Word: swindler
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...Jamin of Chamonix complained : "I was the first to be called to attend Stavisky. I protest that I was not also called to testify at the inquest which pronounced him a suicide." In Bayonne the local Mayor, M. Joseph Garat, a Deputy of France arrested as an accomplice of Swindler Stavisky, sat in his cell shivering and disconsolate. One of his last acts as Mayor was to refuse the piteous pleas of shivering prisoners that he install central heating in the jail...
...Bayonne with the assertion that Manager Tissier and his handful of jewels were not the point. They claimed, after a hasty rummage through the Crédit Municipal's books, that French insurance companies had been mulcted of perhaps 500,000,000 francs ($30,000,000) by a swindler of Kreuger rank operating behind the pious, philanthropic front of the Crédit Municipal. This swindler was not Manager Tissier. He was not the chairman of the Bayonne Crédit Municipal, hitherto respected M. Joseph Garat, Mayor of Bayonne and a Deputy of France, who was soon also...
...ships at sea, to police at every port, the French Secret Service flashed descriptions of the Founder-Swindler, asking his arrest. The Dutch steamer Alpherat promptly radioed that a passenger who seemed to fit the description had jumped overboard with a life buoy the evening before, eight miles from the Island of Teneriffe. Shrugged seasoned French operatives, "It has always been like that. Alexandre always escapes...
...himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from exposing him, that he had not fled last week but was still in Paris "under high protection." With her children Mme Stavisky was still in Paris, living in a new apartment...
...Chicago police arrested Bror H. Petersen, petty swindler, who had married four wives in one month by giving them $500 promissory notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl...