Sensational revelations with regard to the throwing of the bomb at the President of the Polish Republic, Mr. Wojciechowski, during his last visit to Lemberg, were made today by two Jewish deputies from Eastern Galicia before the club of Polish parliamentary correspondents.
The revelations were based on the information of a Ruthanian who was formerly a member of the Ruthenian youth terroristic organization, the name of which is not known. He named as the perperator of the conspiracy a Ruthenian, Pantschischin. Members of the same Ruthenian terroristic organization were responsible for the explosion at the University of Warsaw and in the Warsaw Citadel a year ago which caused great loss of life and property.
The Jewish deputies of Eastern Galicia have submitted all data to the Minister of the Interior who instructed the Lemberg Chief of Police to start an investigation which led to important discoveries. Pantschischin was found in a Polish military hospital at Kalisz in the department for veneral diseases. He confirmed all the details of the revelations, but denied his participation in the throwing of the bomb at the Polish President. Pantschischin is now under arrest. The Minister of Justice, as a result of the investigation, instructed the Lemberg State Attorney to submit all documents on the Steiger case to Warsaw immediately.
The revelations and the subsequent development which will lead to the complete vindication of Steiger and the accusation against the Jews have aroused great interest. Further developments are expected.
As will be recalled the military court in Lemberg, while considering the Steiger trial, was compelled to withhold its verdict and transfer the case to the District Civil Court because of a communication of the secret Ruthenian military organization, published in the Jewish paper, “Schwila” on the day the verdict was to be rendered, that not Steiger but members of the Ruthenian organization were responsible for the throwing of the bomb.
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