BULGARIA: The Cost

The court martial sitting at Sofia to try persons accused of complicity in the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27, et seq.), sentenced eight men to death:

Marco Friedmann, lawyer, Communist. He knew of, but said he was not connected with, the persons who hatched the bomb plot. Sentence: Public execution.

Georgi Koeff, for harboring Captain Ninkoff (engineer of the outrage, killed while resisting arrest). Public execution.

Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral. Prison execution.

Five others -Petrini, Kossofsky, Grancharoff, Abadjieff, Dimitroff-who are all...

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