Word: fouguereaux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny, acquitted of the 1943 Bahamas murder of his millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, turned up in Halifax as a third officer on a Canadian merchant ship, thought he might make the merchant marine his career. On his way to visit his wife, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 20, he told reporters he wanted "privacy": "Until all this publicity I got when I came into Halifax, the crew respected me. Now . . . they want my autograph." The Count, who doesn't like to be called Count, asked to be "just plain mister...
Strange Silence. Few in Nassau had doubted the outcome of the trial of Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny for the murder of his rich father...
...Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny, in his mahogany cage. Opposite were the jurors, alternately intent and bored...
...outdoorsy Bennington College. Her husband is in jail, held on suspicion of the murder of her father. Somebody killed Sir Harry Oakes at Westbourne outside Nassau during a tropical thunderstorm on the night of July 7. Nancy is sure it was not her husband, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny. "Freddy could not have done this terrible thing," she has explained over & over. "I know he did not do it. ... I am the only person who can help...
| 1 |