“I CAME TO KILL.”
WOMAN’S CONFESSION. MISSION OF REVENGE. KRASIN IN DANGER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Ar _ . , PARIS, Dec. 13. Al. Krassin has presented his credentials as Soviet ambassador to M. Doumergue (the President). A Russian woman, armed with a revolver, who is alleged to have declared her intention of killing Krassin in revenge for the decimation of her family by Bolsheviks, was arrested outside the Russian Embassy. She was sent to. gaol on the charge of the illegal possession of arms.
The woman told the police ,that she came to kill Krassin. “It- is shameful to allow him to . come to Paris,” slie said, “If someone does not kill Krassin he will kill a lot of .others and stir up U - I ' <?vo^u^*on in France similar to Russia’s. I was present during the Russian revolution and saw mothers eat their children. Bolsheviks murdered my brother before mo.” The woman gave her name as Dickson, and said she was a Russian authoress, aged 30 and the wife of an American. ’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 December 1924, Page 5
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