MADAME STAVISKY ACQUITTED
FIVE MEN CONVICTED OP COMPLICITY
PARIS, January 18.
Madame Stavisky and nine others accused of complicity in the Stavisky fraud case were acquitted. Five were found guilty under extenuating circumstances: Those convicted are:—The former Mayor of Bayonne, M. Joseph Garat, two years’ imprisonment; the former Deputy, M. Gaston Bonnaure, and General Bardi de Fourtou, an insurance official, two years; Paul Guebin, controller of a Bayonne pawnshop, five years; M. Gustave Tissier, a jewellery appraiser, seven years; M. Henri Cohen, theatre director, two years; M. Henri Hayotte, seven years. Stavisky’s associates, M. Rabl Desbrosses and M. Georges Hatot, were also convicted. Desbrosses was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and Hatot to two years. Bonnaure was treated as a first offender and will not be sentenced. All were ordered to pay 100 francs fine and costs. Civil suits against the defendants will begin on January 18,
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 17
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