Word: philipponet
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...dozen policemen rushed from offices in the Prefecture to collar Murderer Philipponet and clap him into a cell he screamed: "Monsieur Bayle committed an act of bad faith! My document was genuine! What I have done was worth the death of a father of five children...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung about the draughty corridor until Criminologist Bayle stepped briskly through the door, started upstairs to his beloved laboratory. Stepping forward, Salesman Philipponet fired three times. The great Gaston Bayle swayed, then rolled to the stairs, sprawled, gasped up a mouthful of blood, was dead...
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