RED AND WHITE REIGNS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9576, 30 July 1923, Page 3

RED AND WHITE REIGNS.

BOLSHEVIK AGENT’S TRAGIC FATE. BURIAL REFUSED FIVE TIMES. A gruesome story of the days when Hungary was the scene of successive Rod and White reigns of terror is revealed in a case now before the Budapest courts. Among those who, in 1919. held brie; authority under the Bolshevik reign of Bela Kuhn was a certain Tibor Szamueli. His character and deeds weie sued' that they inspired tear and disgusteven among Ms own followers, and he was known far and wide as “The Bloodhound.” MURDER- AND BLACKMAIL. One day he tool his gang of robbers and murderers into a village uot tar from the capital. In his role of “People’s Commissar” he ordered the arrest of several of the most prominent “bourgeoise” of the district., who. alter a mock trial, were hanged on trees.

His real purpose was to levy blackmail. ITrVr the pretext of raising a levy on behalf <>l the new Soviet State, he demanded a. million kronen from the communal funds. Threatened with immediate death unless they obeyed, the local authorities raised and handed over this amount. A few weeks later, when Bolshevism was overthrown, Tibor SzamuoL tied from Budapest. Except to a small number of men who were concerned in it. his fate was shrouded in mystery until recently. Then it was discovered that his brother, who also skareo; in the Bolshevik Administration and was subsequently arrested and executed, had left a considerable propel ty. Its origin, as was quickly proved, was the million kronen which Tibor Szamueli had extorted from the villagers. A legal claim by the community for the restoration of this amount from his bmthoibs estate has brought to (laylight, the story of the latter’s death. ric tied from Budapest in a powerful motor-car. loaded with valuables, and 'made lor the Ironticr with the ide.: m reekin'.’,' immunity on Austrian .erritory. lie was held.' up on the borders, and his captors soon established Lis identity. Thereupon he drew a revolver from his pocket and shot himself. _

COKI'SE REFUSED BURIAL. To his suicide there was a gruesome seouel. Wanting to wash their hands of the whole business, the Austrian frontier guards took the body to.the narrowest part of the siroJm and threw it across to the other bank. There it was found by the Hungarian frontier post. When ti.ev learned that the body was that or “The Bloodhound” they refused in allow if to (soil Hungarian territory. Following the example of the Austrians they, in their turn, flung it across the stream into' the other country. This fearsome process was repeated, Lem alternate banks, five times. Only when an officer arrived and undertook responsibility was the corpse allowed to rest on Hungarian territory, and finally buried in the neighborhood of Sancrbrunn.