EXECUTED FOR THEFT
SOVIET TRIAL ENDS (Bee. 10.10 a.m.) MOSCOW. October 18. For stealing 42,000 yards of cloth from the Government, P. Panga, the vice-chairman and I. JVI. Matveev, the commercial director of the Moscow Regional Sewing and Fabric Repair Union, have been executed, states the newspaper ‘ Trud.’ Thirty others have received sentences ranging to 10 years. The trial lasted 18 days, during which 260 witnesses were heard.
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Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7
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68EXECUTED FOR THEFT Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7
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