The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-24
Sentence of
Don PlOtters

MOSCOW, USSR., (By Mail).-
From early morning crowd of some
hundreds had collected round the
doors of the Dom" Soyouzov wait
ing to receive passes to enter. By
nightfall it had swelled to many
thousands and the long line stretched
many hundreds of yards away into
the darkness of the side pereulok
(alley). A company of foot and
mounted militia kept order continu-
ally having to clear the thorough
fare that at every few minutes
swarmed with new contingents of
workers eager to see the last episode
of one of the greatest dramas ever
enacted within the halls of this for
mer club of tzarist nobility.
Doors Open.
At o'clock in the evening the
doors of the Halls of Columns were
thrown open and in the space of
half-an-hour it was crowded from
top to bottom. Every inch of sitting
and standing space was occupied and
a good part of the corridor running
round the hall. The number of cor
respondents seats seemed to have
swelled to thrice it's usual number
and the box given to the use (dur-
ing the triaD of the diplomatic corps
was full.
At 10 o'clock the state prosecutors,
take their places on the tribune to
be followed a little later by the
counsels of the defense.
After Is minutes the accused are
brought in under escort, they are
Immediately surrounded by their
counsels with whom they enter into
earnest conversation.
Excitement.
The air is becoming increasingly
warm and is filled with a continuous
hum like the flight of an army of
bees, but gradually however, it dies
away and at midnight sharp enters
the court.
"The special sitting of the high
court is declared open," says its
president, Vishinsky, who after a
brief pause proceeds to read out the
sentence.
The sentence is divided into two
parts: the first gives a short his
torical review of the beginnings of
the counter-revolutionary organiza-
lions and it's general characteristics
This, fully upholds the main theses
of the state prosecutor, as follows:
The court recognizes as fully proved
that fact that the anti-Soviet coun-
ter-revolutionary inclinations Of
section of the technical engineers,
technicians) intelligentzia, during
the first years of the existence of
the Soviet State, brought them into
contact with the ex-owners, from
whom they received instructions and
money and to whom they supplied
valuable and secret information con-
corning the situation in the Donetz
coal area.
Continuing further, the sentence
describes the activities of the Khar-
kov and Moscow sections of the or
ganization, the sabotage and de-
structive work that was carried out
Finally, it characterizes in stern
terms the contact of the organiza-
ton with foreign groups outlining
the channels through which the vari-
Gus sums Of money were sent in.
Vishinsky then proceeded to the
second part of the sentence.
In accordance with Article 58-2
$751;, 58-11, of the Criminal Code of
r. S. F. S. r. "a Gorletsky, (2)
Berezovsky, (3) Shadlun, (4) Kar-
zarinov, (5) Boyarshinov, (6) Matov
(7) Bratanovsky, (8) Boyarinov
(9) Krshinovsky, (10) Usevitch and
(11) Budnovo, are sentenced to the
highest measure of social defense
to be shot with confiscation of prop.
erty.