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King's Photograph As Terrorist's Target
TRIAL IN Clarence
FRANCE
Story Of Blonde's
Revolver Aix-en-provence, Feb. 20.
"CAMP? of terrorists practised revolver shooting with a life-sized portrait of King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia as target.
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STORY OF HIS BREAK
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THE first meeting of creditors
was held this month at London Bankruptcy Buildings, under the failure of Clarence Nathaniel John- stone, entertainer, of Castellain This was an amazing ́allegn- | Mansiona, Malda Vale, N.W. tion made to-day by the judge Mr. S. W. Hood, Offcial Recely- during the trial of the three Croat terrorists charged with complicity, in the murder of King Alexander and of M. Barthou, French Foreign Minister, at; Marseilles.
The judge was questioning Mio Kralj, one of the three accused, who is declared to have stood beside the actual assassin, Kelemen, when the latter fired the shots on October 9, 1934.
Answering the judge, Kralj, a dark haired man with piercing black eyes, said he was a Cront, inged 20.
sented his petition on January 6, er, reported that Johnstone pre- and had been adjudged bankrupt,
he
He stated in preliminary exam- inations that for some years had been working on joint terms with Turner Layton as Layton and Johnstone. That engagement was terminated on November 18 last by his partner notifying through the Press that he proposed to break the partnership.
Since then Johnstone had had no engagement. nor were any con- tencta in existence.
He admitted that after leaving prison he went to the notorious, Ouatachi camp of Junka Puszta. Practically the only liability was Hungary, six miles from the Yugo-16,081 in respect of income and Slav frontier, where about 20 other gradually accumulated,
super tax arrears, which had Croat refugees were living.
And of which, Johnatone alleged, he was not informed at the time.
but
"BOMB-MAKING"
There he met his follow-
prisoners in the dock, Zvonimir Pospichil, aged 31, and Yvan Raitch, a 32-year-old farmer.
"But," said the accused, "the i
No assets were disclosed, something might be forthcoming from royalties.
The case was left in the hands
| camp" was simply an ordinary blx} of the Official Recolver.
farm where Croat refugees like me
could get work."
"A very strange farm Indeed.
and strange work." saft the judge. DAUGHTERS
"You were trained in the manufacture of bombs and in- fernal machines. You did re- volver-shooting practicaly every day on A target, a life-size portrait representing King Alexander, did you not?" asked the Judge.
"This is ridiculous 15," was the man's reply.
Kralj denied that he was aware that King Alexander had been
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Qustach in the camp in September, 1934, and that the names of the "executioners" were drawn.
"PLEASURE TRIP" "Why did you and your com panions come to France a few weeks fefore the crime?" asked the judge.
"It was a pleasure trip," was the reply.
Victoria will still be forbid- den in English theatres..
Although, with the accession of King Edward VIII, three: generations of Royalty have now succeeded her, the Lord Cham- berlain's ruling remains rigid.
The reason, it is understood, He, and that he and Pospichitis that three children of the were ordered by the society to famous Queen are still living-- leave Hungary...---
Argyll), Princess Beatrice, and Princess Louise (Duchess of
the Duke of Connaught..
Three days before the King was murdered, he admitted, they left for the South of France, and Aix-en-Provence they were met by a beautiful blonde woman, who gave them money and revolvers."
"I then." said Kralj, "went to Marseilles, but did not see the King land. The sight of the jubilant crowds grieting the foreign visitors prevented! carrying out orders.”
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