INTENTION TO KILL KRASSIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 December 1924, Page 2

INTENTION TO KILL KRASSIN

THE PARIS EMBASSY INCIDENT (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) and N.Z. Cable Association) PARIS; Dec. 26. , Mrs Marie Dickson, the Russian widow mi the American who was arrested a fortnight ago when she waited with a revolver in her hand at the Russian Embassy to kill Ivrassin, was to-day sentenced by (lie Correctional Court to three weeks’ imprisonment for carrying a weapon. She will, upon release, be deported fioiir France. The Communist Attorney Rent lion, representing the Embassy, told the court that she was also the widow cf the notorious Russian agent' Provocateur Azcff, whom syndicalists assassinated as a traitor. Tho Court took cognisance of this, but refused to permit. Benthon to enter a complaint, explaining that the woman was being tried only for carrying ttfo 'weapon. • ■Mrs .Dickson’s counsel. Mnitre Zarcon, painted a tragic picture of the horror of the revolution and the suffering Russian masses under the Soviet regime at which the prisoner interjected, “I wanted to save France from this same terror.” ’ The court; in pronouncing sentence, '■aid that even were Krassin responsible for all the suffering of the revolution it would not give the prisoner the right- to attempt to kill him in French territory.