MURDERER SHOWS HOW

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 7

MURDERER SHOWS HOW

WHILE GREAT CROWD LOOKS ON “RECONSTRUCTION” OF A CRIME CURIOUS LEGAL METHODS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 29, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. A unique example of French legal methods was provided in the “reconstruction” of the crime in which a wealthy landowner named Guyot is accused. The event closely resembled a superb holiday. Whole scenes wero re-enacted. Guyot himself accompanied a horde of officials, who occupied 20 cars. There were dense crowds of sightseers en route. Often, at the scene of the tragedy, the proceedings were stopped to allow the examining magistrate to question Guyot, and thus the crowd was afforded a dress-circle view. Guyot was very calm, and related unemotionally all the events. Three miles from the spot the car was stop-

iiimmiiiiiiiiiiimimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiii ped, the handcuffs were removed from Guyot, and he took the wheel, in order to demonstrate on the inspector alongside him how ho steered with one hand and gripped the girl’s throat with the other. The crowd encroached on the roadway, and the magistrate decided to postpone that particular incident. HAYSTACK SET ON FIRE When tho party arrived at the field there were thousands eagerly waiting, and gendarmes and mounted police had very great difficulty in keeping order. Offioers built a haystack, which ■Guyot set on fire, in order that the gas escaping from it might he campled, to see if it were similar to that found in tho girl’s stomach. Afterwards Guyot drove the car, and demonstrated on the inspector how ho seized the girl by the throat after she had upbraided and struck him, and how he hold her throat until the girl died under pressure, together with the car’s jolting. ACCUSED ANNOYED Guyot afterwards became annoyed by too much questioning, and said he could not sea the point of it t where-