“There was Complete Chaos in Those Days and Everyone was Doing as They pleased.”
How an inspection of the number 19 railroad mail car delayed psychology classes in Slovenia by 30 years
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Mihajlo Rostohar, revolution 1918, embezzlementAbstract
The author describes a judicial inquiry into the financial embezzlement after First Lieutenant Mihajlo Rostohar and Sergeant Franc Bar inspected a railroad mail car at the Ljubljana Railway Station on the night between 1st and 2nd November 1918, confiscating some cash. The article describes various testimonies and hearings, analyzing official and unofficial documents that shed light on the situation at the time, which one of the witnesses described as follows: “There was complete chaos at the time and everyone was doing as they pleased.” After a one-year investigation, two suspects were identified: the former First Lieutenant Mihajlo Rostohar and the former Sergeant Franc Bar. Given that it was not possible to prove any of the two guilty beyond reasonable doubt, the prosecution ended. A direct consequence of the investigation was that Mihajlo Rostohar’s application to be appointed Professor of Psychology at the Ljubljana faculty was rejected.
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