EXTRADITION SOUGHT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 7

EXTRADITION SOUGHT

DR. BOUGRAT FROM VENT

ZUELA. RUMORED TO BE IN PRACTICE. United Presa Asm by El. Tel. Conyrlabi lAustralian Press Association.) PARIS, Oct. ,-J. Venezuela as been asked to extradite Dr, Bougrat. Some newspapers state that he lias resumed medical practice at Caracas. Dr. Bougrat. was sentenced to imprisonment for lit > .on n charge of leaving dread penal {settlement- at Devil’s Island on September G last. Two other prisoners who yore- also serving life sentences gained their liberty with Inin. Dr. Bougrat was tried -at -Marseilles in March, 1927. Ho was charged with the murder of a patient named Jacques Rumcbe. a comrade of the war, whose body was Found in a cupboard hi-the accused’.* surgery. It was also alleged that Bougrat had drugged women patients and then robbed' them. Convicted criminals,' including thieves and a man who had . murdered liis wife, whom Bougrat had met during- his imprisonment, said he had suborned the to prepare alibis. One. of them alleged that Bougari confessed that lie murdered Rumebe by pressing a handkerchief soaked in poison on to ,1-iis face. On the -last day of the trial, March 30, counsel for . the defence made an impassioned appeal for pity, because-the prisoner’s father" was/ dvififr. However, accused was found'guilty under extenuating circumstances, and was.-sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor, tor life. The. verdict apparently meant that the jury wprq in doubt whether Kemcbc was killed purposely ok merely through an overdose, oi some drug.' On October 28, it: was cabled from Venezuela that- Dr Bougrat had been arrested there.