DOOMED TO DIE.
AFTER 11-YEAR LEGAL FIGHT. A death sentence after proceedings which lasted eleven years stands alone, it would seem, in the history of modem jurisprudence. The- record was set by a Court in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, which condemned to death a former sergeant-major in the Austro-Hungarian army, Ivan Pirtz, who during the war commanded a small post in the Sarajevo district, which was then a part of Austria. He was accused of arbitrarily ordering the shooting of a peasant, Marko Cilit, for alleged espionage in 1915. When Bosnia fell to Yugoslavia, Pirtz became a subject of the latter country. At the end of 1918. proceedings were instituted against him, and last year he was arrested. He was sentenced to the gallows after a trial lasting five days. Pirtz, who is 56, fainted when Hhe verdict was pronounced. The defence counsel has lodged a ptea- of noJHty,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 9
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147DOOMED TO DIE. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 9
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