STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1904, sig. 109-5/132 (damaged)

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30 9.) The poisoning of Czech scriptors: At my last lecture, the leader had postponed the decision on the execution of the death sentence for Elias, taking into account the necessary investigations into the poisoning matter of the Czech editors. The recent death of one of the editors and the very serious condition of a second of these editors has prematurely required publication in this direction. It is attached as an appendix. It can be seen from this that I have demanded from the protectorate government that they bury at the cost of the state.