TRAGIC TRAIN WRECK
BLACK "SEA EXPRESS OFFICIAL TO BE EXECUTED MOSCOW, Oct. 30 News of the wreckage cf the Black Sea express on October 16, as a result of which 36 people were killed and 51 injured, was revealed in an announcement of the sentence of death by shooting passed on Bulakov, a stationmaster. He was accused of interfering with the work of Vanteev, a station official on duty, by arbitrarily signalling the line was char while it was occupied by another train. Vanteev was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for allowing Bulakov to interfere and Kasavov, a watchman, to six years. The sentence of death by shooting is described as the highest- form of social defence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 9
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117TRAGIC TRAIN WRECK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 9
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