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...these gentlemen were used to unraveling a shrewd, intelligent, well-constructed plot. Last week they suddenly found themselves flung into the middle of a nightmare of murders, suicides, plots and recriminations that any of them would blush to submit to the editor of a detective story magazine. Assembled at Dijon, they went down to the railroad track where the crushed body of Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly becoming the greatest political crime of the 20th Century made the following advances...
...near solution was the murder of Albert Prince, the handsome hollow-eyed Appellate Judge who was lured to Dijon fortnight ago and slain on a railroad track just before he was to testify concerning several of Stavisky's protectors (TIME, March 5). Whether Judge Prince was still alive when tied to the track was unknown, although a doctor discovered poison in his body tissues which seemed to indicate that he was already dead. By then a new theory had arisen, wild as anything in the entire case: Judge Prince was murdered by a gang of professional criminals that...
...before Conseiller (Appellate Judge) Albert Prince was due to testify as to the wire-pulling behind the Stavisky scandal before a Parliamentary committee, Mme Prince received a mysterious telephone call: the judge's mother was seriously ill in Dijon and had been taken to the hospital. Conseiller Prince packed his most important papers in a briefcase and took the 12:25 p. m. train to Dijon. At the railway station he turned in his ticket and a short time later registered at a nearby hotel. He had just learned that his mother was resting comfortably and in no danger...
Around 8 that evening a freight train pulled into Dijon. The engineer stepped down to inspect his oil cups. There was blood on the driving wheels. Railway police started down the track. A few minutes later they found the body of Judge Prince. Several trains must have, passed over him. One ankle was tied to the track. There was a knife wound in his throat. His money was still in his pockets. But all incriminating papers had been removed from his briefcase. Next morning Mme Prince received a telegram signed with the judge's name saying that his mother...
...Surete Generale, the French secret police, M. Belin trailed, captured and brought to the guillotine Bluebeard Landru. All he could discover last week was that Judge Prince was quite dead before he was tied to the track, and that the original telephone message had come not from Dijon but from Paris. Raymond Prince, son of the murdered judge, cried bravely: "In spite of the terrible responsibility it involves, which may cost me my life, I am determined to tell all I know. I feel certain that this was a political crime. My proof is that my father...