LOVE AND PISTOLS
BEAUTY SURVEYS A DUEL.
EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWS.*. 1
(Per Press Association, Copyright) /Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 5.
The “Daily Express” says as sequel to the 'first duel fought since the revolution, 'Tertoff, an officer in the Red Army, and Nina Mochevilli, a well-known stage beauty, are charged with murdering Dyokonoff, an officer belonging to the Military Academy. The prosecution is demanding death sentences. v The trial is a result of a pistol duel fought in a park at Moscow at dawn, the victor being promised the hand of Mochevilli.
The officers, who were old friends in the same regiment, kissed each other on the cheeks, according to Russian custom, and fired. Dyokonoff was mortally wounded. The girl, who was a witness of the duel, rushed in and held the dying officer in her arms. The Court sentenced Tertoff to 18 months’ imprisonment and released the girl. The prosecutor’s demand for the extreme penalty was due to a fear of the army reverting the Czarist custom of duelling.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9860, 6 July 1923, Page 5
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