The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1934, Page 2

Inquest Is Enlightening ** & ** * * & BUT NOT SOLUTION * **# & To Murder of Counsellor BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT, join him some other time. The man CHAPTER THIRTEEN {was so insistent that Prince was es 2 i ‘There was another inquest in Paris and, although it does not solve the crime, it certainly does establish pos- sible motives and gives us a pretty) bright picture of the possibilties— some of which develop surprisingly! before this story ts over. First of all President-Judge Les- couve, in charge of the Stavisky in- vestigation, said that Counsellor Prince had come to him some time before with the story that he “wanted te relieve his conscience” in regard to the famous scandal. He had a re- port to make which was more than important; it was dramatic. On his! first visit to Lescouve, Prince had told his story verbally. Lescouve had re- quired him to put it in writing. This the counsellor had done for the most part, and the president-judge was in possession of Prince's ctficial report. ‘While Lescouve was not yet prepared to reveal the contents of this, it seems it contained material which would involve some of the higher judges of the criminal court inextricably in the} matter of Stavisky’s perpetual escape from the meshes of the law. But Prince’s own personal notes— the unofficial ones—had not yet been turned over. He was to have finished and given these to Lescouve on Thurs- day after returning from Dijon. His son Raymond assured the investigat- ors that they had been in his brief- case with him in Dijon. They were not found. They had been stolen. Next the investigation learned that, several days or weeks before his death, Counsellor Prince had been accosted by @ well-dressed man as he left his home one morning at 6 rue de Baby- lone. This man had greeted him with effusion, had claimed mutual ac- quaintances and had urged the coun- sellor to have lunch with him. Prince decided that this was a bit too hearty. He politely put the man eff for lunch, promising vaguely to —_—_—_—_ | Weather Report | oY FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Un- settled cooler tonight; and slightly = ‘Wednesday partly ig cloudy and cooler. For North Da- § kota: AUG *Wedmeaday partly cloudy, pre-, Beded. by showers in extreme portion. For South Da- kota: Partly clou- dy tonight and Wednesday, possi- bly showers in ex- treme east por- COOLER tion; cooler Wednesday. For Montana: Generally fair to- night and Wednesday; cooler tonight east of Divide and in southeast por- tion Wednesday. For Minnesota: Partly cloudy, cooler near Lake Superior Tuesday night; Wednesday unsettled, some- what warmer in northeast, possibly a and cooler in northwest por- ion. GENERAL CONDITIONS A low pressure arca is centered over Sassatchewan (Qu Appelle 29.84) while high pressure areas are centered over Ontario and over the north Pa- cific coast (Seattle 30.24). Light showers have occurred in the middle Mississippi Valley, northern Great Plains and along the northeastern Rocky Mountain slope. Temperatures are high from the Great Lakes region to the Plains States, but cooler weath- er prevails over the far west. ismarck station barometer, inches: 28.24. Reduced to sea level, 29.96. Missouri river stage at 7 a. m. 0.1 ft. 24 hour change, 0.1 ft. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck station: ‘Total this month to date ...... Normal, this month to date Total, Jan. 1st to date ..... . Normal, January Ist to date .... 11.58 Accumulated deficiency to date 6.07 NORTH DAKOTA Sones est est Pct.| ing upon the people of France? What 75 .00| was its name? Who was its head? 60 .08/ Was there, then, some master-mind? 67 901 ‘The press of those days took up the ‘00 | idea. a a Articles read like plots out of Edgar 65 .00| Wallace. 6 The public smiled, but it was not al- 58 21) together unconvinced. €3 09) ‘We shall see, as this story pro- 65 (09 | Stesses, how near to the right solu- 62 .00| tion Daudet’s charges were. 65 ‘00| But whether murdered by a maffia, 69 00) an apache, an insane person or even 67 .00| slain by his own hand, the immediate i 7 question was that of solving the 68 (00 | Prince mystery. 70 «00 Big Reward Offered UTH One hundred thousand francs re- ” PARNTA a ward is a lot of money. In addition est est Pct,| to this reward, the association of mag- 96 72 00] istrates offered more—50,000 francs Huron, cldy. oe Rapid’ Guy, poldy. 10 90 Ge 08 MINNESOTA POINTS High. Low- Minneapolis, cle a 66 0b } Clear . . A Moorhend, slay. s..sc5 92 6800 WEATHER IN OTHER STATES High- Lowe est est Pct. 4 56.00 Amarillo, Tex., clear ape. clear Ls eesebebeebepsessssssesssssesseehs=3s852 4 _sOdeneressesssseaesesassueressesaze iorced to ve & iitlie coli. The en- counter lasted about 10 minutes. It also developed that Prince had seme fear for his life. “If I were alone in knowing what I know in the Stavisky case,” he told his old frend Max Buteau, “my Ife would be worth less than @ sou.” Knew Other Side of Story | He had said to his son: ““ghat Stavisky scandal and its 19 pestpqne- ments $s nothing at all compa! to certain other sides of the story.” He had said to another friend, back in the days when he had asked to be transferred from his financial investi- gation duties to the Court of Appeals: “They will not let me ‘co my duty as ®& magistrate.” More still: Prince had mae ar-' rangements with the Identity Ser- vice of the police to photograph cer- tain documents. M. Sannie, in charge of this business, waited in vain for Prince to come as he had promised. