THE STAVISKY CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 16

THE STAVISKY CASE

WIFE CLAIMS INSURANCE

Insurance amounting in all to 2,000,000 francs (approximately _£25,000 at current rates), was recently in dispute in a Paris Court between Mme. Stavisky and the company with which her husband's'life was insured, says an English -paper. The policy, which covers Mme. Stavisky on the death of her husband for 1,000,000 francs, and each of her children for 500,000 francs, is held by the- company to bo invalid in case of suicide. Mme. Stavisky, however, maintains that her husband's suicide was neither "conscious nor voluntary." The widow is taking the 'matter to Court, and will advance medical opinion that her husband was suffering from acute mental depression, to which was added the anguish of a fugitive who for two hours was aware that the police were surrounding the house at Chainonix to which he had fled. M. Gaston Bonnaure, the Deputy who was charged with receiving money in connection with the- Stavisky case of which he knew the fraudulent source, camo out from his five-hour interview with the investigating Magistrate at Bayonne, and was greeted by a booing mob. So threatening did the mob's attitude becomo that M. Bonnaure took refuge in a house, which, unfortunately, had no back door. The police came to his rescue arid tried to squeeze him through- an attic window, but M. Bonnaure's girth prevented- escape; Finally the polieo took him off in- a policy lorry, while the crowd shouted, "The iJolicc have got you, after all."