The Archive · 1939

Lived in England

For ten years he lived in England. As all revolutionaries have to, he often changed his name, He haa changed from Wallach to Maximovitch, Gustav.

Graf and finally Litvinov.

Tu England he took tke name ilarrison, He had a job as a book-keener and earned a few extra shill ling. by teaching Russian to Hampstead highbrows, All the time he kept up his revolutionary work, attending international Socialist conferences, keeping in touch with the progress of the revolutionaries in Russia, talking till all hours of the morning with like-minded English friends, They went along a path, and a lew minutes later the woman came back, screaming and bleeding, with a cut on the back of her neck.

Mr. Roberts said that in a statement to the police, Smith said; She told me she was going to meet another fellow and go to a dance, so I lost my temper. I had no intention of harming her.

Dr, Thomas W. May, of Swindon, said that if Mrs, Baxter's wound had been plugged soon after it had been inflicted she would have lived.

Smith, giving evidence, said that he and Mrs. Baxter lived together as man and wife, They had trouble about her going with men.

When he met Mrs. Baxter on the night of the tragedy he asked her where she was going, and she said she was going to a dance with another man. Then he lost himself, and pulled the razor out.

Mr. Justice Atkinson, passing sentence said that on Smith's own evidence it was the only verdict at which the jury could properly arrive.

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