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...Marguerite Henriot, 19-year-old cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot, was found murdered in her garden at Lorient Police suspect a passing tramp...
This could mean only one thing STAVISKY. It was Deputy Henriot's accusations in the Chamber following the collapse of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop that started the Stavisky scandal. This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared...
Detectives soon heard a story that Michel Henriot, 23, married less than two years, had insured his wife's life for 800,000 francs. A few hours of questioning and Michel Henriot confessed. The boy's father, cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot is prosecutor for the department of Lorient. Pale and shaken by the news he resigned, announcing that he would undertake the defense...
...woman and two men that had been seen by several witnesses near the scene of the crime. But in Paris two men swore that they recognized Gilbert Romanigno, former secretary to Stavisky, as the man who had watched the Prince apartment for several days before his death. ¶ Philippe Henriot. fiery young Deputy of the 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...
Meanwhile Minister de Monzie and Accuser Henriot had not yet fought their duel, but the Government grew so nervous as debate on the Stavisky scandal was resumed that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police...