Eugen Skyba, 26 years old, had been arrested on suspicion of having been an accomplice in the assassination of the Polish Minister of the Interior Bronislas Pieracki, the Criminal Police Department announced today. The killing took place in Warsaw on June 15. Police said that the arrested man resembled a description of one of the three men who shot the Minister as he left a club after lunch.
From Warsaw it was reported that Skyba, now in the hands of the police under suspicion for the murder of the Minister of Interior Bronislas Pieracki, is officially a member of the Ukrainian terrorist organization, it was established today. He was arrested some time ago but the matter was not reported.
Reprinted from Yesterday’s Late Edition
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