SENTENCED TO DEATH.
RUSSIAN WOMAN’S OFFENCE. Received August 28. 1.25 p.m. MOSCOW, Aug. 27. A woman railway bottle-washer named Vedenskaya has been sentenced to death on the charge of putting sulphuric acid into water bottles. lhe poison was discovered before anybody was injured. An assistant bottlewasher lias been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. , , _ T . The Secret Police state that Vedenskaya was once married to a Polish noble and had remained in touch with her husband’s country. Thirty-two railwnymen described ns Trotsky terrorists have been executed at Irkutsk on charges of sabotaging the railways and gathering military information for Japan; also with plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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106SENTENCED TO DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 10
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