SERVIAN MURDERS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 7

SERVIAN MURDERS

MINISTER INYOLTED.

ALLjsuATiQN by police .OFpciit: DX TEIiEOItAPH— PRESS ASSpCIATION-r-COP.TBIGHT. Ilea: Oct. Is, 4.14 pFmij, -m- i V Belgrade, October 12, M. Jerovios, ex-prefect of polico at 801 7 gFade, disclaims all responsibility ' for the murder of M. Npyokovips and liis'compa'niqn in prison. .. ....... ~ * , M. Jerovios declares that lit.; Stpyan Profe itchi Minister for the Interior, ytas present Yfheu bpt>li were killed. :.

M: Novakovics, an anti-regicide-Editor, and an 'ofßcor, also an anti-regicide, were iil&rceratcd. without trial for soino allefred- minor ofTencj, and met their deaths'in gaol. '■■ 'At first

it was stated that-they caused aiyqutbroak in.Baplaud then coriunitted siiicidp. "If lias since' been alleged that' the men were murdered by' being sandbagged in their cells, and that the bodies '-\y-cfe, after an autopsy, burned;' by; the police. The incident caused ; ; a popul(ir*.-der mpnsiratiQn, the popple shouting Dqwn with: King Peter," bijt tlie militaiT.'pvor-aived'themi The regicide clique h,ns,:it.is. sfeid," never lost' , its influencp in tlie Soman c6(uiselsVr.",S_ervja' 1 J, writes a Belgrade coyrespoii'deiit,*" seems to 1 be singularly lacking in "strong inen : witli'respept; able:character and it will be''interesting'"to., see' whether anypne will apnear- wh'6 ;: will dare to stand up against tho reigning pliciuo, and what will be the fato of King Peter.'' ;.W'- ■;