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On this last day he learned of the tragedy which explained Prince's ab- sence, All in all there seemed to be little difficulty in associating Prince's death with the fact that he “knew too much” in the Stavisky case. Only the Surete continued to consider suicide as a possibility after March 1. The Press—and even the Dijon police— called it murder. They gave as a mo- tive the desire to close his mouth. They named as murderers “those who still have something to hide in the Stavisky scandal.” But it was on February 26 that an ominous word was published in the press. The word: Maffia. ‘The country shuddered. Could this be the vengeance of a maffia, an organization for crime—a Tmysterious, secret Black Hand, in some way identified with Stavisky and his protectors? That word caused much thinking. It was Leon Daudet in the Action Francaise from whose pen came the sinister word maffia, He did not im- ply the notorious secret Italian order of Sicily. His implication was noth- ing so romantic, so novelesque. He implied an organization composed of men high in the government of France, banded together in order to r|Profit by their high position, and to to-| Profit criminally. He implied that this organization, this maffia, was served by such men as Stavisky. He implied that they were aided by the east! very forces of law and order that had been established to protect the people of France from crime and criminals. ‘Maffia’ Implicated And he implied that this maffia had killed Albert Prince as a warning to others who might speak and betray the highly placed men in their organ- ization. It was a pretty serious implication. And it was taken seriously. Let us read what Leon Bailby, that sane, staid writer, has to say in the matter. He could not be accused of Political intrigue. He had no axe to grind with the government as Daudet had. The following is an excerpt from his editorial of February 26 in Le Jour: M. Doumergue is supported by the friendship and the recogni- tion of the honest men of France. And if the number end position of the others were listed in detail, we should discover what is re- ferred to as a maffia, in which the international Marxists and the free-masons are mingled—a force of some hundred thousand men, a force which is composed of our national weaknesses .. . ‘Was it possible that such an or- ganization, such a system could exist? Could Daudet, at whom the public laughed so frequently, who so easily used the superlative of exaggeration, the overtone of hyperbole, for his po- litical purposes, have discovered some secret union that had been sponsor- ing Stavisky and a hundred other swindlers, protecting crime and prey- more. And how the clues came in! Needless to say most were no good. There is a strong psychological power of suggestion about newspapers. If enough persons of a certain mental- ity read them on some exotic sub- Ject, of which the Prince murder was certainly a type, a great many visualize themselves in some way connected with the event. Legal his- tory shows that a great many false confessions have been made through HI i E if § g is ! § i g F # 3 i ayited lion the Russian gave. ‘This may seem vague but Simono- vitch will return to our story. Another witness was Mademoiselle Yvonne Taris, 28, who was selling tickets to a tombola, a sort of lottery for the Foch Foundation. M. Prince, | accosted by her, bought a ticket, she said, and shortiy afterward an ex- cited man rushed up to her, saying: “Mademoiselle, I won't buy a ticket jbut I'd like to know what direction the man you just sold one took.” Yvonne Taris told the police she considered it an indiscreet question and merely turned her back. The man, she said, wore a yellow coat, was well-dressed and had a slight foreign accent. Questioned more closely, she said she had known M Prince since seeing him at the Palais de Justice. Investigated, this proved to be true. Clues Prove Worthless Yvonne Taris also returns to our story. Lastly a man called Audinet, a counter clerk in the Bazaar of the Hotel de Ville, proved conclusively {ine he was the real-salesman of the hunting knife found near Prince’s purchaser he cou!d only say he was well-dressed @hd about 40 years old. There was ofe more witness whose | testimony. was taken for what it was |worth, and we will record it for the \same. This man, whose name did not appear, was traveling in the same train as Prince. He stood outside his compartment, smoking, against the brass rail by the outer window. He had a chance to observe the passen- gers. In one compartment he no- ticed a man whom he recognized, by |the photographs in next day’s paper, as Prince. And these testimonies, on March 3, were all the police had to go on. Not much, certainly. Indeed, the police had so little to go on—or else they blundered (pur- Posely or otherwise) with what they had—that for a solid month there were no significant developments in the case of Counsellor Prince. It is true that the doctors disagreed on the first autopsy. It is true that Dr. Kuhn discovered the traces of an anesthetic in the remains of Albert Prince, while Kohnabrest and his as- sociates refused to consider it. But another autopsy cleared the air and it became established that Prince had been chloroformed. Furthermore worn places in the shoes of the vic- tim revealed that his body had been In fact the Prince mystery was so complete, so utterly a mystery until March 29 (and for that matter, for a long time afterwards) that I am going to drop it for the time being and re- turn to the theme of Serge Alexandre, Sacha Stavisky & Co. Modern Minstrel Is Performing in City Bismarck was visited