AN OUTRAGE OF 1920
SENTENCES IN SOFIA^
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■ (REBIEB'S. TELEGRAM,) - , (Received 22nd May, 10.30 am.) SOFIA, 21st May. A tribunal has sentenced to death! Proudkine, ex-Prefect of ■ Police,- and Patamanski and Loukoff, in -connection with the bomb, outrage, at..the. Odeon Theatre in 1920. Patamanski was sentenced in his absence, having refused to appeal.; The ex-Minister, Moui-avieff, and Ferdinand Markoff," were' acquitted.-
The Odeon (or Odin) Theatre outrage occurred on 4th March. A Russian refuges was to deliver a lecture on Old and Aew Russia,..but. as it was the anniversary of the deliverance of Bulgaria from the Turkish yoke,- most of those,iuvited attended a TeDaum service-in the cathedral, and the ball was half empty and the lecture- delayed.- A-violent .explosion shook the building like' aii> earthquake;'the walls fell and the ceilmg^and floor collapsed; Three people, including the Attorney-General, were killed, and about a dozen were soriousty- injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 7
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148AN OUTRAGE OF 1920 Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 22 May 1925, Page 7
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