SPANISH REVOLUTIONARIES

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 5

SPANISH REVOLUTIONARIES

THREE MEN EXECUTED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MADRID, December 5. Three of the persons who were condemned for the part which they took in the recent rising were executed. They protested their innocence to the. last. After the court martial at Pamplona the prisoners were acquitted. The case was then referred to a supreme court nartial in Madrid, which pronounced the leath sentence.—Reuter. EFFORT TO ESCAPE. A FATAL ATTEMPT. MADRID, December 6. (Received December 8, at 1.20 a.m.) It now appears that only two of the condemned men were executed. The third, while'on his way to the place of execution, jumped from the window of the car, and was killed.—Reuter. , ANOTHER ACCOUNT MADRID, December 7. (Received December 8, at 11 a.m.) The condemned man who committed suicide begged permission to shake hands with his fellow-prisoners, who tended to his injuries when he was wounded at Vera. Subsequently, when walking to the scaffold, surrounded by his confessor and members of the Brotherhood of Charity, he broke away, rushed upstairs, and jumped from a second floor window.— Reuter.