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Show SCHINAS NOT IN POLITICS (x r e e k Newspaper Publishes Letter Regarding Re-garding fxing George's Assassin New York, March 21. The Greek I newspaper Atlantis will publish today a letter from a Greek In this city, which the editors of the paper say Contains reliable Information con-j cernlng Aleco Bchlnaa, the assassin of ' King George. The letter is written by Rasll Batz-1 noulis, who claims personal acquaintance acquaint-ance with Schinas and who says the; man was an anarchist but never entered en-tered politic! and was not a candidate for election lo the boule. or Greek chamber of deputies. ;t reported "Aleco Schinas comes from the village vil-lage of Kanalla.' Ihe statement reads. "He has a brother In Volo named Hercules Schinas, who has a chemist's chem-ist's shop there The assassin work- j ed as an assistant As It often happens hap-pens with brotbers, they had a quar- ' rel and Aleco camo to America Here! he could not stand the heavy work and returned to Greece. The statement that he was the founder of a school of anarchism or; was a candidate for the boule Is entirely en-tirely untrue, because he was en-tlrely en-tlrely reticent and all he did was to go from the chemist's shop to a cof-' fee house and back. He had no friends j in Volo I was George Schinas who was a candidate for the boule. "Aleco Schinas had nothing to do j with any school and had no Idea of entering politics. He was known as a man who loved isolation and his! backgammon. He wore a beard and) was an anarchist. He was more than : ". y old, -.fmri in stal ure and slightly humpbacked" Solon S. J Vlasto. editor of Atlan-I tls. said the many conflicting sto-j ries that had arisen in this country concerning the assassin's identity a-rose a-rose from the fact that Schinas is I a common surname in Greece and it is quite likely that there is more than one Aleco Schinas. "Information that I have received from other Greeks who have lived In Yolo and from our cable dispatches lead me to believe that the information informa-tion given by Batznoulia is correct,"; I aid Mr. Ylnsto. |