Affaire Seznec : Léon Turrou était-il à bord du Berengaria le 21 mai 1923 ?
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Léon George Turrou aurait voyagé à bord du Berengaria New York / Cherbourg et aurait débarqué le Lundi de Pentecôte 21 mai 1923.
Il aurait joint Guillaume Seznec qui aurait téléphoné à Pierre Quémeneur à Landerneau, le soir même.
Les deux seuls listes de passagers de 1923 où se trouve Turrou sont les suivantes :
1/ Le 25 mars 1923. Arrivé à New York, avec femme et enfants, sur le navire "Paris" au départ du Havre :
2/ Le 13 juillet 1923. Arrivée à New York, seul, sur le Berengaria au départ de Cherbourg.
Pour l'arrivée à Cherbourg du Berengaria le 21 mai 1923...
"The Chicago Tribune and the Daily news, New York" des 14, 20 et 22 mai 1923 :
Le Berengaria est bien arrivé le Lundi de Pentecôte 21 mai 1923 à 16 heures à Cherbourg.
Mais Léon Turrou était-il ou non à bord ?
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The Chicago tribune and the Daily news, New York
The Chicago tribune and the Daily news, New York -- 1923-05-22 -- periodiques
The Chicago tribune and the Daily news, New York.
Vous m'objecterez : si Léon George est reparti en juillet 1923...
C'est bien qu'il était revenu en France, non ?
Oui...
Turrou rencontre Hoover dans la semaine du 4 au 10 mai 1923 à New York.
"Le prochain départ de New York est situé vers le 15 mai avec une arrivée prévue à Cherbourg le 20 ou 21 mai. Nous n'avons pas retrouvé la liste des passagers sur la ligne New York - Cherbourg. Par contre, il est bien sur la liste des passagers de retour vers les Etats-Unis, au départ de Cherbourg, le 7 juillet 1923." in Affaire Seznec : Les archives du FBI ont parlé".
Le 21 mai pour téléphoner à Guillaume Seznec, avant 20 heures, pour amorcer l'arnaque.
Le 26 mai, pour aller avec Pierre Quémeneur à la Bankers Trust de la Place Vendôme, pour finaliser l'arnaque.
"Le samedi 26 mai, Pierre Quéméneur rencontre Léon Turrou. Il verse un dépôt de garantie de 60.000 FF. Il doit encore déposer une rallonge de 40 000 FF quand il aura touché le chèque de Pouliquen. Il se présente deux fois au bureau de poste mais le chèque n'est pas arrivé. Les deux hommes ont rendez-vous l'après-midi pour finaliser le détail du marché des Cadillac. Mais, en fin d'après-midi, Léon Turrou est introuvable. Pierre Quéméneur se présente à sa banque la Bankers Trust, Place Vendôme, où il apprend que le compte a été vidé. Léon Turrou a pris le train pour Monaco où il va mener grande vie. Il dispose d'environ 160 000 FF car il vient d'arnaquer des commerçants russes."
Voyage à Monte Carlo :
D'après le Chaix de 1922, Paris - Monte-Carlo = 1104 kms.
Le prix d'un billet de 3è classe (le moins cher) est de 10,65 fr les 120 kms soit 95,85 fr pour 1080 kms + 2,15 fr pour les 24 kms supplémentaires pour atteindre les 1104 kms. Ce qui fait un total de 98 fr. En 1ère classe, ça coûtait 233,20 fr. En 2de, 153,65 fr.
Paris - Marseille = 862 kms Marseille - Monte-Carlo = 242 kms
Total = 1104 kms.
En prenant le train de 15h15 à Paris, il arrivait à 11h11 le lendemain à Monte-Carlo.
Léon George Turrou. Il y est écrit ce qui suit :
| Born | in Kobryn, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kobryn, Belarus] |
| Died | |
| Birth Name | Leon George Turrou |
| Height | 5' 8" (1,73 m) |
Leon George Turrou was born on 14 September, 1895 in Kobryn, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), of French and Polish parents. His father had died six months before his birth and his mother passed away not long after. Turrou was eventually adopted by a well-to-do merchant and spent much of his youth living in Egypt, India, China, Japan and Australia. He attended schools in Berlin and London before moving to America at the age of eighteen. There his fluency in seven languages landed him a job as a translator.
. After the war the couple moved to China where Turrou
found work as an administrator and became the father of two sons.
Sometime later Turrou's wife Teresa and their two young sons, Edward and
Victor (at the time Teresa may have been pregnant with Victor) traveled
to Siberia to visit her family. Later, after his wife and children
failed to return, Turrou was told that they had all been murdered during
the chaos that followed the Russian Revolution.
