Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-10-20 | Page 20 | Assassin Held Soviet Worker

A ASSASSIN SASSIN HELD flU SOVIET l' l Oct 20 AP Samuel AP-Samuel Samuel who assassinated General Simon Ukrainian separatist leader last year today was pictured as a a. soviet assassin instead of ol a heroic avenger of the sufferings of the Jewish race in ina ina a long deposition presented iri in court by the prosecution and signed by bya a former soviet commissar t I In presenting the deposition the time prosecution played what is regarded regard d nth as aits Its trump card since throughout the the defense has contended that murdered l Pet et t lura Iura because of df C the sufferings lie he had seen his race undergo In the Ukraine when was was in power there iThe i- i The rhe deposition is a a detailed U. U accusation accusation accusation ac ac- by M. M 1 Dobkovsky sly soviet commissar for Jewish affaIrs at Moscow l in MIS 1918 who is said eaid to have havo fallen out with the communists and andis is s. s now in exile fighting Ung his ls Io to n associates it is alleged in the d deposition position was an n important morn mem- her ber of oC a secret committee organized or- or s- s in Paris by the Soviets lo to till kill in order to rc v any any possibility of his return to power ver In n the Ukraine The rhe defendant Is Described as having had a long Shifting political record presentation presenta presenta- tion of oC this evidence coming through the family attorney of Pet Pet- lura IurA who appears to be replacing the state as chief prosecutor This evidence attempts to to turn the crime Into a a. dark darl mysterious political assassination instead of or a a. self-sacrificing self vengeance in the name of oC a a martyred people