FRENCH TRUNK MYSTERY
ACTION BY ALMAZIAN. -V HEAVY DAMAGE S 1 CLAIMED. . . (United Press Association.) tßy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS,'May 5. Almazian has entered an action for 1,000,000 francs damages against M. W. Amy, chief of the judicial identity laboratory, who declared that the stains on his clothes were human blood, whereas this was subsequently disproved. . Almazian, an Armenian tailor, was. arrested on October 20 in connection with the so-called wicker trunk mystery, a dead man named Frederic Rigaudin being found in ir wicker trunk at the Nord railway station, Lille, on September 13... It' was known that Rigaudin was the lover of Madame Almazian, a pretty young Pansienne. Almazian was released on April 10, after having been six months in prison, despite the fact that it had long been plain that there was _no evidence of his guilt. During his imprisonment he was subjected to a ruthless third degree examination fo( 48 hours, but he still protested hjs innocence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 11
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