The World - News from Feb. 2, 1989
A Polish prosecutor ruled out suspicion of murder in the case of a pro-Solidarity priest found dead in his apartment this week. Citing a preliminary investigation, prosecutor Tadeusz Sabat said that Father Stanislaw Suchowolec, 30, was asphyxiated when an electric heater set fire to a carpet. In Warsaw, a church official concurred. “There are still a lot of questions, but to a great extent one can say the (electric) stove caused the fire,” Father Cezary Potocki said. Suchowolec’s death, in the city of Bialystok, provoked controversy because another pro-Solidarity priest, Father Stefan Niedzielak, 74, was found dead of a broken neck Jan. 21. The government said the inquiry into the latter’s death is continuing.
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