AMAZING CAREER
RUSSIAN ADVENTURER. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. (By Telegraph—Press -Assn—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, January 26. (Received January 27, 11.5 p.m.). A Russian adventurer named Mestchersky was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and 10 years local banishment for threatening two Turkish diamond merchants with a revolver and obtaining from them 300,000 francs for a packet supposed to contain diamonds. Mestchersky had a remarkable career. He fought in the Russo-Japanese war and later joined a gang of criminals. He was sentenced to 20 years, but escaped from prison, and joined a gang of Bulgarian bandits and made sufficient from ransoms to buy a farm in South America. He returned to France on the outbreak of war and won the Croix de Guerre and the British Military Medal. Mestchersky is very handsome.
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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 7
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