M. KRASSIN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 9

M. KRASSIN.

♦ A WOULD-BE SLAYER. WOMAN SENTENCED. (BT CABLE—TRESS ASSOCIATION—OOpniIGHT) (AUSTRALIAN' AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 28th, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, December 26. Mrs Mario Dickson, the Russian widow of an American, who arrived a fortnight ago, when she waited with a revolver in hand at the Russian Embassy to kill M. Krassin, was to-day sentenced by the Correctional Court to threo weeks in prison for carrying the weapon. She will upon her roleaso be deported from France. A Communist attorney, M. Berthon, representing the Embassy, told the Court she also was the widow of the notorious Russian agent-provocateur Azeff, whom the Syndicalists assassinated as a traitor. The Court took cognisance of this, but refused to permit M. Berthon to enter a complaint, explaining that tho woman was being tried only for carrying the weapon. Mrs Dickson's counsel, Maitre painted a tragic picture of the horror of the Revolution and tho suffering of tho Russian masses under the Soviet regime, at which the prisoner interjected: "I wanted to save France from this same terror." TMie Court, in pronouncing sentence, said even were M. Krassin responsible for all the suffering of the Revolution, it would not give the prisoner tho right to attempt to kill him in Preach territory.