DOCTOR SHOT DOWN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1936, Page 5

DOCTOR SHOT DOWN

MURDER AT HOSPITAL. BUCHAREST, Thursday. Shouting, ‘ ‘ Traitor, you are to die at 8 o’clock,” Storm Troopers belonging to the Iron Guard broke into the surgical ward of a hospital where Dr. Stelescu, a former member of the Chamber of Deputies and founder of the Crusader’s 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. Thirty other Storm Troopers awaiting them in the street cheered when they were told that the so-called execution had been carried out. Eight of them then marched to the police station and surrendered. Dr. Stelescu was originally a prominent member of the Iron Guard, which lie left following the assassination of the Premier, M. Duca, in 1933, and' formed his own Fascist movement, whereupon ho was placed on the Iron Guards’ “death list.” Hitherto lie had been closely guarded by followers, but the precautions lessened when he went to the hospital.