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ALLEGED SABOTAGE MOSCOW, August 27 A woman railway bottle washer named Vedenskaya, was sentenced to death on a charge of putting sulphuric acid in water bottles. The poison was discovered before anybody was injured. An assistant bottle washer was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. Tho secret police state that Vedenskaya once married a Polish nobleman and remained in touch with her husband's country. Thirty-two raihvaymen, described as "Trotsky terrorists," wero executed at Irkutsk on charges of sabotaging railways, gathering military information for Japan and plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22820, 30 August 1937, Page 10
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