"A MAN FROM MARS”
.l‘OLAli DICTATOR ON TRIAL * reign of terror <li.l J .A. by Elec. Tel. right) MOSCOW. May 30. I). D. Simeticliuk, 1 lie director ut | lilO polar station at Wrangell island, J who is on trial on charges ol having j created a dictatorship and having ill- ! treated the scientific statf and the h>- | cal population, claims to he ‘‘a man I from .Mars.” j j Ho states that the natives regarded j him as a man Com another world, but | psychiatrists have declared that ho is j feigning insanity to escape punish- , incut. I Sensational evidence disclosed that I Simenehuk enforced a reign of terror. • R was alleged (hat lie committed af j least two murders and caused another j person to commit suicide and that ho j j starved the natives and closed coni' j implication with the outside world.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12867, 22 May 1936, Page 3
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