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Judge Lescouvé's report was based in turn on a report of a police inspector named Gripois who pointed out Swindler Stavisky's criminal record in 1930 and handed his report to the murdered Judge Prince. The latter quite properly turned it over to Prosecutor Pressard. Last January Prosecutor Pressard denied that he had ever seen the Gripois report. Continued Judge Lescouv...
...committee room progress on l'Affaire Stavisky was limited to two main developments: 1) After four doctors, in the presence of four members of the parliamentary committee, had performed a second autopsy on the battered body of Handsome Alex, it was announced once and for all that Swindler Stavisky had committed suicide when trapped by police in Chamonix. There was only one bullet wound in the body, in the right temple. From the way the bone was shattered the pistol must have been fired almost touching the head...
...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 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...
...time 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...
Inspector Bony, suspended from the Sûreté Gènérale 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...