FIVE MURDERS ADMITTED
PARIS INTERPRETER
ARRESTED
BODIES RECOVERED BY
POLICE
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) PARIS, December 9.
The body of Jean de Koven was unearthed by the police under the front steps of a villa at Saint Cloud where Eugene Weidmann, aged 29, confessed that he had enticed and murdered her It was alleged that he had admitted three other murders, that of Roger Lebond, a theatrical agent and taxi driver, and Otto Frommer, a former friend of Weidmann, who said he had buried Frommer in a cellar. The police later dug up Frommer’s body. . Weidmann’s arrest was sensational. He was an interpreter at the Paris Exhibition and was traced by means of visiting cards found on the body of Raymond le Sobre, a house agent and one of his victims, who was found dead in another villa at Saint Cloud. Two policemen last night entered Weidmann’s villa. Weidmann used a revolver on both but was overpowered. Weidmann broke down after 13 hours’ questioning and he confessed to five murders which he attributed to a need for money, although the police say he obtained less than £215 as 1 the result of his crime. Koven’s autopsy revealed that she was murdered shortly after her arrival and buried, while days later her aunt received ransom demands.
A previous message read:—The police throughout France are seeking Jean de Koven, an American danseuse, who disappeared froih a Paris hotel at which she was staying with her aunt, who has since received ransom demands for £lOO. The girl’s cheques, with forged endorsements, were cashed at various Paris banks.
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Southland Times, Issue 23380, 11 December 1937, Page 7
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