IRON GUARD MURDER
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright
EIGHT MEN SENT TO PRISON. RUMANIAN OUTRAGE RECALLED.
Bucharest, April 27. Eight members of the Iron Guard were sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Dr. Stelescu on July 16, 1936. Two others were sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years. With shouts of, "Traitor, you are to die at 8 o'ciock," Storm Troopers belonging to the Iron Guard broke into the surgical ward of a hospital whare Dr. Stelescu, a former member of the Cham- , ber of Deputies and founder of the Crusaders' League, had just performed an operation for appendicitis. Some of them riddled him with 28 revolver bullets, and the others kept off the staff at the point of the revolver. Dr. Stelescu was originally a prominent member of the Iron Guard, which he left following the assassination of the Prime Minister, M. Toca, in 1933, and formed his own Fascist movement, whereupon he was placed on the Iron Guards' "death list." Hitherto he had been closely guarded by followers, but the precautions lessened when he went to the hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1937, Page 7
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