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STAVISKY WIDOW ON TRIAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20,

LAW SAYS TWENTY FRENCHMEN

Madame Arlette Stavialey, widow of the arch-criminal whose £10,000,- ang awindie rocked all France,

'THE MAN WHO SAILS

A

TO NOWHERE

FUGITIVE FROM

ONE of the last

FEAR

New York, Nov. 1. surviving partners of Al Capone, the fallen king of Chicago's rac- keteers, has been discovered aimlessly sailing backwards and forwards across the Gulf of. California.

Tony "Gentleman" Zybosko, Į who used to be Capone's "out- of-town salesman," was once threatened by a rival gangster | organisation.

Ilo felt safe while Capone was at liberty, but as soon as his chief went to gaol he became accursed with fear of sudden death.

Ho roamed all over the country, but always he thought he

being followed.

Was

In 1932, when he was in Mexico, he had a sudden idea' that he would buy a yacht and spend the rest of his days at sea, where he would be safe from gangstera' bullets.

Never Comes Ashore

"Gentleman," not quite so bonair as in his heyday, never comes ashore from his yacht.

He puts into port, usually in Mexico,only-when-supplies-are- needed. His three dark, brawny Moxican sailors do all the buying. Then he puts out to seagain and doesn't touch civilisation for another three or four months.

Zybosko seldom talks to his

Burned black by constant sunshine, he spends most of his daya reading novels, magazines, and every detective story he can lay hands on.

He forbids his sailors to carry guns because he is afraid they might turn on him, but he always has a sub-machine gun at his side, evon when the yacht Is far out in the Pacific, lest, at some un- expected moment, the sudden death he dreads should confront him,

THE CLUE

IT WAS PERFECT BUT-

This shows you how dangerous circumstan- tial evidence can be............

AN old man was

knocked down by a car on the Margate road.

The car did not stop. The -man died.

A piece of a headlamp was found.

Scotland-yard broadcast an ap. peal.

A message came from Sheffield. A car with a lamp broken in the way described was in a garage there.

A detective was sent up with the piece of metal found on the Margate road.

It fitted the gap perfectly. The owner of the car was sent for. He was Mr. Harry Berley, of Low Stone's dance band.

Mr. Borloy denied that he had been anywhere near Margate on that date. The detective pointed to the "ovidonco" of the broken lamp.

Mr. Barley said nothing. Ho reached into the pocket of his car, produced another piece of matal, and placed it in bis headlamp.

It, too, fitted perfectly.

GYPSY CONGRESS

Gyply beauties who participated in the great procession through the streets of Bulcharest congress that inaugrated the Gypsies Union.

"OLD TOM" NOT

FORGOTTEN

Every birthday and every Christmas, Old Tom, coachman to the Buccleucha astes now over Boventy, living on a pension at Bowhill, receives a card of pool. wiaken from Lady Alice,

Even when she was in Kenya, Old Tom roccived his birthday card.

CAN DO WRONG

BEWILDERED JURY IN STAVISKY TRIALS

REVELATIONS MAY SHAKE FRANCE TO ITS FOUNDATION.

· Paris, Nov. 10,

After nearly two years of investigation and bitter public controversy, marked by the riots of February 6, 1934, and the overthrow of two governments, twenty per sons indicted in the Stavisky affair are now on trial before the Assizes Court of the Department of the Seine.

EGYPT'S CROWN PRINCE

NOW... your complexion stays MIRROR FRESH all evening long...

The trial is one of the biggest France has ever seen, with the courtroom jammed to capacity with hundreds of defendants, lawyers, witnesses, civil parties to the accusation, newspapermen the Officer School at Waalwich. The

and photographers. Disappointed crowds mill-

bout the corridors of the sombre Palais de Justice vainly seeking entry, and were held in check by hundreds of republican guards.

When presiding Judge Charles Stavisky's swindles through the Barnaud brought down his gavel fraudulent Issuance of bonds on this morning ho opened a labyrin- the municipal pawnshop at Bayon- thian tangle of political and Anan-ne and before that at Orleans.

Crown Prince Farouk of Egypt, 15- years-old, who is bring educated at picture shows the Crown Prince on his arrival.

CENSUS BY DICTATOR

clal testimony which is expected His machinations concerning GUNS TO SIGNAL

to take at least a month before al bowildered jury.

