The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-19
QUGG IN JAIL FOR MURDER
RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN ACCUSED
90 POISONING Az HEIR.
Bsolhsr-h-Iaw % Ihs Dead Man Also Ae.
euaea Career 81 ~. Pantehenho.
Who PFetenard % Nave Foan6
an EllxlF % a.me-Pultee PusEled.

enaea- Career 81 NJ. Panaehenso
WhO PFetenaed 20 Nave FoUna
an Eli3ir ~ i.he-Psliee PuESled
ST. PETHnGBUR1. June e.-Dr. Pan
tchenkO h now In prison on q charge 81
numbering by poison . young noble.
vassiR ButurIin. Ths dad mNn's brother
in-lav. Capt. O'Brisn Do Lacy. q hrst
cousin Of Countess TaFnOvaka. thu cea-
tral figure Of the Venice murder trial,
Who wNs born O'Rourke. u allO undes
arrest. accused % aiding the doctor IN
tho crime. Ths Captains family = de-
scsndsd from the Irish emisres who
fought for the old kingdom % Poland
as the end Of the eighteenth century
and remained - settlers in the country,
They own a landed estate in the wilma
district.
Young ButuFlin Vas the only con Of q
wealthy General whose ancestors were
leading hsnchmsn Of Peter the Great.
He wan heir 20 fortune Of over t.0O0. 600.
Until six months ago he was q Lieutenant
In the Prebrajensky Regiment q ths
Imperial Guard. About that time he
married . young singer IRON ona Of tbs
secondary conosrt halls. SophiS Hey
mann.
A. . junior Oflcer In the Russian army
Il not allowed to marry . woman whose
social siatusls NOT accepted by the Colcnel
of his regiment the young man had 10
do6 his Uniform. Hls father. who was
angry a. the match. refused 20 heip him.
but under Russian law he could not dis
inherit him Or deprive him of the reversiOn
Of the main share Of the family estate.
Tia sx-niaEdsman secured q small place
in the Ministry Of the Interior - q clerk
and lived in very modest style with HE
young wife.
Les than q month ago he began 10 re-
appear In the pleasure quarters Of the
capital. always IN the company 81 Dr..
PmntchenkO. The latter Il Of shady
anteoedents. Resides being forty years
the senior Of Buturlin. the doctor by his
manifestations Of eccentricity and some
times 81 drink SEEMED an extraordinary
companion 70 have chosen.
Last year he was seeking notoriety
Tor a noatrum which he had compounded
Tor destroying the cholera microbe.
More recently he was trying 10 eel an
elixir that would endOW with perpetual
viROr the old OF the exhausted.
Young Buturlin sought 70 undergo
the treatment and IN three days he was
dad. DR.. Pantchsnko maintained At
first that h. personally made only the first
injection and that the two succeeding
injections were made by the patient
himself, Who must have used an unclean
syringe and caused blood poisoning.
Under tho rigorous cross-examination
Of the police prosecutor the doctor later
broke down and confessed that he had
put Buturlin out % the way by arrange
ment with the young mans brother-in-
law. O'Rrisn d. Lacy. In view Of Pan
ichenkO' antscedents his copteusion Il not
taken az absolutely establishing his own
guilt.
he has undoubtedly some knowledge
Of nedicine. but there n ~ much of the
qtIack snd notoTiety seeker IN his char
acteF that many people ara prepared 70
believe that he would confess Tor the sake
Of being IN the limelight. The Captain
crime and his father-in-laW the dead mans
father. believes IN bis innocenoe.
PantcheckO. Il SCENE. was long ago
teacher Of Count Witte. when the latter
was q hoy o. the Tifis gymnasium school.
Later be atudied metiCins and took q
degree 81 KhaTkDH, buf vas soon In trouble
for writing the theses for less compe-
tent medical students who were eeeklng
their doctors diploma. His price for this
service was NsO. He went abroad TO
escape prosecution and passed some
yeaFs in frarce aud Germany following
the shady side Of me,iical practice.
On the outbreak o. the hueaO-Japaneee
war he volunteered for service with the
field hospital CORPS and Was accepted.
During The MAnchurian campaign he
formed q strong attachment for a nurse.
Nine MuravieA. . middle aEei woman.
Later this woman h said TO have kept
him in q state u agitatei terror and 10