The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-06
Clever Trap Is Revealed
N PRINCE ! INQUEST i !! !;
Police Again Play Dumb

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question Of m operation.
| y IT, doctor who habitually cares
for Nine. Charles Prince Is DR..
Ehringer, not Hallinger. Albert Prince
knew him very well.
| And strangest Of all, DR.. Etringer
himself had never heard Of the fam
Gus telephone call, had never 'paoned
nor caused such q message to be sent.
Fell Into Clever Trap
Then, In view OF these facts, there
could be no doubt that Counsellor
Prince had been called into q care
fully laid trap, enticed away from
Paris by false call. and killed by
someone who wanted him out OF the
way.
But the investigators. checking his
movements in Dion, learned that he
had gone straight to the Hotel Morot,
had registered and taken q room there,
leaving small suitcase, and had
gone away, brief case In hand. He
was next found at the Combe-aux-
Fees In fragments.
Here is the official itinerary as es-
tablished:
4:40-arrives at Dion station
4:45-Hotel Morot
4:55-returns toward station
5:O0-sends telegram
Then he Is lost to view. Before
long Inspector Belin Of the Surete
was sent out to Dion on the investi-
CATION. But Inspector Belin, the big
city" sleuth. seemed to get exactly
nowhere. In fact his first report to
the press was inclined to favor the
theory of suicide!
Suicide! suicide!!! The press
pounced on the word. Hat not the
surete Generate already insulted the
intelligence Of the public with the
suicide" story Of Stavisky7 Was this
to be another absurdity Of the same
nature?
Prince, a man who probably knew
more Of the details in the Stavisky
case than any other living soul, Is
called out to Dijon by a fake telephone
call-to see his mother on her sick
bed when she Is not i'll at all; sends
wire back to his wife which AYERS
that Dr.. Hallinger land there is no
such doctor) calls his mothers state
as normal as possible" vanishes in
mid-a and Is found several hours
later with his body in pieces on q
railroad track. And they call It sui
eide"
So much for the cleverness Of the
national police, the Surete.
Not only that but Judge Pressard
who, as you will remember, had been
transferred under the sanction of
Daladier at the same time Chiappe
had been promoted to govern Nor
occo". came in for some sharp criti-
cism by publicly crediting the theory
Of suicide.
We shall speak more specifically Of
M. Pressard shortly.
Advance Girl Friend Theory
Another theory. brought forward
by who, Is that Prince
had deceived his wife and had gone to
Dion to see some girl-frtend. It add
ed that the girl-friend was of the un-
derworld and that she had a mac
quereau "a very special sort Of boy
friend), unknown to Prince, who ar
ranged with her to avenge some spite
or jealousy on the counsellor Judge.
Now this IS not q pretty theory. It
does little credit to the private life Of
NJ. Albert Prince. It was shown, as q
matter of fact, that his private life
was immaculate and that any such
suggestion was absurd.
But M. Camille Chautemps. ex-
Premier Of France, permitted himself
to suggest. publicly and at the Cham
Der Of Deputies, that Princes death
could be ascribed to just such a sordid
cause. "Cherchez la Femme" was the
idea.
Chautemps, by the way. is the
brother I'm law of M. Counsellor
Pressard.
However, leaving these specula-
lions, let us return to the facts re-
vealed by the police, meager as they
were. In Dion 1t took the investi-
gators some twelve days Ito March y
to obtain the following material. Re-
suit: They were no nearer the solu-
ton of this crime than they were the
moment they found the body.
But here Is what they learned.
A station master from Plombieres
testified that he had seen, toward 1880.
large, rich-looxing closed car stand
ing parked near the railroad tracks
on the road to Tallant, just few me-
ters from the scene Of the crime.
After carefully checking at the CEN
trail it was learned that no telephone
call had been sent through to Paris
from Dion at sny time near that
when Nine. Prince received her fatal
message.
The concierge or janitress Of the
boarding house where Nine. Charles
Prince lived In Dion, in the rue Con-
dorcet, reported that two men had
called during the month Of January
and had asked about Nine. Prince
the mother OF the dead man. She
said they had particularly asked the
name Of her regular doctor who was
to be sure, DR.. Ehringer.
i Furthermore servant In the same
house reported that woman had pre-
sented herself at the house, had asked
for Nine. Prince, had requested the
servant to take her card up and had
waited for q reply. The maid sale
that she found Mime. Prince oil ready
to 60 out, but that when she delivered
the card the old woman had seemed
annoyed and had said, Tell her In
out"
il Questioned on this Mime. Charlie
Prince confirmed It. The incident
took place on the morning Of Febru'
airy 20. Nine. Charles Prince said snl
did not know the woman but that he1
card showed her to be solicitor To-
some charity. This Was why sh'
showed annoyance.
i More mysterious strangers, however
i Dope Evidence Destroyed
II The evening az February Il. WheI