MURDER BY RADIO

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 4

MURDER BY RADIO

.Soviet, radio realism, which has thrilled millions of listeners with drainas of real life enacted before the fnicrophone, reached a terrible climax recently when an actual murder was Committed in a broadcasting studio. From Tiflis. in the Caucasus, tbs faint voice of a police official could be heard describing a daring bank robbery for which a bandit was being sought. The official asked the inhabitants of Tiflis to come forward with information and help. “ The man is wanted for the robbery of 30,000 roubles from the Tiflis bank,” repeated the voice. “He is tall, broad . . .” The speaker was about to continue his description when three loud detonations were heard, followed by the crash of glass ap bullets fired from the street outside crashed through the window into the broadcasting studio. “I am hit,” cried ,the official, his voice trailing olf into a sobbing cough. Before the microphone was switched off the horrified listeners heard the clatter of rushing feet and gruffly-given orders as the chase ot the assassin began. Later a Moscow wireless station announced that no trace of the murderer had been found. The bandit of Tiflis. wanted for bank robbery, bad taken Ins revenge on the man who.-was working to track him down, „