THE LANDRUS HORROR.
PARIS, May 4. The experts' examination of Landras' frhabbily.furnished bungalow revealed •charred remains and a human skull in the kitchen gtrate. Bloodstains wera discovered on the stairs leading down to the cellar, and more charred bones under a heap of dead leaves in an outhouse.
lit is suspected that Landrus opened graves and burned sorag of his victims during the night-time. An investigation of the cemetery is proceeding as n result of the gravediggers' assertion to this effect, Ono of LnndruV supposed victims was Madame Guillin. Landrus proposal marriago in 1915, saying he, was Frenc'i Consul for Australia. Guillin disappeared soon afterward.*, and her friends supposed that she li?M "one 'to Australia. Landrus was soon in Paris in 1916 in company with other women.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7
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127THE LANDRUS HORROR. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7
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