SUMMARY JUSTICE
(Received 20th October, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 19th October. Justice in Budapest is summary in the extreme, Alexander Ondi, a baker's assistant, was sentenced to death at 4 p.m. for an armed bank hold-up, and hanged in the prison yard at 6.30. Ondi and a 19-year-old accomplice donned masks, and brandishing revolvers, rushed a bank in. the busiest part of the city, lined up tho terrified employees by the wall, and decamped with a £acket of notes. Both were quickly arrested, and all the moneys recovered.
The lads pleaded that the exploits of cinema stars had suggested tho hold-up, but the law was adamant. Ondi's accomplice was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1931, Page 7
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