MARSEILLES CRIME
KING'S ASSASSINATION ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE ARREST IN SHANGHAI, SEAMAN BEFORE COURT By Telegraph—Preßs Association—Copyright (Received May 23. 9.15 p.m.) SHANGHAI, May 23 Michael Abramovich, .aged 53, a Yugoslav seaman on board the steamer Calcutta, bound for Japan for breaking up, was formally charged in the Chinese District Court in Shanghai to-day with complicity in the murder of the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseilles. Abramovich originally was arrested and imprisoned on a charge of assault, whereupon other members of the crew gave information to the French Consular authorities, who applied for the man to be handed over for extradition. Accused was remanded.
King Alexander of Yugoslavia and M. Louis Barthou, French Foreign Minister, were shot on October 9, 1934, by a Croat named Petrus Kalemen, as they were driving through the Place de la Bourse, Marseilles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22117, 24 May 1935, Page 11
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