Tuesday by John Hinton, modern minstrel, who presented music and entertainment on wheels as part of the sales effort for the Pure Oil company, makers of Puro-Pep gasoline and ‘Tiolene Motor Oil. Hinton travels in a coupe to which is attached a 20-foot trailer, known as an aerocar, from which he broad- casts songs, stories and thrift hints to all who care to listen. He points out for example, that a motor car uses several times as much oil at 60 as at 30 miles an hour; that under- inflated tires increase gasoline con- sumption and that the use of quality Products help to decrease motoring costs in the long run. Hinton started his musical: career with ambitions to be an opera singer |bedy. But as to the identity of the; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, Archduke Otto Leaves Exile for Italy and Romance With Princess Brussels, Aug. 7.—(#)—The Arch. duke Otto, claimant to the throne of Austria, left his Belgian exile by au- tomobile Tuesday. It was announced that he was headed for Italy to join his mother, the Empress Zita, who has been there for the last three weeks, Otto’s trip was considered by in. formed quarters to be connected with matrimonial rather than political plans. He is expected to reach Italy this week-end, driving through Luxem. bourg to Switzerland. His baggage was sent direct by railroad. In the last few years, Otto’s name frequently has been linked in the suggestions of matrimonial plans for the Prineess Mafia, the youngest of the four daughters of the Italian royal family.. She is now aged 19, two years inger than Otto, the un- crowned King of Hungary. Reports of their engagement were denied last October. . The Archduke and the Empress Zita have been watching with keen inter- est the recent events in Austria. The impression was given by the members of the staff of “King” Otto—as he is known within the thick walls of Steen- ockerzeel castle—that he does not consider the time opportune for an attempt to restore the Hapsburg throne in Austria. Since the assassination of Chan- cellor Dollfuss, however, many be- eve that the return of a Hapsburg but minstrelsy called pnd he later starred with Neil O’Brien’s and J. A. Cochrane's minstrels. ‘With the arrival of radio he be- came a star in that field, singing over several stations and the Columbia chain, His summer tour as a wan- dering minstrel represents a return to his old love during the current lull jin the broadcasting season, Seed Companies Seek Rail Rate Revision Washington, Aug. 7.— (®) —The Farmers Seed and Nursery company, of Faribault, Minn., the Minneapolis Seed company and Northrup King & Co., both of Minncapolis, Tuesday asked the interstate commerce com- mission to revise the present rates on the transportation cf clover seed s0 that it will be not more than 112 Per cent of the present wheat rates. Directing their complaint at 11 middle west and northwest railroads the complainants charged excessive rates were being charged for trans- portation of the clover seed to desti- nations not only in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, but also to Mis- souri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tlli- nois, and Wisconsin. The complainants also asked for reparation to be determined after the commission's investigation. 5,000 Will Compose Alcohol Tax Force Washington, Aug. 7.—(?)—Secretary Morgenthau plans to increase his al- cohol tax force to 5,000 men as he “fights to the finish to eliminate the bootlegger.” In what officials called the greatest drive ever conducted against tax- doging liquor, the treasury head equipped 15 newly organized alcohol Honolulu, Aug. 7.— Well, we are heading for the broad Pacific. It’s been a wonderful week here, but it would take months to sec ARCHDUKE OTTO to the Austrian throne is needed of the Nazis in Austria. It is accepted in Rome as a that Chancellor Sch come to Italy shortly to visit but whether Otto will participat the conference is conjectural. tax districts with supervisory nel and disclosed that 1,301 ment investigators already are in the field. % District No. 12: Investigators in g 5 g i i 3 g g E Ez is 5 s 5. 2 i To Visit Bismarck Sixteen representatives of the Tex- operating in North Da- s i i i 2 4 ES 5 the Prince hotel. Dodge and his party will leave Wed- charge—Clark H. Oarhart, St. Paul,/nesday night for Butte, Mont. Minn. Benjamin F. | Des Falls, 8. D., and Harold F. Crowley, Omaha, Neb. District No. 15: Investigators. in a | Commission Grants Licenses to Pilots pilots’ licenses have been charge include Robert D. Ford, of|ioucd ty the sate raliroad eommis- Helena, Mont. Postal Department Adds 1,885 Employes Washington, Aug. 7.—(#)—The ap- pointment of 1,885 additional regular by Postmaster General Farley. ‘The appoistments were made, Far- ley said, in order to provide “satisfac- tory postal facilities for the patrons of those offices.” senior substitute employes. Farley explained the need of ex- panding the personnel was shown by &@ survey made recently. He pointed out the new placements would fill holes left vacant heretofore by not refilling vacancies through resigna- tions, deaths and retirements. He said the decision could be taken as an indication of a pick-up in postal business and reported the July figures, for example, showed a measureable increase over those for the same month last year. In a day the average farmer walks 26 miles, a letter carrier 22, policemen 14, boys 15, girls 11, housewives 8 and acme 7, it has been esti. mat ston to Walter R. Bullock, Sioux City, ; gene 8. Shank, and Jerome H. Spar- bee, both of Sioux City. 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