SEQUEL TO A DUEL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1923, Page 7

SEQUEL TO A DUEL

VICTIM- IMPRISONED FOR

MURDER,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,—COPYRIGHT.)

UUSIRALtAN - KEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) . ■ MOSCOW, 15th July. T t ertoff, on a charge of murdering Dyokonoff in a duel, has been sentenced to eight years' -imprisonment. Nina Mochevilli, the stage beauty, over whom the. men quarrelled, was acquitted on a charge of complicity.

• [A duel with pistols was fought in a park in Moscow between Tertoff, an officer of the Red Army, and Dyokonoff, an officer in the Military Academy, the victor being promised the hand of Nina Mochevilli,. a well-known sta^e beauty. _ The officers, who were old friends in the. same regiment, kissed each other in accordance with Russian custom, and fired, and Dyokonoff was mortally wounded. . The girl who witnesesd the duel, rushed to'the dying officer and held him in her amis. The prosecution demanded the extreme penalty, owing to the fear of the Army reverting to the Tsarist custom of the duel. A previous. message stated that the Court had sentenced Tertoff to ek'htcen months' imprisonment:] °