EXILED PRINCE LURED BACK TO RUSSIA AND SHOT.

Shannon News, 26 April 1927, Page 2

EXILED PRINCE LURED BACK TO RUSSIA AND SHOT.

~ PARIS, March 4. The Cheka continues its relentless career and one more Russian: aristocrats has been condemned arid executed without trial. 1 t With eighteen men condemned to capital punishment, the Bussian Prince Dolgorukovo was marched on Suuday night into the basement of the Lublanka, where a single revolver shot in the back of the head killed him. The “Verchernya Moskua” tells how the Prince twice attempted to enter Bussia to visit his estates in the Kursk district, where liis family hid a store of treasure. In November last Prince Dolgorukovo mot in Paris a Bussian who claimed to have a pull with the Soviet Legation. He offered to obtain ’a false paspport to enter Bussia and to accompany the Prince to show that he intended no treachery. Crossing the Polish-Soviet frontier, the pair finally reached the Kursk dis; trict, where.the Prince found the family treasure untouched and divided it with his guide, A few hours later he was arrested, the guide turning out to be a trusted Cheka agent sent from Moscow to lure the Prince iqto Bussia. A public trial for the Prince, who is a • well-known leader of the Whites abroad, was refused, because the Soviet People’s Commissars were unwilling.to expose the secret service methods of watching the. Prince in Pafis.