Word: assassinate
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...fall I knew he had received five bullets. Then I emptied my revolver. The crowd had scattered. A policeman came up quietly and said: 'Is that enough?' I answered: 'Yes.' He said: 'Then give me your revolver.' I gave him the revolver, saying: 'I have killed a great assassin...
Four months ago (TIME, June 20) Soviet Minister Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov was felled in a Warsaw railway station by the foul hand of a boy assassin. Due note of that fact was emphasized by the arrival of M. Bogomolov, who symbolizes a return of normal Russo-Polish relations, after a period of horror struck deep in Russia by political and revengeful executions, and in Poland by a period of intense excitement uncalmed by the sentence of the aforesaid boy assassin to life imprisonment with a recommendation by the Court that this be commuted to 15 years...
Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Assassin Boris Kovenko declared to the Special Tribunal which sat upon his case: "I killed M. Vojkov, but I did not kill him as a person. I killed him because of what the Bolshevists have done in Russia...
...Court then heard evidence tending to prove: 1) that although 19-year-old Assassin Kovenko is now an anti-Communist he once served in the Soviet Army; 2) that his character is "highly excitable" but "entirely honorable...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...