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Last autumn Latin-American papers reported the birth of sextuplets to a British Guiana woman. None lived. This report was not authenticated...
...favors for him. "On the death of Judge Prince I have no opinions," said he. "I was very sorry when I heard of it." The Stavisky investigation has already linked the swindler to one famed murder of many years ago, the mysterious death of Jean Galmot, Deputy from French Guiana, in 1928 (TIME, April 2). Indirectly last week it brought to final conclusion another financial scandal that 23 years ago shook France almost as deeply. Henri Rochette was another swindler to hold his own. Starting as a waiter in a French hotel with a $1,000 inheritance, he pyramided strange...
...Right, gave the investigating committee details of still another murder of the incredible Stavisky Saga. Kept from the French Press, the details were revealed by foreign correspondents. Before 1926, according to Deputy Henriot, Swindler Stavisky entered into relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean Galmot, from French Guiana. Galmot, a Wartime rumrunner, turned a handsome profit before developing political ambitions. With 800,000 francs, lent by Sacha Stavisky, Jean Galmot became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state...
...mills the faster stamps snowed into his albums. Lord Duveen managed to sell him his own stamp collection for $170,000. In 1922 Arthur Hind made world headlines by paying the highest price ever for a postage stamp- $32,500 for the only 1856 1? British Guiana stamp in existence...
With her first load of doomed human freight in two years, the famed French convict ship La Martinière slipped last week out of St. Martin-de-Ré, out of the Bay of Biscay, bound for the three little "Isles of Safety'' off French Guiana in South America, of which the most famed is Devil's Island. Her entire passenger list of 673 was below, locked in great iron cages. Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their...