The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-07
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join nun some ot0er time. The man
was SO insistent that Prince was
ioTceI 70 We little COLI. The en-
counter lasted about 10 minutes.
It also developed that Prince had
some fear for his life.
If were alone In knowing what
know In the 6tayisky case" he told
his old friend Max Buteau, my lie
would be worth less than Z SOU" .
Knew Other Side a Story
He had said to his son: s.1hat
Stavisky scandal and It's ID pestpone-
ments Is nothing at all compared to
certain other aides Of the story" n
He had said to another friend, back
In the days when he had asked to be
transferred from his financial investi-
cation duties to the Court Of Appeals:
They will not let me co my duty as
a magistrate"
More still: Prince tad made ar
rangements with the Identity Ser
vice Of the police to photograph Ger
tain documents. NJ. Sannie, in charge
Of this business, waited In vain for
Prince to come as he had promised.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
On this last day he learned Of the
tragedy which explained Princes alb
Sencc.
All In all there seemed to be little
difficulty in associating Princes death
with the fact that he "knew too
much" In the Stavisky case. Only the
Surete continued to consider suicide
as possibility after March l. The
press-and even the Dion police
called 1t murder. They gave as a mo-
tive the desire to close his mouth.
They named as murderers those who
still have something to hide In the
Stavisky scandal"
But It was ON February 26 that an
ominous word was published in the
press. The word: Maffia.
The country shuddered.
Could this be the vengeance Of q
MALTA, an organization for crimes
mysterious, secret Black Hand, in
some way identified with Stavisky
and his protectors?
That word caused much thinking.
It was Leon Daudet In the Action
Franchise from whose pen came the
sinister word malta. He did not i'm
ply the notorious secret italian order
Of Sicily. His implication was MOTH
Ing 50 romantic. so novelesque. He
implied an organization composed Of
men high In the government Of
France, banded together in order to
profit by their high position, and to
profit criminally. He implied that
this organization, this malta, was
served by such men as Stavisky. He
implied that they were aided by the
very forces Of law and order that had
been established to protect the people
OF France from crime and criminals.
'Maffia' Implicated
And he implied that this malta had
killed Albert Prince as q warning to
others who might speak and betray
the highly placed men in their organ
ization.
It was a pretty serious implication.
And 1t was taken seriously.
Let us read what Leon Bailby, that
sane, staid writer, has to say In the
matter. He could not be accused of
political intrigue. He had no axe to
grind with the government as Daudet
had. The following Is an excerpt
from his editorial Of February Is In
lie Jour:
M. Doumergue IS supported by
the friendship and the recogni-
ton of the honest men Of France.
And II the number and position
of the others were listed In detail,
we should discover what Is re-
ferred to as maffia In which
the international Marxists and
the free-masons are mingled
force of some hundred thousand
men, q force which is composed OF
our national weaknesses -.
Was 1t possible that such an Or