A REMARKABLE CAREER
HANDSOME RUSSIAN ADVENTURER SPLENDID WAR RECORD. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. PARIS, January 26, A Russian, adventurer named Mestcherskv has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and ten years’ local banishment for threatening two Turkish diamond merchants with a revolver, obtaining from them 500,000 francs for a packet supposed to contain diamonds. Mestchersky had a- remarkable career. He fought in" the Russo-Japanese War, and later joined a gang of criminals. He was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, but escaped from prison and joined a gang of Bulgarian bandits, and made sufficient from ransoms to buy a farm in South America. He returned to France at the outbreak of the Great War. and won the Croix de Guerre and the British Military Medal. Mestchersky is strikingly handsome. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18851, 28 January 1925, Page 6
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131A REMARKABLE CAREER Evening Star, Issue 18851, 28 January 1925, Page 6
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