El crimen del Capitán Sanchez ( Captain Sanchez´crime)
(Everything was resolved gracefully to a 5000 pesetas FICHA (plaque) from the Circulo de Bellas Artes, that Maria Luisa ( Capitan Sánchez´daughter and Garcia Jalón's lover), wanted to change after the murder.)
Could be the plaque this one??

In the records are referred a 5000 pesetas FICHA ( Spanish use the word indistinctly to JETON; CHIP, TOKEN or even PLAQUE).
In the descriptions below I maintain the original word FICHA but as for the high value of 5000 pesetas I assume that was a plaque.

On April 25, 1913, a young woman entered the CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES (where the entry of women was not allowed), located then, on Calle Alcalá in Madrid. He advanced to the box. He had a Casino FICHA ( plaque) , 5,000 pesetas to change (a real fortune for the time - saleswoman earned between 30 and 40 pesetas a month and a maid , about 10 to 15 pesetas). The cashier informed him that he could not be there and that only members could exchange fichas ( jetons and plaques). The bellboy, Antonio Garcia, accompanied the young women (María Luisa Sánchez Noguerol) to the door, where he saw her talking to a man in his early forties, tall, with a mustache.
The crime actors
The crime actors
Rodrigo García Jalón was fifty years old, he was a widower with a considerable fortune and one of his great passions was dedicated to gambling, and he was a regular frequenter of the CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES. On April 24, he also went to the Círculo de Bellas Artes, where he exchanged 5,000 pesetas for a FICHA (plaque). "The place I go to is not convenient for me to carry so much money," he said to the cashier. . When making the deposit, García Jalón gave instructions that only he could change the FICHA (plaque).
Jalón had met a young woman with whom he became attached. María Luisa Sánchez Noguerol was barely twenty years old, she worked as an ironer.
While at the casino ( CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES) in the company of his father, Maria Luisa meets Rodrigo Garcia Jalón,. Jalón, is smitten by Maria Luisa and begins to entice the young girl into a relationship with her. He offers to provide for her generously if she becomes his lover.
She told García Jalón that she was an orphan and that she and her siblings were going through serious financial hardships. The widower offered to shelter her and her siblings in his home. That April 24, Jalón and María Luisa met at her house. The first intended to strengthen the relationship.
Captain Sánchez realizes what is going on between the widower and Maria Luisa, he convinces his daughter to trap Jalón in one of their skims and blackmail him for a large amount of money. Following that plan, Maria Luisa invites her paramour to her house, pretending to be alone. Captain Sánchez is hiding, waiting to trap the unsuspected Jalón. All is happening according to plan, but when the captain overhears the sincere love confession of Jalón for his daughter asking to marry him, he becomes outraged. In a fit of jealousy, the Captain grasps an ax and decapitates Jalón

Manuel Sánchez López was a captain in the reserve, who had a home in the School of War, and was father of María Luisa
Manuel Sánchez, a widower with five children and an elderly father, struggles to support his large family with his meager salary as member of the Spanish army. His passion for gambling does not help his dire circumstances
His daughter's lover and pimp, gambling had ruined him and he was always short of money.
Father and daughter supplement their income skimming out money and jewelry from unsuspected men, who they trap in a relationship with the daughter in order to demand money to repair her honor. Father and daughter also have an incestuous relationship that has been going on for years.

When he murdered Rodrigo García Jalón with a strong hammer blow, he was looking for money and, perhaps, to get rid of whoever wanted to take him away from his daughter, with whom he had incestuous relationships since she was ten years old and who was the family's main source of income. . He searched him but found hardly any valuables: 100 pesetas, a watch and the FICHA ( plaque of the BELLAS ARTES casino
García Jalón's family denounced the disappearance of the widower.
The Criminal Investigation Brigade began the investigations by the FICHA ( plaque) of the Casino . They discovered that the day after Jalón's deposit, a young woman tried to change the FICHA ( plaque) and managed to locate the young woman. The fence around the father and daughter was closing. Both were arrested but released.
Some soldiers from the Escuela Superior de Guerra reported that they carried out work on Captain Sánchez's toilet, which gave off an unbearable stench. That's when police found him skeletal remains in the sewer. The house of Captain Sánchez was searched and signs of recent manipulation were observed on a wall that sounded hollow. A hole was easily ripped open. And there, in a chimney flue, were the dismembered remains of Rodrigo García Jalón and his bloody clothes.
Father and daughter were then arrested
The daughter gave in: she said that she took García Jalón to her house to talk to her father, but that at no time did she think that he would kill him. His father entered and struck the deceased from behind with a hammer. They then proceeded to dismember it to make the remains disappear.
Given the military character of the main defendant, everything passed to the military jurisdiction. However, the evidence was irrefutable and the court sentenced Captain Sánchez to death (he was shot) and his daughter María Luisa to twenty years in prison, which were replaced by life imprisonment in the Supreme Court. Secluded in a psychiatric hospital, she died twelve years later.
FROM THE PRESS
MUNDO GRÁFICO 28 MAIO 1913





b]MUNDO GRAFICO 4 JUNHO 1913

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THE MOVIE

CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES- Madrid

This institution was founded in April 1880 through the efforts of a small group of artists. Originally it was a very restricted society, but with cultural diffusion. The current headquarters of the Cercle was inaugurated by Alfonso XIII on Monday, November 8, 1926. One of the activities with the longest tradition in the history of the Circle are masked balls that started out in February 1881. Gambling worked heavily in the Circulo. Gambling was illegal in Spain, but it worked in several clubs with the complacency of the authorities. It constituted the main revenue of clubs and it was it that allowed its survival.




THE KING OF SPAIN at Circulo de Bellas Artes


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