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worthless Hungarian bonds and his so-called "public worka" com- The twelve men who mustpany will be invoked only Indirect form their judgments from the ly. cross-questioning of defendants

Chief prosecutor is Procureur and witnesses by the astute

General Fernand Reux, and he is Assizes justices and the scores assisted by Avocats Generaux. L. of opposing lawyers have been notified that their decisions Gaudel and G. Cassagnau. must be on the answers to no less than 1,956 questions.

Tona of documents, giving all the tangled ramifications of Sacha Stavisky's colossal swindles, which were disclosed after the death of the super-crook on January 8, 1934, must be waded through to reach the verdict. And even at that, only two of Stavisky's many frauds will be directly Invoked, the scores of others being brought in morely on "information.".

·Biggest Since Dreyfus

The full list of accused, given in the order of their alleged guilt, to the indictments according drawn up by the examining magis trate, is as follows:

1.

Not since the Dreyfus case 'has France hosen so torn by a great. "affaire," and not since the Panama Cana! scandal have sol many public men been ofther,

4. directly involved or suspected of complicity in fraud.

5.

Some of the twenty dofendants have waited in prison nearly two years before the far-reaching in- end. quiry was brought to an Others, after months of waiting, G. secured their liberty on ball.

One of the latter is the only woman in the case-beautiful Arlette Stavisky, widow of the master-crook, who spent almost a year in the Petite Roquette prisor before she was released and allow! ed 10 resume tis obscure a life as possible in the southwest corner of Parls with her two. children, who still have no notion of the scandal involving their

name.

On the dock with her, flanked by gendarmes, are the once respected. mayor of Bayonne, Joseph' Garat; former deputy Gaston Bornaure; ex-editors Albert Dubarry, Pierre Darius and Carnille Aymaru law-10, yers, businessmen, a former gene- ral, and Stavisky's lieutenants. The charges against them mango from fraud and forgery to recely-11. ing stolen goods, and are based on

ARMS SHAREHOLDERS WILL REAP PROFITS

OF

DEATH

Shareholders in iron, coal, steel and shipbuilding com-

panies, who in some cases have gone without dividends for several years, and in others have had their capital written down, are again seeing the return of some of their money. There are more than 150,000. do. and Ronald Vickers 8,998 shareholders in Vickers. A few Vincent Vickers and Hon.

P. S. Bouveria

28,820 years ago Vickers share were

Vincent Vickers and - EWICH written down from £1 to 69, 8d.

others

88,000 each. They have touched a low Colonel S. P. Bouveris level of bs. 04d., but have re- Alfred C. Culor Earl of Dysart cently recovered to 198.

Captain John Fisher Vickers shares are held by poo- Sir John Gilmour plo of all descriptions, including Lord Jolcoy many clergymen, doctors, soldiers C. G. Satterthwaite

J. B. Joel and working men.

Lord Dulverton Horo la a list of prominent James G. Wuir shareholders whose, shares wore a Philip G. Smith few yanra ngo, worth very little and have now shown recovery; [

Douglas Vickers

13,333

25,175

40,000

40,000

3,000

20,000

17,046

10,000

15,000

38,000

22,485

The largest shareholding is that Ord. Shares of Mr. Vincent Vickers, whose

held.

holding in 1932 was worth £22,000. To-day It is worth £88,000.

52,500

12.

13.

of

Gustave Tissier, comptroller of tho municipal pawnshop Bayonne, accused of fraud, making false entries in the organization books, and issuing bonds on fake jewelry.

Joseph Garat, inayor of Bayonne, charged with fraud and complicity in swindle; accused of instructing Tissier to make fraudulent re- Trceiving corda;

with charged 400,000 francs from Siaviaky. Henri Cohen, Jewelry appraiser, charged with fraud and com plicity, giving falso estimates on Juwels pawned at Bayonne.

Itanul Desbreases, Stavisky aide, charged with issuing bonds not re- gistered in the Bayonne pawnshop | accounts.

Vincent Sigoin, ex-police inspector, charged with being a go-between and pledging more than 20,000,000 france in Inite jewels,

Paul Guehin, insurance company executive, charged with fraud and complicity by accepting fraudulent bonds for his company and taking a personal commission. Albert Dubarry, ex-editor of the newspaper Volente, charged with receiving money fraudulently ob tained and with intervening at the Ministry of Public Works in Stavisky's behalf.

