EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA
RAILWAY MEN PUT TO DEATH CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Aug. 28, 3 p.m.) MOSCOW, Aug. 27 A woman railway bottle-washer named Vendeskaya was sentenced to death on a charge of putting sulphuric acid into wate'r bottles. The poison was discovered before anybody was injured. An assistant bottle-washer was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. The secret police state' that Vedenskaya was once married to a Polish noble and remained in touch with her husband’s country. Thirty-two railwaymen, described as Trotsky terrorists, were executed at Irutsk on charges of sabotaging the railways and gathering military information for Japan, also plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders^
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 8
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111EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 8
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