ANONYMOUS LETTERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 5

ANONYMOUS LETTERS

THE TULLE SENSATION. * ." .' ■ ; ' i AN EXPERT'S CONCLUSION.' . \ •■- _____ • i >-'. Preßs Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* ■ PARIS, January 24. .. (Received Jan. 25, at. 8.30 p.m.)' [\ After a: handwriting expert had 'tnt*.\ amined 200 of the anonymous letters x&\ ceived in the town of Tulle and had pelled eight suspected women to, writa *C passages dictated from the letters, he,jQon- » eluded that Madam Laval, sister of %fr police official, wrote most of the letters. Madam Laval has now disappeared.-ki, \ and N.Z. Cable. • ' , : « [A message published on January 11 stated'' that the town; of Tulle, in the of Correze, had been terrorised for three y years, by an anonymous , letter-writer.. Xyho iiad caused" the breaking-up of homes through accusations of infidelity and "em-£ bezzleraent. The letters Teveal a diabolical'-£ intimacy with the individuals' lives, ,and t v : also with the secrets of the prefecture for'i; the paat 20 or 30 yearfr. Some oi'thsjj victims, had gone mad and two were de.ad. ',' A committee of .the' townsmen collected J funds on a lavish scale to track down thfjS perpetrator, and Paris detectives were'Jm-;.| ported;;.; but all in vain. The prefecture- * ceived at the outset a letter of defiance, Ji which declared that finger-prints would failH,* as evidence, because the vritor wore-rubber i]' gloves. The mysterv revealed no motive' H t of greed or blackmail, or of anything buth-§ pure malice.] ;