AN AMAZING TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 11

AN AMAZING TRIAL.

CONRADI'S ACT APPROVED.

SWISS AND BOLSHEVIKS.

FUNDS OFFERED FOR KILLING

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright

(Received 6.15 p.m.)

A. and N.Z.

LAUSANNE. Nor. 8.

Amazing scenes continue in connection with the trial of Conradi for the murder of Vorowsky, .a Russian Soviet delegate. The trial sometimes gives the impression that it is not Conradi, but the various Russian regimes that aro under judgment. Tho four counsel defending, Russian interests appear daily in evening clothes, but the counsel defending Conradi wear frock-coats. The former today solidly demanded the impeachment of the witness, Crosier, a wealthy Swiss, who caused a sensation by declaring that if Conradi had asked him for money before killing Vorowsky he would have given ft as he approved Conradi's act. Moreover, he would furnish funds to anyono who would undertake to kill a Bolshevik.

The Russian counsel contended that the evidence amounted to an apologia for crime, and was punishable according to tho Swiss Federal penal code. The demand was referred to the Federal authorities.

Dr. Lodzijensky gavo -vivid pictures ot the horrors of the massacres by the Cheka (secret police), at Kief of men, women, and children. The bloodstained rooms of the Cheka building and courtyard were full of dead bodies. He described the forma of torture employed by the Bolsheviks. Tho executions were generally at night, a woman being among th* executioners.

Tha Russian lawyer, Tchelenoff, said the Cheka had been abolished. The opposing counsel promptly affirmed that it had been replaced by an organisation known as the Cpu, which was.equally bad.

Conradi's mother gave an account of her sufferings, the murder of her husband, and the seizure of her property.