CONFESSION MADE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1933, Page 7

CONFESSION MADE

ANARCHIST'S DO Ail! EPISODE

SUICIDE COMMITTED IN CELT/

LONDON', February 11. A notorious anarchist named Con-

jiitinoll', who was imprisoned at Lux-

embourg awaiting trial for the murder of a nriei-l mimed Koch, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.

().i the wall oi tne cell he had written the inscription : “IVc placed the bomb in the Kra.d Cathedral. - ’

The authorities communicated with the .Bulgarian police, who have lao.v established the fact that Gonstaiitinoff was the atiiv.vhi.< .rn ins ijini’-ly rasponsilde for the bomb outrage (ominittcu in the Krahl Cathedral, at Sofia, ru April 16, 1926, which caused the death of 150 persons. The funeral of the Bulgarian deputy, Georgjeff, who had Leon murdered two days before by Communists, was to have taken place at the cathedral, and the service was to have been attended by King Boris. The infernal machine, of enormous power, exploded, however, before the King’s arrival, but when the cathedral was already crowded, and brought about the collapse of the dome and a great part of the west wall. The Archbishop of Sofia, the Mayor, and a number of generals and politicians were among the dofub A state of martial law was immediately proclaimed, and a large number of Oonstar.tinoif’s accomplices were arrested. At the trial several were sentenced to death.