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...investigation has already linked the swindler to one famed murder of many years ago, the mysterious death of Jean Galmot, Deputy from French Guiana, in 1928 (TIME, April 2). Indirectly last week it brought to final conclusion another financial scandal that 23 years ago shook France almost as deeply. Henri Rochette was another swindler to hold his own. Starting as a waiter in a French hotel with a $1,000 inheritance, he pyramided strange financial operations until in 1908, aged 29, he was the organizer of a dozen companies, one of which had 60 branches and had sold...
...Henri Rochette was sentenced to two years in prison, which he never served, fleeing to Mexico instead. During the War he turned up in the Verdun trenches, fighting under an assumed name. Later he appeared as a character in the Oustric bank failure. Last month French justice, smarting under charges of laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail...
Wildly facing a crescent of judges, Henri Rochette cried...
...Henri Rochette whipped out a razor sharp knife. Right in the middle of the court room he slashed his throat from ear to ear. Carefully tucked inside Henri Rochette's hat was a note...
Last week Henri Matisse's smart son, Pierre, opened a Dufy water color show in Manhattan. Most of the pictures were recent, all were typical. Like Matisse, Dufy uses startling paint, but his staccato drawing and deliberately off-register coloring are individual. His favorite scenes are fashionable: the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, the racetracks at Longchamp and Epsom, casinos at Deauville, boats at Cowes. Critics rate his talent witty and observant, have never granted him the accolades bestowed on his master...