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The Alliance Independent
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
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The Figaro newspaper reveals that Charles de Lesseps testified Magistrate Franqueville that he paid blackmail to Baron Reinach and Cornelius Herz due to pressures from French officials de Freycinet, Floquet, and Clemenceau to avoid a lawsuit against the Panama Canal Company in 1888.
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De Freycinet and Floquet Said to Have Fathered the Blackmailer's Game.
PARIS, Feb. 28.—The Figaro to-day professes to reveal some sensational points affecting men who have stood high in the government which it claims, were elicited by Magistrate Franqueville, during the recent examinations of Charles de Lesseps. It states that Charles de Lesseps testified that it was owing to the urgency of the late minister of war, M. de Freycinet, and the late president of the chamber of deputies, M. Floquet, and of M. Clemenceau, that he yielded to the demands for money made upon him by the late Baron Reinach and Cornelius Herz, Reinach having threatened in 1888 to bring public suit against the Panama canal company, the exposures attending which might have proved highly disastrous to the company.
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Paris
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Feb. 28
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testimony revealed blackmail payments to avoid a potentially disastrous public lawsuit against the panama canal company in 1888.
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The Figaro reports sensational testimony from Charles de Lesseps to Magistrate Franqueville, stating he paid money to Baron Reinach and Cornelius Herz under pressure from high-ranking officials including de Freycinet, Floquet, and Clemenceau, due to Reinach's 1888 threat of a public suit against the Panama Canal Company.