After the death of his family, Turrou returned to America and joined the
US Marine Corps. While stationed in France he was assigned to accompany
the American Relief Organization's mission to Moscow. There, he took
the opportunity to travel to Siberia to investigate the disappearance of
his family. Much to his surprise and relief he discovered that they
were alive and well.
On 13, July, 1923 Turrou returned with his family to America and started
a business importing dehydrated mushrooms from Poland. After the
venture collapsed he found employment as a postal clerk at the New York
Post Office. Not long afterwards he became Postal Inspector and, because
of his language skills, was put to work translating suspected obscene
material from overseas.
In 1928 an interview with FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover,
led to his appointment as an agent even though he lacked the normal
qualifications required of most prospective FBI agents. Over the next
decade Turrou would be involved in a shootout with "Pretty Boy" Floyd,
the Lindbergh baby kidnapping investigation, the investigation of the
Kansas City Union Station murders (in which an attempt was made on his
life) and the investigation into the crash of the USS Akron (ZRS-4), a
rigid helium-filled airship that crashed off the coast of New Jersey.
But the case that brought him his most notoriety was his participation
in the smashing of a Nazi spy ring in 1938. After the successful
conclusion of the Nazi spy case, Turrou resigned from the FBI to write
"Nazi Spies in America" (1938). Upon learning of Turrou's plan to write a
book, Hoover rejected his resignation and fired him.
During World War Two Turrou served on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
staff as an intelligence officer and at the close of the war was
instrumental in the rounding up of some 35,000 suspected Nazi war
criminals. In 1945 Turrou was awarded the Bronze Star in recognition of
his service to his country. Turrou's book, "Where My Shadow Falls"
(1949), chronicles his experiences with the FBI and as a lieutenant
colonel with the CID during the war. Turrou's son, Victor, served as a
Second Lieutenant with the US Army 66th Bomber Squadron 44th Bomber
Group. He was killed in action on 16 August, 1943 and interned at the
American Military Cemetery at Nettuno, Italy, 38 miles south of Rome.
In 1949 Turrou began working for billionaire Jean Paul Getty
in matters pertaining to security. He spent most of the rest of his
life living in Paris, France, where he became known as the unofficial
"American Mayor" of Paris and served as commander of the Paris chapter
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In 1976 he served as translator between
Vietnamese officials and a private group of Americans in a fruitless
attempt to ascertain the fate of USAF pilot Capt. Robert L. Tucci, who
was shot down over Laos in 1969.
Leon George Turrou died on 10 December, 1986, probably in Paris.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: John F. Barlow
Leon
had two sons with Teresa. The oldest, Edward A. Turrou, was born in
Tayga, Siberia on November 10, 1918. The youngest son, Victor Turrou,
was born there, also, on December 9, 1919. Leon and his family left
Russia from Vladavostok. Edward's earliest memories were of people
hanging by their necks from telephone poles, killed by the communist
revolutionaries, when the train that he and his family were on entered,
passed through and left towns along the Trans Siberian railroad.
It was March 9, 1923 that Leon and his family arrived in New York City, not July 23, 1923.
Leon became a naturalized citizen of the United States on Feb. 7, 1921.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert M Turrou
| Teresa Turrou | (? - ?) ( 2 children) |
"Après la guerre, le couple a
déménagé en Chine où Turrou a trouvé du travail en tant
qu'administrateur et est devenu père de deux fils. Quelque temps plus
tard, l'épouse de Turrou, Teresa, et leurs deux jeunes fils, Edward et
Victor (à l'époque où Teresa était peut-être enceinte de Victor) se sont
rendus en Sibérie pour rendre visite à sa famille. Plus tard, après que
sa femme et ses enfants ne soient pas revenus, Turrou a appris qu'ils
avaient tous été assassinés pendant le chaos qui a suivi la révolution
russe.
Après la mort de sa famille, Turrou est retourné en Amérique et a
rejoint l'US Marine Corps. En poste en France, il a été chargé
d'accompagner la mission de l'Organisation américaine de secours à
Moscou. Là, il en a profité pour se rendre en Sibérie pour enquêter sur
la disparition de sa famille. À sa grande surprise et soulagement, il a
découvert qu'ils étaient bien vivants.
Le 13 juillet 1923, Turrou revint avec sa famille en Amérique et fonda
une entreprise d'importation de champignons déshydratés de Pologne.
Après l'effondrement de l'entreprise, il a trouvé un emploi de commis
des postes au New York Post Office. Peu de temps après, il est devenu
inspecteur des postes et, en raison de ses compétences linguistiques, a
été contraint de traduire des documents obscènes suspects de
l'étranger."
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Leon George Turrou was born on 14 September, 1895 in Kobryn, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), of French and Polish parents. His father had died six months before his birth and his mother ...
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