CONRADI’S TRIAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1923, Page 2

CONRADI’S TRIAL.

IUBTIIAI.IAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, Nov. 8. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Lausanne correspondent says:—The trial ol Conratli for the murder of Vorowski was conitnued. Aliss Ooiiradi. cousin of the prisoner, deserihed how their father was taken from his bed at midnight, by Rolshoviki. and was afterwards shot. All their belongings were taken away. She gave a vivid picture ol lile in IVirngrad. with its forced labour and the reduction of the population by twothirds, owing to the general distress. Aliss Cnnradi, at the close other evidence. went to the dock and embraced the prisoner. , LAPS ANNE, Nov. 7. Amazing scenes continue at the trial of Conradi for Anninsky's murder, which sometimes gives the impression 1 hat it is not. Conradi. but the various Russian regimes, that are under judgment. four ol the counsel are defending the Russians' interests, and they appear daily in evening clothes. Iho counsel defending Conradi wear frock coats. The former to-day solidly demanded the impeachment of the witness Crosier, a wealthy Swiss. who caused a sensation by declaring that if Conradi bad asked him lor money before killing Vorowsky, he would have given it. as he approved of Conradi s net. Alorcover he would furnish funds to anyone who would umlertawe to kid a Bolshevik. , , . . The Hessian Counsel contended this evidence amounted to an apologia for crime, and was punishable according to the Swiss Federal penal code. Ihe demand was referred to the Federal au-

thorities. .. . Doctor Lodgojensky gave vivid pictures id tlu* horrors oi the ( heka at TviefV, the massacres of men. and women and children, the blood stained rooms of the* Cheka building, and of the courtyard full of dead bodies. He described the forms of torture employed by the Bolsheviks. The executions were generally at night. Women were among the executioners. A Russian lawyer. Teheleimll. said the Cheka had been abolished. Tbe opposing counsel promptly afiii Hied that it has been by an organisation known as "C.R.I . "hieh is equally as had. Conradi’s mother gave an account ol her sufferings, tlu* murder of her busband and the seizure of their property.