(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The district court of Homel sentenced a Russian police officer, Schwarow, to death on the charge that in 1905, the year of the first revolution, he shot and killed two Jewish workmen and wounded many. His sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment.
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