CONRADI TRIAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 19 November 1923, Page 5

CONRADI TRIAL.

ACCUSED ACQUITTED

SATISFACTION WITH VERDICT,

hi CABI^-vkeSS ASSOCIATION-COPTEIGHT

Th» ♦*• , v L°NDON, Nov. 17. Ihe trial has concluded at Lausanne I Pol^ nnise and Conradi, who were charged with the assassination of Vorowski a Russian Soviet delegate, who was shot when attending the Ne£ East Conference at Lausanne. The^ jury voted five to four in favour of the HS^i.* h<? h the a<*used, who were discharged. at tLT rP aph the final scenes dt t-Ae trial were most impressive The president^ m announcing the acquittal, ordered Conradi and Pofinnise to jointl ly pay the costs of the trial and confiscation of the weapon with which Vorowski was shot. The public loudly cheered, while Conradi's mother and wL- W?? °7« rcome m with emotion and burst into tears. The cheers were taken up by crowds outside the court ±*c acquittal may be said to have given general satisfaction to the majority of the citizens of Lausanne, tnough many consider some punishment, however slight, should have I been inflicted. Judging, however, from the way the jury's votes were cast, it is felt the trial has established the moral condition of the prisoners, while .Bolshevism has also been condemned.