WITNESS' SUICIDE
SOVIET MASS TRIAL . ' . MOSCOW, Feb. 9. There was : a dramatic start to the spectacular.trial of, 39 ex-nobles, Tsarist officers, and merchants accused of engaging in capitalist industry. .:'■' The one woman defendant, Vera Petrova, calmly announced that her brother, called as a witness against her, was unable to appear because he committed suicide last night rather than give evidence. The woman, who is 35, is, accused of organising a pseudo-co-operative manufacturing cartel and making a huge profit. She is stated to have corrupted tax collectors by drunken revels.
The others are accused of operating privately owned factories and defrauding the State of £60,000 in income-tax. Three at least face death sentences and all. long terms of imprisonment. Three pleaded not guilty, one guilty and thjes, rest guilty on. some counts. Thpy are. being tried before two worker judges and one professional jurist.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 16
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