DRAMATIC ARREST
FORTUNE SQUANDERED GAY LIFE LEADS TO MURDER (Received Dec. 4, 3 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 3. A story of a, gay life culminating in murder..was revealed after the dramatic arrest of Georges Gauchet, who recently inherited 200.000 francs from his father, who was a successful pastrycook. He gave up his job as a. bank clerk, took a dancer ns his mistress, and came down to his last meal on November 17, when a jeweller. Dannenholfer, was found murdered in bis shop in the Rue, Mozart with 16 shots in his skull, and ribs broken, apparently by kicks. The. only clue was a newspaper folded oven on the racing page: This enabled detectives to discover that Gauchet Jiad lost heavily on the; races mentioned in the newspaper. They traced 1 the-yclu'th to a Montmartre calc at «> o'clock in the morning. Gu (laucliel’s wrist was a stolen watch.
Gauchet confessed that he had been starving and tried to raid Hie jeweller s shop, but Dannenholfer noticed him. A derpemio light ensued, in which Gauchet stunned the shopkeeper, lie picked up a revolver lying in the hack of the shop and cm plied the contents into the man s head. He then turned out the lights and lied into the night-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17433, 4 December 1930, Page 13
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