Constantin Dumitrescu, the Galatz student who made an attempt recently on the life of M. Socor, the editor of the “Adeverul” launched into a long rhetorical speech on the greatness of the Roumanian national ideal, to which he said he had been attached for a long time, although he had not previously participated in the activities of any terrorist organisations, when his trial was opened here to-day before Judge Stoenesou. After the act of indictment had been read, the Judge said that the accused was before the court on a charge of illegal possession of arms and attempted murder.
He then asked Dumitrescu whether he had anything to say.
In the course of his statement which followed, Dumitrescu revealed that he had been arrested last July as one of those incriminated in the Borsha fire but had been acquitted after two months, saying that he had been found innocent.
He had a grudge against the “Adeverul”, he said, because it was conducting an anti-Nationalist campaign against the leaders of the patriotic organisations, calling upon the Government to take repressive measures against his friends and himself, because of their propaganda, by which they were trying to do good to the peasants and release them from Jewish opression. For that reason he had decided to kill Socor, whom he regarded as a traitor to Roumania’s national cause.
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