TWO MEN CHARGED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9

TWO MEN CHARGED

COMPLICITY IN CRIME

TRAINING IN TERRORISM

(Received October 15, 11 a.m.) MARSEILLES, October 14. Ladislas Benes, alias Raich, actually Ivan Rajitch, was charged with complicity in the recent assassination. Jaroslav Novak, alias Pospisel, actually Pospichil, was similarly charged.

Cross-examined all night, Bencs broke down and confessed to being an accessory in the assassination. He gave a list of accomplices and details of the names of the terrorists whose leader lives at Milan. The organisation taught him to use machine-guns. It is also alleged that Benes confessed that lie belonged to Pavelitch's terrorist organisation, and that he attended the Yankapousta camp in Hungary with Ntovak, where, with 30 others, they were taught to become dead shots. Benes says that he was accompanied to France by a mysterious conspirator nick-named "M. le Docteur," who provided the clothes. The police arc now searching for him.

Tho police allege that they havo sufficient evidence to justify the guillotining of both the arrested men.

Further information from tho Zagreb police alleges that Novak, who has oight aliases, with numerous accomplices, including an ex-deputy, Pavelitch, all members of the secret organisation, plotted to kill King Alexander in 1929. They mined railway bridges over which the King would pass with dynamite. Two conspirators were executed and 16 others sentenced to terms aggregating 115 years. Novak escaped and was sentenced to death in absentio. Ho also, with four others associated in tho plot against the King, murdered tho manager of a newspaper.

I Armed guards between Fontainebleau and Courtenay who were searching for i Ohalny signalled a motor-car to stop.' It contained a woman agod about 30 and a man of about 20. Neither was

nble to produce identification papers. The guards mounted the running board and ordered the man to drive to the police station, whereupon the occupants drew revolvers and shot themselves dead. A beautiful girl at Aix-eii-Provcnce is believed to have supplied the Mauser pistol with which King Alexander and M. Barthou wore killed. The police discovered that Kalemen and his companions were in touch with her during their brief stay. She was beautifully dressed and departed six hours before the crime. The police have taken finger prints found in her room. It was later ascertained that the girl conspirator was Marie Voudroch, who probably witnessed the assassination, Kraemer, another alleged accomplice, Who was traced to Avignon, has disappeared. Kalemen's name appears in a list of Croat terrorists believe to be inmates of the Yanltapousta camp on the Hungarian border, a complaint against which Yugoslavia handed the League of Nations on April 26. M._ Barthou was instrumental in persuading tho Hungarian delegate to urge his Government to open an inquiry into tho camp which Yugoslavians declared was receiving official Hungarian support. When the League discussed the camp the Hungarian delegate complained that there had been shooting across the frontier. Tho Yugoslavian representative retorted: If we firedit was because just across the frontier is a, bandits' lair.