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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...
...rale in January, was the only person to make any factual advance in the great Stavisky case last week. Fortnight ago Inspector Bony discovered the missing stubs for the checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky...
...French politician last week was the word Stavisky. Sweeping together the best Cabinet he could, sly Premier Daladier planned to neutralize public opinion on the Stavisky scandal by asking the Chamber of Deputies to turn the matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost...
...plumes nodding and polished helmets glittering, mounted patrols of the Garde Republicaine moved slowly up & down the boulevards. Citizens screamed "Down with the Stavisky Cabinet!"-though in fact M. Camille Chautemps was Premier and no one charged him personally with having anything to do with the $30,000,000 pawnshop bond swindle of "Handsome Alex" Stavisky who died with a bullet through his brain at Chamonix when his rascality and bribery of Deputies and officials were unmasked (TIME...
...Premier Camille Chautemps had been lashed for four excruciating hours by Rightist Deputy Philippe Henriot who monopolized the Chamber tribune, made the most of the French right of free speech. To hear him rant, the whole Cabinet were accomplices of "Handsome Alexandra" Stavisky, the $30,000,000 Bayonne pawnshop Ponzi (TIME, Jan. 15, 22). Accuser Henriot was sure that the Government "murdered" Stavisky whose body was found by Secret Service agents weltering in his blood at the Alpine resort of Chamonix, apparently a suicide. But Accuser Henriot went further. "When the unmarried girl who is now Stavisky's widow...