TREASON TRIAL IN WARSAW
THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH
(Rec. 7 pm.) WARSAW, January 14. Count Ksawery-Grocholski, the key figure in the Polish treason trial, was sentenced to death for espionage on behalf of a foreign Power. Death sentences were also passed on Waldemar Baczak, an employee of the Polish Foreign Office, and Witold Kalicki, a Polish Army doctor. A woman secretary was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. The president of the court said the three men had been under foreign orders. They gathered material and gave it to “a diplomatic representative of a foreign State.” Mr Lewis Massey, Third Secretary at the British Embassy, was present when the sentences were read.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25084, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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