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From Sofia despatches chronicled the assassination of M. Madjariow, the mayor of the city, by one Tomoff. For a wonder the two men chanced to be of the same political party and as a result the Bulgarian press was unable to adhere to its usual policy of attaching an allegedly "deep political significance" to every notable crime...
...this instance the murderer admitted that he killed M. Madjariow for discharging him from a minor municipal post. Moreover, as he was about to be apprehended by the police, he committed suicide -thus putting an end to the possibility of a vendetta being declared by the relatives of the murdered...
Since all opportunities for sensationalism were thus balked, considerable mention was made of the fact that the murdered man was a son of the noted Bulgarian diplomat, M. Michael Madjariow, a pre-War Bulgarian Minister to Russia and to Great Britain...
...recalled that the elder Madjariow had vigorously urged a pro-Ally attitude upon the Bulgarian Government up to the very moment when Bulgaria threw in her lot with the Central Powers. His son rose to political prominence early in life, and was "one of the youngest and most popular majors ever installed at Sofia...
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