The Denver Jewish news., 1925-08-06
Jewish Telegraphlc Agency

of the Communist party, who is be-
ing held for murder of Police Agent
Ciechnowski, was tried by a court
martial, it was announced.
Mikitin, one of the main witnesses
in the trial Of the three citizens of
Lemberg, being tried in connection
with the Steiger trial, Glasserman,
Jaeger and Kornhaber, declared in
court that he would refrain from fur
ther testimony in fear of sharing the
fate of Ciechnowski.
Pantschichin, the communist against
whom Ciechnowsk testified, admitted
that he was In Lemberg on the day
when the attack was made on Pres
ident Wojciechowski, but that he did
not leave his room.
Lemberg-ln connection with the
murder of Police Agent Ciechnowski,
who testified in court against Pant
schichin, and the subsequent refusal
of Mikitin to testify further in fear
that he might share the fate of
Ciechnowski, new light is thrown on
the entire Steiger affair, and the trial
of the three Jewish citizens of Lem.
berg, who are being tried on the ac-
cusation Of bribery in attempting to
prove Steiger's innocence
In view of the new developments
the Act of Indictment of Polish state
attorney is now of particular interest,
"The public prosecutor accuses
Mikolai Mikitin, aged twenty-five, no
faith, graduated High School, of hat-
ing, on several occasions, falsely ac-
cused Stephen Pantschichin and Di-
mitri Fryduk, at the police offices and
in evidence as a witness--in Court of
crime which they did not commit,
the intention being to bring about
their conviction of the charge of a
premeditated attempt to murder the
Polish President Mojiechowski, for
which they were liable to punishment
under Paragraphs l34-l35 of the
Penal Code, and also under Para
graph A of the law dealing with the
use of explosives; also of having
sought to bring the State into dis
credit in its work of dealing out JUS
tice and of requiring of witnesses in
court that they should speak the
truth, he being witness in the Dis
trict Court of Lemberg in the Steiger
case and having given false evidence.
The public Prosecutor further ac-
cuses, Ignace kornhaber, aged Al,
master-builder; Ignace Jaeger, aged
40, proprietor of printing works
Max Glasserman, aged 46, artisan,
and Jan Dwornicki, aged 45, director
of private detective agency, and be-
cause they in the autumn of 1924 and
in January, 1925, in common agree
ment, by means of advice and instruc-
ton led Mikitin to the actions COM
mitted by him, and by giving him
money and promising further none
tary rewards helped him thereto.
The Public Prosecutor further ac-
cuses Mikolai Mikitin and Ignace
Kornhaber of having in July, 1924,
fully knowing the facts, given to an
unknown guilty person translation
in the Ukrainian language of docu-
ment dated June l2, 1924, addressed
to the President of Lemberg District
Court, Jan Havel, ostensibly written
by the Ukrainian Military Organiza-
ton, the translation having been
made by Mikitin on the instructions
of Kornhaber, and with having fully
knowing this, helped the unknown
guilty person to utter menaces in
writing against the President, Have,
and his family and their property foI
the purpose of prevailing upon hin
in the methods applied in Lembere
Prison in regard to political prison
ers, the menaces being of such ma
ture, that in view of the position OF
the threatened person, and the char
acter Of the menaces, they could have
aroused in him a well-founded fear.
"On the fifth of September, 1924
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon" the
, indictment proceeds, "a bomb wa.
thrown at the corner of Copernicu.
street and Legionov street at the car
riage of the Polish President, Will,
. he was riding attended by militar!
suite to the opening of the Lemberi
, Trade Fair. The bomb fell through
/ the carriage over the head of tn,
President, and failed to explode