THE CONRADI TRIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19015, 10 November 1923, Page 10

THE CONRADI TRIAL

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. SIDELIGHTS ON SOVIET METHODS. LAUSANNE, November 8. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Received Nov. 9, at 8 p.ifi.) Amazing scenes continue at the Conradi trial, which sometimes give the impression that it is not Conradi, but the various Russian regimes which are under judgment. The four counsel who are defending the Russians’ interests appear daily in evening clothes, and the counsel defending Conradi wear frock coats. The former to-day 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 be would have given it to him as he approved of'Cdnrndi’s act. Moreover, no would furnish funds, to anyone who would undertake to kill a Bolshevist Russian. Counsel contended that this evidence amounted to an apologia for the crime, and was punishable according to the Swiss Federal Penal Code. The demand was referred to the Federal authorities. Dr Lodzijensky gave vivid pictures of the horrors of the Cheka at Kiefi and the massacres of men, women, and children in blood-stained rooms of the Cheka buildings. The courtyard was full of dead bodies. He described the forms of torture employed by the Bolshevists. The executions were generally at night, and a woman was among the executioners. The Russian lawyer Tcbelenoff said that the Cheka had been abolished. The opposing counsel promptly affirmed that it had been replaced by an organisation known as C.P.U., which was equally bad. Conradi’s mother gave an account of her sufferings, the murder of her husband, and the seizure of her property.— A. and N.Z. Cable.