WAR AND CRIME.
9 —. ADVENTURER’S CAREER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT PARIS, Jan. 26. A Russian adventurer named Mestcherskv was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and 10 years’ local banishment for threatening two Turkish diamond merchants with a revolver, and obtaining from them 300,000 francs for a packet supposed to contain diamonds. Mestchersky has had a remarkable career. He fought in the Russo-Japan-ese war. Later he joined a gang of criminals, and was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. He escaped from prison, joined a gang of Bulgarian bandits, and made sufficient from ransoms to buy a farm in South America. He returned to France at the outbreak of the war, and won the Croix de Guerre and the British Military Medal. Mestchersky is strikingly handsome.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 January 1925, Page 5
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