'The trial of M.S, Sheshenin hoy commenced at the courts, the defendant being chai with the murder of Matochkin ata station" on the east line of the November, 1933, Kovaleft, wife of Matochkin, and his two' labourers were arrested for the crime and after the trial, Mrs, Kovaleft and one of the labourers were sentenced to death and the other to ftteen years penal servitude, but on the confession of Sheshenin, all three were released, Upon the opening of the trial Sheshenin stated that he had killed Matochkin to avenge the murder pt his relative by Matechkin during the Russian Revolution, when the latter was a Communist commissar. Sho-nin made a rambling statement accusing Matochkin of being charged with a special mission to harm Manchoukuo, The defence will probably bbe of the same nature as that of th Kaspe murderers, who declared tha!
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