SHOT ON THE BORDER
CONTEST FOR A CORPSE. DEATH IN TWO COUNTRIES. A Polish merchant, Pinkus Gewel, was trying to slip across the frontier from Russia into Poland in August when he was shot by Soviet customs men. He fell dead across the frontier line, with the upper half of his body in Polish territory and the lower half in Russia. Gewel’s widow claimed the body declaring that her husband had hidden £3OO in banknotes in' his boots. The Soviet Commission refused to hand over the body and confiscated the money on the ground that even if the dead man’s head w’as in Poland his feet were in Russia.
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Southland Times, Issue 20613, 11 October 1928, Page 10
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109SHOT ON THE BORDER Southland Times, Issue 20613, 11 October 1928, Page 10
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