Evening star., 1933-04-16
ABANDONS
FRAME-UP CHARGE
Monkhouse in Night Session
Of Moscow Court Fails to
Renew Demands.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

mad caused damage to boilers This WAS
in reply to queries about mishaps to
machinery At the Baku Electrical Sta
ton in 1928.
One Of the Russian defendants, q
man named Olyenik. who formerly was
employed in San Francisco and Chicago
by the Westinghouse Electric Co., as
serted that Thornton had informed him
the damage at Baku was deliberate and
Cushny was responsible for it.
Hes 4 nar!" Cushny shouted.
That's not true!" said Thornton.
Apparently answering charges con-
tanned in a British government white
paper" issued in London that terroristic
means had been used by the Ogpu to
extract confessions from the English
men. Prosecutor vishinsky. his face
blazing with wrath, leaped at the OPEN
ing given him by Thornton when the
latter reiterated his denial Of a written
statement made during the preliminary
questioning.
why do you deny it now the prose-
cutor shot out.
Il was questioned for q very long
time" Thornton answered nervously.
ut was suggested to me that If con-
fessed." the engineer continued. that
everything would be all right; If did
not, then I would be Of no further use
either In Soviet Russia or in England.
II was so tired and browbeaten then
that signed the documents which they
dictated to me in Russian and which
wrote out in English" Thornton de-
clared.
You weren't too tired to translate
it." sneered Vishinsky. How long were
you questioned?"
To Thortons reply that ne did not
know, the prosecutor reterted eagerly
Il will tell ycu!"
Produces Ogpu Minutes.
Then he produced the Ogpu minutes
of the initial interrogation while the
men were imprisoned and, trembling
with rage, announced to the court that
these documents showed Monkhouse
had been questioned for II hours and
80 minutes and that Thornton hao
been interviewed for IL hours.
Each of these periods was broken py
an interval of several hours Tor meals,
Vishinsky said. =.
I'VE asked you previously II any
pressure were applied on you, and you
answered no." Vishinsky continued an
grily to the prisoner in the dock:
Il ask you now who Of the English
in Moscow taught you to say di1er-
ently?" -
Thornton did not reply and ViShin-
sky added, Il know"
without celebrating on this state
ment, he turned ON MonkhouSe: You
made the statement this morning that
you had been subjected to 1S hours OF
continuous questioning. I have pro-
cured the Ogpu minutes which defin-
itely prove your statement to be false. VI
Monkhouse replied, somewhat sheep
ishly, II had no watch 80 ! did not
know the exact time"
"Then why did you say 1S hours?''
the prosecutor demanded. 1T was Just
IL hours and 30 minutes. You tried to
discredit the Soviet investigation and
the Soviet court"
Addressing the court, he added, "This
ID an organized attempt to save them.
selves from the consequences OF the
evidence against them
The prosecutors outburSt was brougnl
on during the questioning Of the only
woman defendant, Anna Kutuzova, who
reiterated her previous testimony that
she, as Monkhuuse's secretary, over.
heard Morikhouse and Thornton plan
ming An oreanized campaign Of espion-
Age and sabotage.
Thornton denied these charges.
The cross-examining Of tias woman
was then started, and the signed con.
fession of one Of the Russian defend.
ants was produced.
The indication that A. W. Gregory
another Britut1, at least would be &C.
Quilted was given In the flnal minutes
Of tonight's session when the prosecutor
dismissed him from the stand after ask.
Ing one question:
"Do you still maintain that yor
worked conscientiously?"
Certainly" replied the defendant
truculently. That's what I came X
Russia for"
For the first time IN the trial, Maxim
Iitvinoff, commksar for foreign Af.
fairs, and hiS wife attended the triA