DEATH FOR ASSASSINS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1924, Page 7

DEATH FOR ASSASSINS.

HUNGARIAN CONSPIRACY. BOMBS THROWN IN CLUB. GAOL FOR ACCOMPLICES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 15, 5.5 p.m. Budapest, Dec. 14. Sentences of death were passed on Marffy, secretary to th e Magyar organisation of extreme Nationalists, and on his chief accomplice, who, with others, were charged with throwing bombs during ■ the Jewish festivities. The prolonged trials caused great disorders. The other conspirators were each sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. The prisoners placed a bomb in the Democratic Club in August of last year with fatal results, while others were wounded. They also placed bombs in the High Court and in the French Legation. The prisoners were clerks, their ages ranging from eighteen to thirty, who were members of the Union of Awaking Magyars. They committed a bomb outrage in the club, in which eight persons were killed and thirty-three wounded. They also placed infernal machines in other places, claiming that they were supporting the Government against its Communist enemies, evidently believing the Government would be afraid to prosecute them. During the trial friends of the accused men sent numerous threatening letters, to the judges and others, but the court refused to be terrorised.