STAVISKY SCANDAL
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY WIDOW'S PATHETIC PLEA (Received January !), 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Jan. 8 Clarl jit black and heavily veiled withcrepe, Madame Arlette Sta visky, a shadow of her forniei beautiful self, was brought from prison to-day to fare the Chamber of Deputies' Commission of Inquiry. Madame Staviskv made a pathetic appeal iV>r release. She said she had been kept in prison in spite of the assurances of the examining magistrate that she "would be set lree and four reports from experts stating that she was innocent. M. Poulner, an old friend of Staviskv, who secured the cancellation of his sentence of eight months' imprisonment, is maintaining Madame Stavisky's children and enabled her to claim bail. A cablegram from Paris on December '5. (stated that Madame Stavisky, who had been in prison without being charged for nine months, had been formally charged with receiving stolen goods. Her husband was reported to nave .committed suicide on the eve ot the exposure of large-scale frauds on his part.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 9
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