a wound in ✓her head and a revolver by her side.

The Paris police arrested Guyot on ,'linirsday last in connection with the death by strangling of Marie Louise Beaulaguet, whose body had been found in a burning haystack near the capital. Guyot, who was known to have been motoring with the girl, had twice been married, and both wives had died under mysterious circumstances while they were motoring with him. . s;viThe mother of the dead girl, in company with the police, visited the spot near Meaux where her daughter was murdered. The remains of the . burnt haystack were still there. The mother burst into tears and . took away ; half-consumed wisps of hay. When the police turned over the ashes, they found a matchbox, which they were convinced had been placed there, since the murder in order to suggest that the fire was accidental.