Trotsky’s Son Arrested
TRAIN WRECKS CONFESSED BY ACCUSED. MOSCOW; Jan. 27. Sergi Sedov, the younger son of Leo Trotsky, is reported to have been arrested on a charge of attempting to poison fellow-workers in the Krasnoyarsk machine factory by neglecting to provide an outlet for fumes from generators. A nephew of Zinoviev named Zak, employed at the same factory, is also reported to have been arrested. Both men were denounced at a mass meeting of factory workers. The first witness at the fifth day of the trial was Kynazev, who said that 1500 train-wrecking attempts had occurred on the South Ural railways in 1934 and 2000 in 1935, at the instigation of Japan. Turek declared that ho had perpetrated 40 major train wrecks in the last three years. The authorities said they were accidents, the responsibility for which was often shifted on to innocent persons, some of whom were arrested and shot. Ivan Grasche in evidence said he came to Russia in 1920 as a professional &py paid by tho Czechoslovakian intelligence service and was transferred to the German intelligence service in 1932. Tho evidenco has concluded and the case adjourned till January 28, when M. Vishinsky will sum un
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 24, 29 January 1937, Page 8
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