Scholar in Leningrad Prison Commits Suicide Before Being Executed

Suicide in the Leningrad Spalernaya prison preceded execution of the death sentence imposed by the Bolshevik Government on Professor Raffalovitch, an authority on economics, according to information received by Professor Charles Sarolea of Edinburgh University.

Professor Sarolea, in a letter to the editor of the London “Times” states that he was informed of the suicide of his friend, Professor Raffalovitch, in the Leningrad prison. Professor Raffalovitch was held for execution on the charge of “economic espionage”. “Professor Raffalovitch was not a politician but a quiet and inoffensive scholar”, Professor Sarolea claims in his letter, “and his only crime was that he engaged in a conversation with me when I visited Russia recently.”