CARRYING A PISTOL
THE THREAT AGAINST KRASSIN
WOMANTO.BE DEPORTED.
(O.NIISD MESS ASSOCIATION COPlltlc'lT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-MET ZSALAKD CABLI ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, 26th December.
Mrs. Marie Dickson, the Russian widow of an American, • who was arrested a fortnight ago, when she waited with a revolver at' the Russian Embassy to .kill M. Kxassin, was to-day sentenced by the Correctional Court to three weeks' imprisonment for carrying the weapon. She will, upon release, be deported from France.
A Communist attorney, who represented the Embassy, told the Court that the prisoner was also the widow pf' a notorious - Russian agent provbeateur Azeff. whom syndicalists assassinated as a traitor. The court took cognisance, of this, but refused to permit him to enter a complaint,, explaining that the woman was being tried only for carrying a weapon. ■.
Mrs. Dickson's counsel, Maitre Garcon, painted a tragic picture of the horror of the revolution and the suffering of the Russian masses under the Soviet regime, at which the prisoner "interjected : "I wanted to save France from this same terror." . c -
The Court, in pronouncine. sentence, > said that even were -M. r Krnssin responsible for all the suffering of the revolution it would not- give the prisoner - the right to attempt to kill him in French territory
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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206CARRYING A PISTOL Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1924, Page 7
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