HUNGARIAN SCANDALS
TWO SUSPICIOUS DEATHS. REMOVAL OF IMPORTANT WITNESSES. (Pres* Association —By Telegraph —Copyright.) PARIS, April 7. Le Matin states that the machinations of the Hungarian Nationalists to remove the persons involved in the Hungarian rank note case, whose evidence is capable cf damaging them, have been the cause of the death of the Hungarian Deputy Hir According to Le Matin, the Nationalists forced M. Hir to open a vein. He was taken to hospital, and was progressing favourably when he was suddenly seized with violent pains, and died muttering that he was dying as Schultze had died. Schultze (a lithographer who gave himself up in Berlin seme weeks ago) was also involved in the affair, and died mysteriously, but at the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. . Le Matin states that medical investigation established that M. Hir's death was the result of poisoning, and that the Hungarian secret societies had ’ instructed a doctor to get rid cf Jiini.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19759, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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