GAY LIFE ENDS QUICKLY

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 9

GAY LIFE ENDS QUICKLY

YOUTH’S WASTED LEGACY

JEWELLER’S SHOP RAIDED PROPRIETOR murdered dramatic arrest made ■ By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rpc.'s.s p.m.., Paris, Dec. o. A story 0f.,-gay. life .culminating in murder is revealed by the dramatic arrest of Georges: Gauchet, who recently inherited 200,0W francs from his father, who was a successful pastrycook. He gave up his job as a bank clerk, and took a dancer, as mistress, and he came down to his last meal on November 17, when a jeweller, Dannenhoffer, .was fdund murdered' in' a shop in the Rue Mozart,with 16'shots in his skull and rii>s broken, .apparently by kicks. The -only clue was; a newspaper folded over at the racing, page.. This enabled the detectives to discover, that Gauchet had lo^t .heavily on a race mentioned in'tne , newspaper. " > They tracked the' youth to a Montmartre cafe at three in the morning. . Op Gauchet’s .wrist was a stolen watch. He confessed that he had. been starving • and had tried to raid the jeweller’s shop, but Dannenhoffer had noticed him. A desperate fight ensued; in . which Gau-chet.-stunned the shopkeeper. He picked up a revolver lying in the back of the shdp and emptied thfe-coptents into the . man’s-’ head. He then, turned out the lightsarid fled into tlie night.