SUMMARY JUSTICE
(Press Assn.-
bank robber sentenced and executed within 21 hours
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
BUDAPEST, Monday. Justice in Budapest is summary in the extrem.e. Alexander Ondi, a baker's assistant, was sentenced to death at 4 p.m. for an anned banlc hold-up, and he was hanged in the prison yard at 6.30 p.m. Ondi and a nineteen-year-old aecompliee, donned masks, and brandishing revolvers, rushed a bank in the busiest part of the city. They lined up the terrified employees against a wall and decamped with a packet of notes. Both were quickly arrested and all the money recovered. The lads pleaded that the exploits of cinema 'stars suggested the holdup, but the law was adamant. The accomplice got fifteen years' hard labour. _____
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 October 1931, Page 3
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