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...glossed over even such startling admissions as one by Inspector Le Gall of the Sûrete (Secret Police) that "I would have had 99 chances out of a 100 to capture Stavisky alive if I had been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps who was Premier when the Stavisky scandal broke. M. Chautemps...
...This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared on some Stavisky check stubs (TIME, April 2). Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Raymond Hubert who jumped into the Seine and Henri Hurlaux, Assistant Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, who tried...
Once before this year the Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged...
Another chapter is about to be written in the lurid history of Joao Frederico Normano, big-time German counter feiting swindler and former Harvard professor, who yesterday, at his final hearing, brought a declaration into federal court claiming that under the American-German extradition treaty he should have been discharged from bondage last May instead of being deprived of his freedom up until...
...before the investigating commission last week he maintained stoutly that he never knew Stavisky or ever performed any favors for him. "On the death of Judge Prince I have no opinions," said he. "I was very sorry when I heard of it." The Stavisky investigation has already linked the swindler to one famed murder of many years ago, the mysterious death of Jean Galmot, Deputy from French Guiana, in 1928 (TIME, April 2). Indirectly last week it brought to final conclusion another financial scandal that 23 years ago shook France almost as deeply. Henri Rochette was another swindler to hold...