MURDER OF VOROWSKI

Southland Times, Issue 19100, 19 November 1923, Page 5

MURDER OF VOROWSKI

ACCUSED ACQUITTED. VERDICT RECEIVED WITH CHEERS. A CONDEMNATION FOR BOTH SIDES. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 17. (Received November 18, 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph's Lausanne correspondent says the final scenes at the Conradi trial were most impressive, the jury by five votes to four acquitting accused. The President, in announcing the acquittal, ordered Conradi and Polinnine to jointly pay the costs of the trial, and also the confiscation of the weapon with which. Vorowgky was shot. The public loudly cheered, while Conradi’s mother and wife, who w’ere overcome by emotion, burst into tears. The cheers were taken up by crowds outside the court. The acquittal can be said to have given general satisfaction to the majority of the citizens of Lausanne, though many consider some punishment, however slight should have been inflicted. Judging, however, from the way the jury’s votes were cast it is felt the trial has established the moral condemnation of prisoners while Bolshevism also has been condemned.