TRIAL OF ASSASSIN.
FORMER COSSACK GIVES EVIDENCE. (UKITEI} TRESS ASSOCIATION —BT ILICT4IO TT.LEQRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) PARIS, July 26. M. Francois Pietri, formor Minister for Defence, describing, at the trial of Paul Gorguloff, the assassination of President Doumcr, disclosed that Gorguloff fired a second shot while he was being held, a long time after the first. Lazaroff, an ex-Cossack, said Gorguloff represented the chief of the Cheka, and tortured 19 persons, including witness. lie described how his hands had been tied behind his back, and red-hot neodlos placed in his fingers, and matches stuck under his fingernails and sot alight. At this stage Gorguloff sprang lip and denounced Lazaroff as a liar. Three doctors declared that they did not believe Gorguloff to bp insane. He denied that they had examined him, except in the manner of gendarmes. A fourth doctor expressed the opinion that Gorguloff was .mentally unstable.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20610, 28 July 1932, Page 9
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