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L'Oeuvre 19 juillet 1923 (art. page une)


Did Mr. Quemeneur's assassin have accomplices?

Morlaix, July 18. — The Quemeneur affair is getting tougher. Will the singular discovery, in the lining of Seznec's jacket, of the two thousand-franc notes and the enigmatic handwritten note, finally provide the key to the mystery?
“To find out what to do,” this note said, “go out into the hallway and tear up the two envelopes. » Who wrote these words? It seems established that they are not by Seznec. And we assure, on the other hand, that careful and frequent searches had been carried out on the accused in Paris, notably on June 30. We wonder, in these conditions, how Seznec could have been found carrying this sum and this paper when he arrived in Morlaix.
The opinion tends to be supported here that the mechanic was only a second-rate performer, that the coup was, in reality, mounted by a group of people who had an interest in seeing the general councilor of Finistère disappear. . And we do not hesitate to give details and to evoke again another affair no less mysterious than this one, about which certain names from Mr. Quemeneur's entourage had been mentioned.
We should probably take these rumors for what they are worth. And it remains possible to assume that the tickets and the note were forgotten in Seznec's sleeve to lead the research astray. In any case, we are placing a lot of hope on the hearing of several new witnesses, whose summons Mr. Campion, the investigating judge, has decided.
Mr. Bony, Mr. Vidal's secretary, was also given the task of taking to Paris the clothes and objects seized from Seznec: blue canvas pants, bearing suspicious stains, an overcoat, a jacket, an account book and a bottle of ink whose composition will be compared to that which was used for the handwritten indications of the famous deed of sale of the Plourivo property. Everything will be handed over to Mr. Guépet, investigating judge in Paris, who will forward it to Mr. Bayle, director of the judicial research laboratory, for the purpose of expertise.
Seznec will be questioned on Friday at 2 p.m., in the presence of Me Faillard, his defender. He is very depressed and prey to frequent crying fits. In front of his wife who, accompanied by his two children, came to see him at the remand center, he protested again about his innocence.
“I don’t understand anything that’s happening to me,” he said, sobbing. I certainly have the devil against me; I am the victim of a diabolical scheme. Don't be discouraged, my friend, replied Ms. Seznec, you will be heard. No one here believes in your guilt... — Oh! I don't care what the world says, I only care about two things: maintaining your trust and the friendship of my children.
Mrs. Seznec, who was asked this evening where the two bank notes found in the sleeve of her husband's jacket could have come from, replied: — When Guillaume was invited to go to the General Security, he did not want to not leave immediately and told the mobile brigade agents “I have no money, I have to wait until tomorrow to get funds”. However, a few days earlier, my husband had received 4,800 francs from the Banque Brestoise. It was undoubtedly part of this sum that he hid up his sleeve so that it would escape police investigations. As for the note on which was written: "To find out what to do, go out into the corridor and tear up the two envelopes..." I don't know what that means and I don't understand anything about it. »
Will the expected twist occur? Everything depends on the results of the various expert assessments that have been ordered.


affaire Seznec