SOVIET DEATH SENTENCES
SIX TRANSPORT WORKERS BUS SYSTEM SABOTAGED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, February 11. (Received February 12, at 1.30 p.m.) Death sentences to-day include six transport workers for sabotaging the Leningrad trolley bus system, causing a bus to fall into the river, drowning a number of passengers; also five Crimeans, including two women, one of whom was Commissar for Social Security, and the other, Alexandra Zumbilova, charged with the embezzlement of 600,000 roubles for the support of | her husband. Her ex-husband, his wife, and eight other accomplices were sentenced to from one to eight years’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 20
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