Word: swindler
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...months the bullet-riddled body of Alexandre Stavisky has mouldered in its grave. But the evil shadow of this arch-swindler continued to march on through the ranks of French politics, striking in the dark like a vampire at large. Paris newspapers, seldom more than 16 pages, are not given to over-writing the news. Of the 30 columns of news in last Sunday's Matin, 14 were definitely concerned with the Stavisky scandal...
...Stubs, One who was arrested last week was the dead swindler's wife, lovely dark-haired Mme Stavisky. A onetime dress model known as Arlette Simon, she married Swindler Stavisky shortly after the police raided a gay little dinner they both attended in the suburbs in 1926, bore him two handsome children, and acquired some of the finest clothes, the richest jewels in Paris...
...unfortunate for French politicians that just as these distractions were getting under way and the riots in Vienna were monopolizing the front pages of the Press, French constabulary in Beirut, Syria should have arrested Elie Sacazan. A second Stavisky is Swindler Sacazan, director of one of Stavisky's companies. Swindler Sacazan founded two banks and a bucket shop in Paris, all of which collapsed for a loss of approximately $22,500,000 to French investors. Twenty-three indictments have been brought against him in the past six years. He was sentenced to two years in jail in Algiers...
...What did a famed swindler want for his first meal in freedom...
Where these swift developments left Jean Chiappe no one pretended to know. Under great pressure, the dapper prefect of Paris police had been dismissed by Premier Daladier because one section of the public believed that he had wilfully failed to prosecute Swindler Stavisky, because another section believed that he collected a fat fortune in office by subtly blackmailing crooked politicians. But even without these groups smiling Prefect Chiappe still had enormous personal popularity throughout Paris. No sooner was his removal announced than roars for his restoration were heard. Rioting crowds interlarded "Vive Chiappe!" with cries of "Voleurs!" "Assassins!", saved their...