Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1920 — BONES IN “BLUEBEARD” HOME [ARTICLE]

BONES IN “BLUEBEARD” HOME

Paris Police Say. Wife and Children Aided in Alleged Slayer's ' J Crimes. .. . Paris. —Police officials investigating charges against Henri Landru, the alleged “bluebeard,” who is accused of slaying a number of women and destroying their bodies, claim to have found about fifteen pounds of human bones in a house where he lived. Among the bones was a skull in a good state of preservation. Some of the bones had been cut with a saw, the teeth of which left pecu’lar marks which wgre easily recognizable. It is said the gpw has been found and that marks made by its teeth coincide ■with those found on the bone fragments. Inquiry as to the operations of Landru’s wife, says the Eclair, shows that she was a “devoted accomplice’” of her husband and “knew 6t everythlnghe did.” It is also charged their children aided tn disposing of property secured by Lapdru In the course of hla •> leged crimes.