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STAVISKY WIDOW ON: TRIAL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

LAW SAYS TWENTY FRENCHMEN

Mudame Ariette Stavisky, widow of the arch-criminal whose £10,000.– 000 swindle rocked all France,

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.

The trial is one of the biggest France has ever seen, with the courtroom jammed to capacity

-1935.

EGYPT'S' CROWN PRINCE

NOW... your complexion stays

...

MIRROR FRESH all evening long.

Crowa-Prince Farouk of Egypt, 15.

with hundreds of defendants, lawyers, witnesses, years old,, who is being educated at civil parties to the accusation, newspapermen

THE MAN WHO SAILS and photographers. Disappointed crowds mill-

TO NOWHERE

Α

FUGITIVE

FROM

FEAR

New York, Nov. 1.

ONE of the last 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, who used to be Capone's "out- of-town salesman, was threatened by a rival gangster .organisation.

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Ho fell 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 was being followed:

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

Nover Comes Ashora

“Gentleman," not quite · so de-i bonair as in his heyday, never

comes asbore from his yacht.

He puts into port, usually in Mexico, only when supplies aro needed:-is-three-dark brawny Mexican sailors, do all the buying.

Then he puts out to sea again and doesn't touch civilisation for· another three or four months,

Zybosko seldom talks to his crew, Burned black by constant. sunshine, he spends most of his daya reading novels, magazines, and every detective story he cau lay hands on.

He forbids his sailors to carry guna because he is afraid they might turn on him, but he always has a sub-machine gun at his side, even when the yacht is far out in the Pacific, lest, at some un- expected moment, the sudden death ho 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 sont for. He was Mr. Harry Berley, of Low Stone's dance band.

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

Mr. Borley said nothing. He reached into the pocket of his car, produced another ploce, of metal, and placed it in his headlamp.

It, too, fitted perfectly:

GYPSY CONGRESS

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

the

"OLD TOM" NOT FORGOTTEN

over

every Every birthday and

Old Tom, coachman to Christmas,

Buccleuchs and now #eventy, living on a pension at Bowhill, receives a card of goodi wishes from Lady Alice,

Even when he wa in Kenya, Old Tom received his birthday

curd.

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 Barnuud 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 finan-ne and before that at Orleans. cial testimony which is expected to take at least a month before a bowlldered jury.

the Officer School at Woolwich. The pleturs shows the Crown Prince on his arrival.

CENSUS BY DICTATOR

His machinations concerning GUNS TO SIGNAL

worthless Hungarian bonds · and his so-called "ublic worka" com- pany will be invoked only indirect

Chief prosecutor is Procureur General Fernand Reux, and he is assisted by Avocats Generaux L Gaudol and G. Caasagrau.

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

The twelve men who musti form their judgments from the ly cross-questioning of defendants and witnesses by the astute Assizes justices and the scores of opposing lawyers have been notified that their decisions must be on the answers to no less than 1,956 questions. Tons of documents, giving all the tangled ramifications of Sneha Stavisky's colossal swindles, which were disclosed after the death of the super-crook on January 8, 1034, 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 2. morely on "information."

Biggest Since Dreyfus Not since the Dreyfus case has France been so torn by a great. "affaire," and not

the since Panama Canal scandal have sol many publle mon been withor, directly involved or suspected of complicity in fraud.

1.

Gustave Tissier, comptroller of the -municipal pawnshop of Bayonne, accused of fraud, minking falso entries in the organization books, and issuing bonds on fake jewelry.

Joseph Garat, junyor of Bayonne, charged with fraud and complicity in swindle; accused of instructing Tissier to make fraudulent re conds; charged with receiving 400,000 franes from Stavisky. Henri Cohen, jewelry appraiser, charged with fraud and plicity, giving false estimates on jewels pawned at Bayonne.. Raoul Deshresses, Stavisky aide, charged with iesuing bonds not re- gistered in the Bayonne pawnshop nccounts.

com-

Some of the twenty defendants have waited in prison nearly two. years before the far-reaching in- -quiry-was-brought-to-an--end---franer-in-fake-jowola, -----

Others, after months of waiting. 6. secured their liberty on bail.

Vincent Sigoin, ex-police Inspector, charged with being a go-between and pledging more than 20,000,000

One of the latter is the only woman in the case-beautiful Arlette Stavisky, widow of the master-crook, who spent almost a 7. year in the Petite Roquette prison before she was released and allow- ed to

A resume

obscure " life as possible in the southwest corner of Paris with her two 8. children, who still have no notion of the scandal involving their

name.

On the dock with her, flanked by gendarmes, are the once respected 9. mayor of Bayonne, Joseph Garat;| former deputy Gaston Bonnaure; ex-editors Albert Dubarry, Pierre Darius and Carnille Aymara law-16. yers, businessmen, a former gene- ral. and Stavisky's lieutenants. The charges against them mange

Paul Guchle, insurance company executive, charged with fraud and complicity by accepting fraudulent bonds for his company

and

taking personal commission.

Volente, charged with newspaper Albert Dubarry, ex-editor of the receiving money. fraudulently ob tained and with intervening at the Ministry of Public Worka. in Stavisky's behalf.

