Word: georgie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost at once the O. G. P. U. was able to announce that its efficient police-spies had tracked down the bombers. One, stated to be Colonel Georgi Nikolaevich, a onetime officer in the White Russian Army of Baron Wrangel, was chased by O. G. P. U.-ers and shot through the heart as he fled. The other bomb heaver, unidentified, was taken alive in the suburbs of Moscow through the aid of loyal peasants who betrayed his hiding place...
...lorry arrived. Out of it got three prisoners : Lieut. Colonel Georgi Koeff, Lawyer Marco Friedmann, Sacristan Zadgorsky (TIME, May 11, 25). Under heavy guard, they were marched to the gibbets, where the acts of accusation were read to them. This took about 40 minutes. It was then the turn of three gypsy executioners...
...Georgi Koeff, for harboring Captain Ninkoff (engineer of the outrage, killed while resisting arrest). Public execution...