FRENCH MYSTERY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 16 September 1929, Page 7

FRENCH MYSTERY.

BODY IN UNCLAIMED TRUNK

DISCOVERY AT LILLE STATION

(Australian Press Association.) PARIS, Sept. 15.

Suspicions as to the contents of an unclaimed trunk were aroused at the railway station at Lille, and an investigation led to the discovery of a man’s hound body. In one of the pockets was a letter signed “Rigaudin.” The Paris police found that Rigaudin’s mother was murdered four months ago. There is no clue in either case. It is known that Rigaudin was a leading Anarchist, engaged in espionage, and it is believed that he incurred the enmity of his gang. There had been several mysterious foreign callers it his home, including a woman, since his disappearance. The police found his bedroom ransacked. It transpires that his murdered mother was housekeeper to one Almerevda, the leader of the notorious wartime Bonnet Rbuge plot. She was suspected of liis betrayal and it is next known oven now whether Almereyda committed suicide or was murdered after his arrest. Rigaudin declared that he would devote his life to running down his mother’s murderer.