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...Eyck's Annunciation was completed about 1434. From a church in Dijon, to Paris, to Holland, to the Hermitage, the canvas finally landed in Mr. Mellon's collection...
Case of Judge Prince. Within the fortnight Papa Cheron had played in bad luck. Weeks of shouting by the opposition Press finally forced the release, against his orders, of the long-suppressed official report on the murder of Judge Albert Prince at Dijon. It filled 180 pages and proved nothing at all beyond the ability of the Gallic mind to confuse an issue...
Last February, the clay before he was to have testified at the Stavisky inquiry, Albert Prince, a member of France's highest court, was found on a railroad track in the wild and rocky country outside Dijon. He had been called from Paris by a false message that his mother was dangerously ill. When found, he had been doped, one ankle tied to the rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money...
...done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...
...Stung by charges of connivance and corruption, the Sûreté suddenly sprang to life and arrested three French gangsters charged with the murder of Judge Albert Prince, Stavisky witness, on a Dijon railroad track...