WIDOW CLAIMS £25,000

Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 4

WIDOW CLAIMS £25,000

STAV)BKY*B INSURANCE DISPUTE WITH COMPANY. Insurance amounting in all to 2,000,000 francs ~ (approximately £25,000 at current rates) was lately ui dispute in a Paris court between Mme Stavisky and the company With Which her husband’s life was insured. The policy, which covers Mme. otavisky oli the death of her husband for 1 060,000 Mlics, and each of her children fbl- 606,000. francs, _is held by the company to be invalid in case of suicide Mine. 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 wete surrounding the house At Chamonix, to Which he had fled. M. (Jaston Bohnaure, the deputy who wAs charged with receiving money in connection With the Stavisky. Case of which he knew the fraudulent source, came out front his five-hour itw tervieW With the investigating magistrate at Bayonne, and was greeted by a booing mob. So threatening did the mob’s attitude become that M. Bonnaure took refuge in a house which, unfortu-

nately, had no back door. Th|B polica came to his rescue and tried to squeeze him through ah attic window, but M. BonnaurO’s girth prevented escape. Finally the police ttiok him Off in a police" lorrv, while the crowd shouted, ‘‘ The police have got .VOii, after all."'