SENT TO PRISON

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12023, 29 December 1924, Page 7

SENT TO PRISON

WUULR-IE MURDERESS / DORRECTIONAL COURT IMPOSES PUNISHMENT. THEATRICAL TRIAL. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 28, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, December 26. Mrs Marie Dickson, the Russian, tridow of an American, who was sirtested a fortnight ago when she waited at the Russian Embassy with a revolver in her hand to kiuKrassin, was sentenced by a correctional court today to three weeks’ imprisonment for carrying a weapon. Upon release the woman Will be deported from France. The Communist attorney, Berthon, representing the Embassy, . told the court that Mis Dickson also was the widow of a notorious Russian agent and provocateur, Azeff, whom the syndicalists assassinated as a traitor, -the court took cognisance of this, but refused to permit Berthon to enter a complaint, explaining that the woman Was being tried only for carrying a weapon. Mrs Dickson’s, counsel, Maitro Oarcon, painted a tragic picture of the horrors of the revolution and the suffering of the Russian masses under the Soviet regime, at which the prisoner interjected: “I wanted to save France from this same terror.” The court ,in pronouncing sentence, ■aid that even were Kxassin .responsible for all the suffering of the revolution it would not give the prisoner the right to attempt to kill him in French territory.