FRENCH TRIAL
ACCUSED MAN'S STATEMENT
HIGH OFFICIALS IMPLICATED (Received November 8, 6.15 p.m.) PARIS. Nov. 7 The trial was continued to-day of Madame Stavisky and 20 others on charges connected with the Stavisky frauds. There was uproar in Court when one of the accused, Henri Cohen, ,said he had reported to the Surete Generale that, as appraiser of jewellery in the, Bayonne municipal pawn shop, he was valuing fake jewellery at the prices of genuine jewellery under Stavisky's instructions. Ten days later, said Cohen, Stavisky appeared with Cohen's letter in his hand and remarked significantly: " I am good'to my friends, but lam implacable to my enemies." After that Cohen said he had decided to be wiser and to shut his mouth. The prosecutor promised to make an immediate investigation into the allegation. Cohen also asserted that Albert Dalimier, formerly a Minister, who re-> signed as the result of the Stavisky scandal, but was exonerated of any peri sonal contact with the swindler, had repeate3ly, rung up Stavisky and made appointments with him. There was no further mention of the charges against M. Laval, which the press dismisses as without foundation, j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22262, 9 November 1935, Page 13
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