FOUR YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 14 May 1912, Page 5

FOUR YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.

MISS MALECKA'S FATE

CONVICTED ONeCHARGE OF

CONSPIRACY

aY fUBIiB -PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIEIGBt ST. PETERSBURG, May 12.

Miss Malecka (who claimed to be a British subject, her mother being an Englishwoman) has been found guilty at Warsaw, where she was arrested many months ago, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude for conspiring against the Government.

The prosecution asserted that Miss Malecka was associated with Joseph Pilsudzki, the organiser of two bomb attacks on trains carrying Government funds.

A Miss Piekarska gave evidence that Miss Malecka knew Bronislas Pilsudzki, a Polish ethnographer, and not Joseph Pilsudzki. The accused, according to this witness, acted as intermediary in the sale of Bronislas's collection to' the Cambridge University. Miss Malecka's counsel stated that, being an Englishwoman, she did not suspect that she would be prosecuted for mereiy holding Socialist opinions. She went to Poland to sea her father's country ,'i.nd^ to visit Chopin's birthplace. The Chronicle says the Foreign Office must insist on the recognition of the naturalisation papers granted to Miss Malecka's father, and of her passport. Other newspapers state that the Russian Government emphasises the fact that Russians are unable to change thennationality without the consent of the Czar, which Miss Malecka's father did not obtain.