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

Georges Gauller, lawyer, charge with receiving 70,000 francs frau- dulently obtained when he acted as lawyer for Stavisky. Gulboud Ribaud, another Stavisky lawyer, same chargo; also accused. of making certain pay-offs and es- tablishing contacts in algh places,

from fraud and forgery to receiv. 11. Pierre Darious, editor of the week-

ing stolen goods, and are based on

ARMS SHAREHOLDERS WILL REAP PROFITS

OF

DEATH

gone

Shareholders in iron, coal, steel and shipbuilding com- panies, who in some cases have without dividends for several years, and in others have had their capital written down, are again seeing the return of some or their money. There are more than 150,000. .do. and Ronald Vickers 0,008 shareholders in Vickers. A few Vincent Vickers and Hon.

P. S. Bouverio

years ago Vickers share were Vincent. Vickers and two written down from £1 to 6s. 8d. ethors each. They have touched a low Colonel S. P. Bouverie level of 58. 0%d., but have re- Alfred C. Cutler cently recovered to 199.

Earl of Dysart Captain John Fisher Vickers shares are held by peo-Sir John Gilmour ple of all descriptions, including Lord Joicey... many clergymen, doctora, soldiers C. G. Satterthwalte and working men...

J. B. Joel

Here is a list of prominent shareholders whose shares were. few years ago, worth very Httle and have now shown recovery n recovery

Douglas Vickers

hold 52,500

Lord Dulverton:

James G. Weir.... Philip G. Smith, **

23,320

88,000

13,333

25,175

40,000

40,000

3,000

20,000:

17,046

10,000

ly Bee at. Ongles, charged with

receiving 100,000 francs from

Stavisky for ending a campaign

FREEDOM

of

Constantinople, Nov. 1 MILLIONS Turke-ond 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 since the advent of Kemal's re- gime.

· Fines Or Prison

The streets are almost deserted except for policemen. Reinforced by 3,000 gendarmes, the police in- quire of any chance passor-by-- "Where 18

your permit 1.0 circulato?"

or

Ouly census offeinls, doctors, midwives and journalists are like- ly to be found in possession of these permits, and anyone else at large may expect a fine Im- prisonment.

All shops, restaurants, clubs and places of amusement are closed. of transport are All forms 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....sats and. gramophones. Young Turkey is evidently consoling. itself with jazz.

The day's work of every inhabi- tant of Turkey will be answering 10 questions on special forms. Some will find it a difficult day, for taken in 1927, the last census, showed that only nine per cent. of the Inhabitants could read and write.

14,000,000 Turkey then had people, of whom 62 per cent, were

women.

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

against the Bayonne racket. Britain

12. Paul

Paul Levy, editor of "Au Ecouter,"

and the late Itepart. Charged with

1 300,000 francs from

the

for advertising Ini

after which state-

Stavisky about ments published in Aux Ecoutes.

were

13. Arlette Simon Stavisky, charge:

receiving fraudulently

obtained

money; accused of full knowledge of Stavisky' swindles.

14. Henri Depardon, one of the swin dier's handymen, charged with ac cepting 152,000 francs in fraudu- lently obtainted money, and with

要

ENDING FRENCH

MONOPOLY

Belgrade, Nov. 10.

British.

JUGOSLAVIA is buying To-day a con- tract was signed between the Scottish firm of Yarrow and the Jugo-Slav Ministry of being ter, who handled more Defence paying tell

for boilers

and than 50,000,000 francs,

Stavisky's machinery to the value of to equip three £1,100,000, to new destroyers.

Staviaky accountant

and

16. Gilbert Romagni neceiving stolen

right hand man,

money; generally aiding the swin-

many years.

dler for

10. Henri Hayotte, theatre director, charged with being one of Stavis- ky's

principal lieutenants who always accompanied him in hie

ohargo: complicity receiving stolen money.

in

The material will be manufac tured in Yarrow's Clydesida yards. The hulls will be made in Jugo-Slavia by a French firm,

11. Emile Farault, jewelry appraiser but various fitments will be

at Orleans, charged with valuing fake emeralds for Hayotte,

18. Bardi de Fourtou, former general, charged with using false docu- monte in connection with the Orleans pawnshop, and with being on Stavisky's board of directors for other enterprisen.

19. Georges Hatot participated in pledging: scene of, Stavisky'n Zake nikomeralds."/

manufactured in Yarrow's small yard at Kraljovitza, on the Adriatic conat.

This order represents work for about 1,000 men for soveral Recently £200,000 worth of mill- tary airplane engines for Jugo- Slavia were ordered from Rolls- Royce to London, British firms are ousting French firms from a market which Hill now has becu almost exclusively French,

•·16,000.

months. 38,000 .... 22,485. The largest shareholding is that of Mr. Vincent Vickers, whose holding in 1982 was worth £22,000, To-day it is worth £88,600.

20. Camille Aymard, formor editor-in- Abschief 2 of the dafly LAberto, charged with receiving money fraudulently obtained. -- United Press

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