KING’S ASSASSINATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 302, 19 November 1935, Page 8

KING’S ASSASSINATION

TRIAL OF ACCUSED.

WORLD-WIDE INTEREST

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 19, 1.20 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 18. At the Aix-en-Provence trial the three Yugoslavian associates of Petrus Keleman, charged with complicity in the assassination of King -Alexander and M. Louis Bartliou, are Zronimir Pospicliil, otherwise Novak, a chauffeur, aged 31; Wan Raitch, otherwise Benes, a farmer, aged 32, a former inmate of the Nakapuszta refuge camp; and Mio Kralj, a mechanic, aged 27. Three other accused are imprisoned in foreign gaols. Tlieir extradition to France failed and they will be tried in their absence. Ninety-live journalists wlio will transmit millions of words to all parts of the world by medium of 38 special telephone cabins, almost eclipsing the record transmission attained in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, passed ten barricades before entering the building, from which citizens are excluded, but in order to comply, with the law providing a public hearing 25 unemployed were seated in the Court, to which a heavily armed escort brfouglit the accused persons from the prison by an underground passage, because it had* been rumoured that the Oustacha gang, to which the accused belonged, would attempt a rescue. The- trial is expected to last three weeks.