SWINDLER’S ARREST
r A DRAMATIC RAID. I l (Reuter.) J PARIS, July 28.. l The police have eeffeted a dramatic i arrest, that of Sachastavisky, a Pole. - It is alleged that he carried out one ; of the biggest financial swindles of re- ■ cent times, defrauding bankers and ex- ■ change agents of huge sums by means of false cheques. Half-a-dozen detectives, armed with , revolvers, burst into a house where Sachastavisky was living in princely , style, maintaining as guests a group of followers, including Henri Hayotti (his secretary) and-Arlette Simon (his' mistress). Dinner was ’ about to be served to a dozen guests, whom the police held up while Sachastavisky was , discovered hiding in an ante-chamber. The arrest was made in the nick of time, for it was to have been a farewell party before Sachastavisky left for , Switzerland. Two limousines were already piled up with luggage ready for his departure after dinner. Sachas- ! tavisky and his secretary are in cuf tody, and Arlette Simon is in a nursing home under supervision.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1926, Page 6
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