Sensation

On a smiling Sunday morning in Budapest, just after people were returning from early mass, news-venders did an unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against the Regent.

-- The mutilated bodies were later found in the Danube.