THE TWO LANDRUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12755, 26 September 1919, Page 6

THE TWO LANDRUS.

FATHER AFFIRMS HIS SON’S IGNORANCE. The examination of Landru, tlie French Bluebeard, turned recently on Mdme. Ouchet, who disappeared with her son at the end ot April, 1916. Landru, taking sheltei behind his plighted word, recuses to tell where they are. He is reproached with having rented, in the name of Ouchet, a warehouse in which ho stored the lady’s furniture. ' J The Judge: Did your son, who helped you in the removal, know the furniture was not yours?—Landru: My son knew nothing.

The Judge: Do yon mean to say he asked no questions? Landru (with the gesture of a Roman father): “ Sir, when I order, my children obey,” To underline the effect produced by this reply he added with withering sarcasm: “Uf course, M. !e Juge, I do not know how you bring up your children.” Before this retort the Judge failed to preserve his gravity.

The confrontation of Landru sen. and Landru, jun., produced no result. On leaving the Judge the accused marked to his advocate: “ Don’t you think, dear Maitre, that our friend Bonin cross-examines m« with excessive insistency ? No, I couldn’t S down to that sort of thing. All my gentlemanly instincts, all my esthetic refinement, would cry aloud m protest. " ouderful, is it not, that a judicial education can metamorphose a man into a beast?”