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...limited to two main developments: 1) After four doctors, in the presence of four members of the parliamentary committee, had performed a second autopsy on the battered body of Handsome Alex, it was announced once and for all that Swindler Stavisky had committed suicide when trapped by police in Chamonix. There was only one bullet wound in the body, in the right temple. From the way the bone was shattered the pistol must have been fired almost touching the head...
...20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched in his left hand but Stavisky appeared to have been shot both through the right side and over...
...boulevards. Citizens screamed "Down with the Stavisky Cabinet!"-though in fact M. Camille Chautemps was Premier and no one charged him personally with having anything to do with the $30,000,000 pawnshop bond swindle of "Handsome Alex" Stavisky who died with a bullet through his brain at Chamonix when his rascality and bribery of Deputies and officials were unmasked (TIME...
...hear him rant, the whole Cabinet were accomplices of "Handsome Alexandra" Stavisky, the $30,000,000 Bayonne pawnshop Ponzi (TIME, Jan. 15, 22). Accuser Henriot was sure that the Government "murdered" Stavisky whose body was found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried girl who is now Stavisky's widow was arrested in connection with a burglary," he shouted, "she did not go to jail! They said she was with child and they put her in a hospital under guard. Messieurs...
...great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote of entire confidence in the Government's conduct, put it through 376-10-205, after which the Chamber adjourned. Said Mme Stavisky, after attending the funeral of her husband who was buried with dispatch in Chamonix: "I don't know whether my husband shot himself or not but there is no doubt that he would still be alive if the police had not left him without medical attention for two hours. My husband was always floating financial schemes which we agreed not to discuss...