The authorities today transferred David Frankfurter, 27-year-old Yugoslavian Jewish medical student who on Monday was convicted of slaying Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff, to prison here from his temporary cell at Chur. Frankfurter, head shaven and dressed in prison clothes, began serving his sentence of 17 years and four months.
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