BULGARIAN ASSASSIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 5

BULGARIAN ASSASSIN

STORY OF £4O BRIBE NAMES NOT DISCLOSED (Reed. Oct. 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. Further details have been reported concerning the assassination in Sofia of Major General Peef, the Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army, and Major Stoyanoff, an aide-de-camp, who were shot in the street outside the Ministry of Justice in the middle of the afternoon yesterday. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that the assailant was named Kirofr and not Vlasseff as at first reported, and it is now disclosed that his attempt to commit suicide following the attack was not immediately successful as was at first thought. Kiro'l. who is an ex-policeman, is suffering from a severe self-inflicted held wound -

*le is i.lleged to have confessed that he received £4O to commit the crime. H: received orders from two men speaking the Macedonian dialect, but he refused to name them. The authorities are doing their utmost to save Kiroff, but it is feared that his condition is hopeless.