Suspected of Assassination Complicity Sylvestre Malny, the Croat terrorist who is stated to have confessed to have been concerned in the plot to kill King Alexander at Marseilles, He was arrested following a long search after he broke away from Gendermes near Paris, and is alleged to have admitted that he accompanied the actual assassin to the scene of the crime, but that his nerve failed at the last moment. October 17, 1934.