VOIKOFF’S MURDERER

Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 9

VOIKOFF’S MURDERER

INJURED IN PRISON YARD FELLED 'WITH CROWBAR. Press Association—By Tclegrapli-CopynglA WARSAW, August 10. (Received August 11, at 1.25 p.m.) While in the prison yard Kowerda, who shot M. Voikoff, was /died with a crowbar and seriously injured. It is believed that the act was to avenge M. Voikoff. [A Russian Monarchist named Boris Koworda, aged nineteen, fired.eight shots at M. Voikoff, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Soviet at Warsaw, on Juno 10, while the latter was entering a train with M. Rosengoltz. M. Voikoff was fatally wounded. M. Voikoff went to the station to meet M. Rosengoltz, who was on route to Moscow. The couple paced the platform for .some time chatting. _ Then M. Rosengoltz entered the train, and M. Voikoff was about to follow, when Kowerda, who is a student, shot him in the back. M. Voikoff whirled round, drew a revolver, and fired at Kowerda, but missed him. The next instant M. Voikoff fell doubled up on the platform, and his assailant, standing over him, poured into M. Voikoff'a body the remaining from the revolver. It was over in a few seconds. The onlookers seized Kowerda, who did not attempt to escape. M. Voikoff was taken to hospital suffering from eight wounds, and died withia an hour, Kowerda, while on the way to the police station, declared: “I acted from idealistic motives. 1 wanted to kill Voikoff in revenge for the Soviet terror against the Russian Monarchists.”. Kowerda was to fifteen years’ imprisonment.]