New Britain herald., 1922-08-09


 Herr Rosenfeld and Herr Waters, the
 other foreign counsel sent in by the socialist internationales to defend
 their political co-helievers. Representative of the Third Com munist 1nternationale reached an agreement with the Amsterdam and vienna, or the mider Internationales
 prior to the trial by which foreign counsel were to be admitted Into Rus s'a, and the defendants guaranteed against the death sentence, In re- turn the other Internationales prom lsed to call congress for united front' of all the Internationales against capitalism. This conference. the Communists contend. was to have been conpoked during the Genoa con terence. This was not done and the Russian representatives declared the agreement had been broken, placing the responsibility on other Interna- uonales. Therefore, the Russians announced. they were not bound to refrain from sentencing the social revolutionsts to death.
 The open propaganda made against the socialist internationales in Mos- COW. and the repeated decisions of the court against the defense, aroused their ire more than has any event of the last 50 years and embittered the feeling between the once united reds" and ''pinks." Each side accused the ether of bad faith.
 An event unprecedented in the his- tory of courts the world over oc- cured June 20. the anniversary of the assassination Of Commissioner Vola- darsky, one of the men whom the social revolutionists were accused of causing to be murdered. On that day in Moscow thousands Of workmen were ordered to parade the streets and demonstrate, demanding the death of the defendants. Represen- tatives of the demonstrators, despite the objections of the Russian lawyers who remained in court to defend the prisoners. were permitted to ha- rangue the court, and the judges themselves thanked the mass of work men for the Inspiration" they had given them
 Charges Preferred.
 The assistance given by the Social Revolutionists to American. English | and French troops at Archangel and in other expeditions; the plots against the lives of Lenine and Trotzky, and ether acts of alleged high treason were detailed in court in building up the case against the defendants. Most | of the prisoners admitted they had l worked against the Bo1sheviki in the | ,j IoGo they would continue to do so. But | a few who turned inform CTS, they all denied participation in | assassinations.
 One of the most dramatic incidents l in the long course of thrills was | when Gregory Rather, one of the l defendants was on the stand. His l sister. Engene Rather also a prisoner | and one of the principals among the accused, hysterically hurled interrup- tions at her brother. Alexander. de- what had become of their other brother. who had been killed by the Reds while demonstrating in Mos cow in favor of the Constituent As semby.
 Prisoners Are Divided.
 The prisoners were divided into ,hree groups The first. numbering 4 persons. comprised principal members of the executive committee of the social revolutionist party. The second consisted Of i small assemblage. de- tended by Communists themselves, who had turned informers and were low said to be adherents of the Soviet l 'egime The third group were mem oers of the party accused of less serious offenses.
 The principal 14 defendants were;
 A. Gotz. chairman of the central committee of the social revoutionists Ind friend of Kerensky
 Dinitri Donskoi, agent of the com nittee on military forces and chief ,f the "terrorists."
 Leo J. Gurstein, M A. Leikatch. N. Y. Ivanoff. Dimitri F. Rakoff, Florien :. Feodorovitch. Michael A. Vedian- pin, Michael J Hendleman, Sergius " Morosoff, Nicholas I. Artenieff, Gregory M, Rather Eugene M. Kiri- jeff, all responsible members of the ,arty committee, and Miss Eugene M. Rather. who was the party treasurer
 Among the group of informers were .ydia Konopolova, who said she was chosen to kill Lenine, and NJ. Seme- 1off, who confessed he was the di- 'ecting head of the organization which killed Noladarsky.
 Throughout the trial admission was ,y ticket only and the audience was limited generally 10 workers sympa hetic with the government. The building was heavily guarded
 Locally the defendants were re- yarded as persons who had plotted to Sll the highest officials in the land Translated to the United States, the situation would have been duplicated oy the trial Of prisoners accused of nurderng two members of the cabi- oet wounding the president and en- ieavoring to overthrow the federal