The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-12

we'll supplied with money lndl-
Gated they had been financed
by some government.
Benes broke down, Petit
said, when he begged for pro-
lection for his wife and child in
Yugoslavia, fearing that the Yugo-
slavs would take vengeance on them.
Police believe Benes, who ex-
pressed regrets for his deeds, was
merely a subordinate. but that
Stikomir was one of the leaders. The
latter. they said. had been identi-
fed as a redoubtable Yugoslavian
terrorist, who had taken refuge in
Hungary and long had been sought
by Yugoslav authorities.
Petit, a stubby police official with
a goatee beard, captured the pair
single-handed. awakening them in
their darkened hotel room after first
sending the hotel keeper in to stael
their trousers.
Informed sources believed the
men who plotted the aSSasSinationS
were trying to embroil France. Italy,
YugoSlavia. Rumania and Czecho-
slovakia in a mad scheme to adj
vance the cause eff Croatian indie
pendence.
Secret police. interrogating the
suspects at AnnemaSSe, on the Swiss
frontier. sought to find a possible
connection between the Alexander
Barthou aSSaSSinationS and the as
sassination by Nazis of Chancellor
Engelbert DollfuSS of Austria.
Petit announced tonight that after
the hours of ceaseleSS questioning
the suspects confessed as follows:
They are members of an interna-
tional secret society whose name
they would not give. With other
members of the band they gathered
at Munich, Germany.
Sent to Paris
They went thence to Zurich,
Switzerland. There they met a man
whom they did not know who gave
them money. He instructed them TO
go to Paris and meet another man.
unknown to them, who had arrived
from South America.
They met him near the Eiffel
Tower and received detailed instruc-
tions. These were that Kelemen
should kill Alexander at Marseille.
If he failed the others were TO kill
Alexander in Paris.
This unknown man provided each
with two automatic pistols whose
clips held twenty bullets each and
were unusually rapid firers with ma
chine gun-like trigger action. They
said their orders did not include
killing Barthou. They attributed the
wound which caused his death TO a
wild shot.
Four Men Are Traced
These suspects. police said, con-
fesSsd that they belonged TO an in
ternational secret organization and
were sent TO Paris by their chief or
A mission of which they knew nokA-
ing.
Secret police told the United
Press they had traced four men
the two under arrest; Petrus Kele-
men. assassin of Alexander and
Barthou: and a man now sought y
soldiers and policemen in the caves
of Fontainebleau forest-slmost tC
the spot where the murders &C.
CURED.
They traced them from Marseille
back 10 AK En- Provence. nearby;
back TO Paris; thence to Switzer-
land: from there TO Munich and
finally TO Hungary where. they said
the plot of the MarSeille aSSaSSina-
tions was Matched.
BY means of assumed identitie:
with countries viewed with suspicion
by each other. it was suspected. the
plotters hoped 10 cause international
troubles through terrorism thar
would involve half a dozen countries
The motive seemed to be TO ad
vance the cause Of independence
for the CroatS who live in sulleI
discomfort in the war-enlargeC
kingdom of Yugoslavia. in then
little home territory behind thl
Adriatic.
False passports. false names
false nationalities we're used by al
the men SO far involved in the plot