VOROWSKI’S MURDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1923, Page 5

VOROWSKI’S MURDER

EVIDENCE AT TRIAL. RED HORRORS RECALLED. (Australian ai«l N.Z. Cable Association) LAUSANNE, November 8. Amazing scenes continue at th e trial of Conradi for Vorowsky’s murder, which sometimes gives the impression that it is not Conradi, but the various Russian regimes, that are under judgment. Four of the counsel are defending the Russians’ interests, and they appear daily in evening clothes. The counsel defending Conradi wear frock coats. The former to-day solidly demanded the impeachment of the. witness Crosier, a wealthy Swiss, who caused a sensation by declaring that if Conradi had asked him for money before killing Vorowsky, he would have given it, as he approved of Conradi’s act- Moreover he would furnish funds to anyone who would undertake to kill a Bolshevik. The Russian counsel contended that this evidence amounted to an apologia for crime, and was punishable according to' the Swiss Federal penal code. The demand was referred to the Federal authorities. Doctor Lodgijensky gave vivid pictures of 'the horrors of the Cheka at Kieff, the massacres of men, and women and children in cold blood, the stained rooms of the Cheka building, and of the courtyard full of dead bodies. He described the forms of torture employed by the Bolshevik!. The executions were generally at night. Women were among the executioners. A Russian lawyer, Tchelenoff, said that the Cheka had been abolished. The opposing counsel promptly affirmed that it lias been replaced by an organisation known as “C.P.U.,” which is equally as bad. Conradi’s mother gave an account of her sufferings, the murder of her husband and the seizure of their' property.