The case of Józef Muraszka ( the murder of Bagiński and Wieczorkiewicz), Warsaw 1926
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Softcover, publisher's binding, spine glued in upper part with paper, soiling, yellowing of paper. Overall condition good.
Number of pages : 124
Format : 14.5 x 20.5 [cm].
" A publication describing a notorious political case during the Second Republic.
"Jozef Muraszko was an officer of the State Police. On March 29, 1925 in Kolosovo near Stolpce he shot Valery Baginski and Antoni Wieczorkiewicz. They were communists sentenced to 15 years in prison in the trial for blowing up the powder magazine of the Warsaw citadel (25 or 28 soldiers were killed on October 13, 1923). Although Bagiński's and Wieczorkiewicz's involvement in communist activities was not in doubt, their involvement in the assassination was questioned during the trial by the defense, which presented the whole case as a police provocation. The findings of the investigation were also challenged by a parliamentary committee headed by PSL MP Adam Pragier.
The death penalty, which had originally been awarded, was changed in an act of clemency by Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski. In 1925, the Soviet Union made a proposal to exchange prisoners: Baginsky and Wieczorkiewicz for the Polish consul in Georgia, lawyer Jozef Lashkevich with his wife and daughters, and Catholic priest Bronislaw Usas, who were imprisoned in Moscow's Lyubianka.
The exchange was to take place on March 29 at 4 p.m. at the border railroad station in Kolosovo. In the train car, Murashko fatally shot both escorts, who died of their wounds despite prompt medical attention. From the beginning, Jozef Murashko confessed to his deed, explaining: "I killed the enemies of my Fatherland, on whom I took revenge for the wrongs they had done to Poland." However, he firmly emphasized that he acted on impulse and it was not a premeditated crime.
Jozef Murashko was sentenced in a high-profile trial to two years in prison.After his release from prison, he joined the Border Protection Corps. His further fate remains in question. In the fall of 1939, he was allegedly recruited by the Gestapo, for which the Underground State later executed him. This is now disputed by some historians. "
source: drugarzeczpospolita.blogspot.com
