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THREE KILLED
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20,
IN RIVIERA
DOPE GANG FEUD
Cannes.
A saloon car draws up at the side of a main street in .Cannes the muzzle of a machine-gun appears at one
of its windows .. a revolver is thrust through another. There is a hail of bullets... a man walking past falls dead... the car is then driven off at 70 miles an hour, killing two other people in its path.
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This grim scene, enacted recently within a few yards of English visitors sitting on a cafe terrace, marks the climax to yet another dramatic. episode connected with the world-wide dope ring recently discovered by the Trench police, concerning which inquiries have been made recently about a woman living London.
The man who was murdered was handsome, 30-year-old Henri Mar- guin, once one of the lenders of .dope racketeering In Paris.
in
passed
A "sentence of death" by racketeers on Marguin, whom they believed was in the pay of the police.
that a rival, a Corsican named Jean Stefani was responsible, sent
one
orders to
of his men round to a bar owned by Stefani's brother, with shoot him at sight.
Two hours afterwards police found Slefant's brother lying be- hind his bar, dying.
another. the
Because it is an unwritten law of the "Milieu" the French under- world-that no member should give
witnesses evidence in court against there were no prosecution when Stefan! was tried
was acquliled.
for
for the murder of Feata's child. He
one
i
the Stefani through
head in a Montmartre street. For this he was sentenced to a small term of imprisonment, no witnesses com- ing forward.
A month ago he was released, but the friends of Stefani, determined to carry on the vendetla, plotted to murder him.
"Ile as followed wherever ho went. Desperately he tried to! evado is trackers. Once one of them fired at him in a bar near
but the Cannes.
bullet only wounded him slightly.
"As a last effort to save his life he started giving information to the closed in police. But his enemies
He went to the Thiais Cemetery, Paris, to see the grave of his wife. Fonta, hiding behind a gravestone, on him and shot him like a dog re- flred, wounding
of Stefant's cently. Twenty bullets were found friends. Foata was arrested und in him."
Mile. Langele sald: As Marguin drew abreast of the sentenced to seven years' hard la- A month ago he gave Informa- tion to the police which led to the car this morning, one of the men bour.
the
shouted: machine-gun who arrest of Bernard Bessy,
is with
your man. They detained in, Paris S
alleged "Firef- that's
an
accomplice of Louis Lyon, millian-hid their faces as they drove away Later the police tried to stop car near Nice by forming a bar- rage across the road..
aire restaurateur. Lyon is accused of being a member of the dope-dis- tributing organisation,
French inquiries spread to Lon- don last month, when questions were asked about having Mme. Sal-
tl, carrying on a lingerie agency in
The driver drove through barriers and dashed on.
the
A policeman jumped on to the
her Gloucester-place, W., fat, ex-running board and ordered him to tradited.
It was stated that sho korw Lyon, and might be able to give helpful information.
stop. The driver pulled out a re- volver and made him jump off.
Shots fired at the car struck the
of the
Marguin, a friend of Fonta, took his place as lender.
gang while Foata was in gnol, and vowed
to murder Stefani.
As Marguln made plans Stefoni met Marguin's dancee, dark-haired Simone Longele, a Montmartre ca- baret girl, and asked her to marry him.
I have
"Even 1, although really nothing to do with it, am afraid of what may hoppen. Gangsters once came into the cabaret where I was
drog mei appearing and tried to
with them until away. I fought help arrived..
"It is true I was the lover first of Marguin and then of Stefan, but I was never concerned. in dope traffic-
Marguin, hearing of this, shot' king."
petrol tank at the back, and set it WOMAN DOCTOR IS `SUED BY
Mme. Salti, a British subject, de-on fire. clared her Innocence of any con- nection with the dope ring, and sald The police eventually found the she was prepared to surrender her- self should extradition proceedings be started.
LOVE TRIANGLE The extraordinary circumstances leading to the murder of Marguin
include:
A vendetta between two rival dope gangs in Paris, lasting for four years and resulting in four murders and ive people being injured;
A love triangle dramh, In which Marguin ahot dead a dopo trafficker who had fallen in love with his fiancee; and
car abandoned. It is believed that: there was only one man left in it. when it reached the barriers, the others having escuped near Cannes.
Detectives have rushed here from
A WIFE-WINS CASE
Without leaving the box, a Marseilles, and high officers of the special jury gave judgment with in costs in favour of a woman in French Surele Headquarters Parls are travelling down to-night. an action at Leeds Assizes
brought by a young wife.
On Christmas night, 1934, a lead- er of the Paris gang, Charles Foata, was fired on in a bar.
Mrs. Isabella Mary Lloyd-Hughes, wife of an insurance offlelal of Spent thorne Avenue, West Park, Leeds, Foats was uninjured, but his five-claimed damages for alleged neglig year-old son
£1
counter-claimed against the husband for her fees.
For Mrs. Lloyd-Hughes it was sinted that In May 1933, when she was twenty-eight, the was expecting a baby and consulted Dr. Sinde. It
submitted that
complications only discovered by another wer doctor after some time.
was
The husband, in the box, agreed with a suggestion from Mr. Justice Goddard that but for the fact that Dr. Slade had threatened to sue him for her bill £2 78. he would preb- Dr. Slade denied negligence, and ably have never brought the action.
ence from Dr. Florence Slade, of hand Chartway, Relgale, Surrey.
was killed, People in the bar saw thrust round the door, but did not
who s୯:
belleving fired. Foota,
1938.
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