MURDER TRIAL
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A RUSSIAN TBAGEOY
TESTING A.. PRISONER'S WRITIMG.
(Received Last Night, 9.1".:; o'clock.) ST. February 7. At the trial or Lr 1-i.tchenko and de Lassy on the charge of murdering Count Bouturlin in May last, de Lassy's typewriter was produced i!n Court. The President of the' Court dictated a letter. ' De Lassy took several minutes in typing two j.incs, and then broke ;down. Experts disagreed over the identification of tlie typewriter with de Lassy's' letter. The President dictated a letter which de Lassy wrote by hand, to test his French spelling. De Lassy repeated one of the. principal errors contained in the letter. ; '■ : Numerous witnesses gave evidence as (to de Lassy's complete moral and financial untrustworthiness. It is alleged that he arranged a conference at a hotel, at which several bogus Russian Ministers and high financiers were present, and rbhat, in consequence of the representations made at the meeting, a Polish millionaire advanced de Lassy £7OOO.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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164MURDER TRIAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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