Garten Bonnaure, former deputy, charged with receiving money fraudulently obtained, amounting to 030,000 francs. He claims Slavisky paid this as lawyer's fees.

Georges Gaulier, lawyer, charged with receiving 70,000 franes frau- dulently obtained when he acted as lawyer for Stavisky. Guiboud Hibaud, another Stavisky lawyer, same charge; also accused of making certain pay-offs and es tablishing contacts in nigh places. Pierre Darious, editor of the week- ly Bee at Ongles, charged with receiving 100,000 franes from Staviaky for ending a campaign against the Bayonne racket. PARI

Levy, editor of "Au Ecoutes," and เทค Inta Repart. Charged with receiving 300,000 francs from

ments

for advertis

after

about Stavisky

published in Aux Ecoutes.

in the

state-

werk

Arlette Simon Staviaky, charge;

fraudulently

FREEDOM Constantinople, Nov. 1.

Turks and MILLIONS OF

foreign residents—are con- their homes to-day. fined to They must not leave until the boom of a gun in every locality announces that the national cen- sus is over.

This is the second census

gime. since the advent of Kemal's re-

Fines Or Prison

The streets are almost deserted except for policemen. Reinforced by 3,000 gendarmes, the police in- quire of any chance passer-by-- "Where ig. your permit to circulate?"

officials, doctors, Only census midwives and journalists are like- ly to be found in possession of these permits, and anyone else larga may expect a fine OF im- prisonment.

nt

All shops, restaurants, clubs and places of amusement are closed. All forms of transport are suspended.

Consantinople's streets and public places might have been abandoned owing to the ray- ages of a deadly plague. But from inside the houses issued the sounds-of-radio-sots- and gramophones. Young Turkey is evidently consoling itself with jazz.

The day's work of every inhabi- tant of Turkey will be answering

special 16 questions on

forms. Some will find it a dificult day, for the last census, taken in 1927, showed that only nine per cent. of the inhabitants could rend and write.

Turkey then had 14,000,000 | people, of whom 52 por cent, were

womeil.

To-day's results are expected to reveal an increase in the popula tion of about 2,000,000.

and Fifty thousand officials assistants are carrying out the great count.-Reuter.

Warship Order For Britain

ENDING FRENCH

MONOPOLY

Belgrade, Nov: 10.

money; accused of rull k obtained JUGO-SLAVIA is buying

of Staviaky's swindles. 14. Ilenri Depardon, one of the swin- dier's handymen, charged with ac- cepting 152,000 francs in fraudu- lently obtainted money, and with being Stavisky accountant and pying Celler he handled more

60,000,000 francs. 15. Gilbert Remagnino, Stavisky's right hand man; receiving stolen money; generally aiding the swin- dler for many years.

theatre

director, 16. Henri Hayotte,

charged with being one of Stavis- ky's principal Heutenants who always accompanied him in his travels; chargo: complicity in fraud, receiving stolen money, 17. Emile Farault, jewelry appraiser at Orleans, charged with valuing fake emeralds for Mayotte.

British. To-day a con- tract was signed between the Scottish firm of Yarrow and the Jugo-Slav Ministry of Defence

for boilers and machinery to the value of £1,100,000, to equip three new destroyers.

The material will be manufac- tured in Yarrow's Clydesida yards, The hulls will be made in Jugo-Slavin by a French firm, but various fitments will bo manufactured in Yarrow's small

former general, yard ab Kraljevitza, on the

18, Bardi de Fouro false docu- Adriatic const.

charged with

mente in connection with the Orleans pawnshop, and

and with being

011

for

fair

sky's board of directora

enterprises,

19. Georges Halot. participated In}

pledging name of Stavisky's fake emeralde.

20. Camilie Aymard, former editor-in-

chlet of

the dally Liberte, cliarged with "receiving monoy fraudulently obtained United Proes,

This order represents work for about 1,000 men for several months.

Recently £200,000 worth of mill- tary airplane enginos for Jugo- Slavia wore ordered from Rolls- Royce in London. British firms are ousting French firms from a market which til now has been almost exclusively French.

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