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Judge Lescouvé testified that he had drawn up two reports on Sacha Stavisky's strange success in dodging trial for fraud for eight years. In the second of these reports Judge Lescouvé directly charged Chief Prosecutor Georges Pressard of the Seine, lean-faced brother-in-law of onetime Premier Camille Chautemps, with negligence, a report that forced Pressard's removal from office...
...clutched in his left hand but Stavisky appeared to have been shot both through the right side and over the right temple-a difficult job for a suicide. Bleeding was profuse, suggesting that he suffered an internal hemorrhage. On the strength of these pictures the body of Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was dug up from its mountain grave and brought to Paris for an autopsy. ¶ In the matter of the murder of Judge Prince, Dijon police could only announce that they were "hot on the trail" of a mysterious automobile containing a woman and two men that had been seen...
...last week trying to connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort...
...keep a vampire in his grave is to bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...
...Ohio's Senator Simeon Davison Fess; and one Myrtle Esther Kirkpatrick, 33, of Washington, D. C.; in Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover"; and Yvonne Printemps, actress; in Paris. Seeking Divorce. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, niece of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot; from William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer. With her to Reno went her brother Gifford Pinchot II, seeking divorce from Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of a French...