M. DOUMER’S ASSASSINATION
TRIAL OF PAUL GORGOULOFF. DOCTORS DISAGREE ON SANITY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, July 26. M. Peitri, ex-Minister of Defence, describing Gorgouloff’s assassination of M. Doumer, the French President, disclosed, that Gorgouloff fired the second shot while being held, and. a long time after the first shot. Lazaroff, an ex-Cossack, said, that Gorgouloff represented that he was a chief of the Cheka (Soviet Secret, police! and. tortured 19 persons, including the witness. He describes how his hands were tied behind his back and redhot needles were placed in his fingers. A match" put under the finger-nails was set alight. At this stage Gorgouloff sprang ug and denounced Lararoff as a liar. ' Three doctors declared that they did not believe Gorgouloff was insane. He denied that they had examined him, except in the manner of the gendarmes. A fourth doctor expressed the opin« ion that Gorgouloff was mentally un* stable.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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