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Show SENTENCED TO DEATH ' Murderer of Premier Petkoff Condemned Con-demned by Oourt-Martial. SOFIA. Bulgaria. July 1. A court-martial court-martial this morning sentenced Pctroff. the murderer of Premir Petkoff, to death. Ills two accomplices were condemned con-demned respectively to llfo Imprisonment and fifteen years penal servitude. The Premier was assassinated at Sofia So-fia March 11, while walking In Bora's garden with other Ministers. The assassin as-sassin fired three bullets into the Premier's Pre-mier's body, and he died Instantly. The murderer vas a dismissed employee of tho Agricultural bank, but the crime Is known to have been due to a political Pol. Tho deceased Premier was the leader of the Slambuloff party, and when ex-Premier ex-Premier Stambuloff was murdered at Sofia So-fia In 1S05 he was accompanied by M. Potkoff. who was then a newspaper man nnd a close friend of Stambuloff. M. S'.nmbuloff met his death shortly after hovlng been dismissed from tho premler-sl premler-sl lp by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria as the result of differences over matters of etiquette. |