VOROWSKY'S ASSASSIN.
SCHOOL FRIEND'S STORY.
AN ACT OF VENGEANCE
"Maurice Conradi, the Swiss student who is accused of the assassination of the Soviet delegate Vorowsky at Lausanne, has a friend in Sydney who knew him at school. To a Sydney newspaper representative this friend stated last week that since the Bolshevik revolution in Russia Conradi has suffered great privation as the result of the death of his relatives and the confiscation of his property. "I would like the people to" know that hi is not a murderer or assassin of the usual type, nor is he paid by any society " he said. "If he killed Vorowsky he did it because of the suffering that he has had, and because he no longer had anything to look forward to. •' He was well educated, having attended the university at Petro"rad after leaving school. He was severely wounded at the war. and was afterward'? interned " Lately he has had a hard struggle to keep his wife and mother and sister" who are in a very bad situation. He ha" suffered just as all the Swiss suffered who were in Russia." . Conradi, his friend says, was well known in Russia as a sportsman, excelling in i M hockey, tennis, football and yachting
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18411, 29 May 1923, Page 8
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208VOROWSKY'S ASSASSIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18411, 29 May 1923, Page 8
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