MURDERS IN SOFIA
CHIEF OF STAFF & AIDE SHOT DEAD ASSASSIN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. MAN RECENTLY RELEASED FROM PRISON. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 10. The Sofia correspondent of the British United Press says Major-General Peeff, Chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army, was assassinated in the street outside the Ministry of Justice in the middle of the afternoon. Major Stoyanoff, an aide-de-camp, was also killed. The assailant followed the officers for some time and emptied a revolver into them. He then produced a second revolver and committed suicide. He was recently released, after serving a murder sentence and was named Vlasseff. He was a native of Stanimaka, Major-General Peeff’s birthplace.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 5
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