GREEK RED LEADER’S SUICIDE IN PRISON
ATHENS, Feb. 20. The Communist leader, Demetrius Paparigas, was found hanged in his prison cell. He used the tape of his pyjama trousers to hang himself from the window-bars. Paparigas was awaiting trial on charges of being the “moral instigator of crminal actions," including the murder of the Minister of Justice, Mr. Ladas, last May.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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61GREEK RED LEADER’S SUICIDE IN PRISON Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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