The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-02-15
Tie terrifying Confessions Of az Old
Russian Physician.
MURDER Was his TRADE
ing \ Nobleman.

The trial Of DR.. Ivan Pantchenko.
the physician whose profession Vas
murder. for the death Of Count Vas
sill Bau,urlin by the injection OF
diptheria germs. is still! occupying
the center OF the stage in 81. Peters
burg. with the ripplcs Of excitement
extending past the shores Of Europe
and even touching America The
crime for which the physician is De"
Ing tried. the murder Of Count Bout
urlin. one OF the most crafti!y-plann-
ed and co!d-blcoded in the history
OF Russia. is only drop in the buck
e; compared with the numerous oth-
er killings the noted doctor has con-
sessed 10 and which he has su5se-
quently denied. but which will pron-
ably be fastened to him by the pros
ecuticn
he was murderer by profession:
man who carefully planned each o:
his crimes and then carried them
through to a successful completion
70. certain amount Of money. Ar
tistic murders. sinslv. or IN blocks.
have been his speciality. Russia has
produced many famous criminals.
and during the reisns Of some OF
her monarchs marvellous crimes have
been committed there. But never in
recorded history has one man lore
such wholesale slaughter b. such
scientific methods.
Dr.. Pantchenko. who is 20 years
old. confessed 10 causing 80 deaths
by means Of incubation. He E's
done it all for hire and his fees have
run into the millions. He has used
the germs OF many deadly maladies
and every mysterious death OF re-
cent years IS now laid at his soo:.
His trail leads even into the palace
OF the car and members OF the roy
al family have been his victims
In his awful work ne has ar,-
ploved the germs OF the dreaded
scou.ge o. Russia. the cholera. He
is even credited with having been
RESPONSIBLE for the terrible eDidenic
that has cut down thousands from;
the Baltic to the Black Sea within
the last few years. He has removed
heirs who were in the way OF others.
He has slain lovers AZ the hehest
OF rivals. He has stopped efectu-
ally the imDortunities OF insistent
CT editors. In short. wherever man
has had an enemy and could pay 20
have him killed Dr. Pantchenko has
been open to hire.
Was Never Suspected.
His method have been OF nature
that tended to shield him from even
the breath Of suspicion. To insure
his own safety t was necessary that
his intended victim should be III ana
tha. he should be called 10 attend
him. This usually was simple. De
cause OF his reputation as learned
and ski!lful physician.
Once at the bedside it was an easy
matter TO administer hy7odern:caiiE
the germs of cholera. dipiherea or
some other fatal disease. He eN-
planned in court that he never steE:i-
;zeG his hypodernic syr!n.e because
that would diminish the effectiveness
of the spermo preparation and leave
4 chance that the victim might re-
cover.
The specific charge upon which the
aged physician is being tried Is Inc
murder OF Baron Ivan Vassili Brtur-
lin. He confessed this deed amons
Others. but later he retracted tn's
confession and said that he had been
induced to make il by Inducements
held out 10 him by the examining
magistrate at the original iTaniry
However. the prosecution is havin-
very little trouble fastening ihe
crime upon him.
Back OF Dr.. Pantchenko in the Sr-
turlin case-and. the poiSon"r says,
in all the other murders he has ronl-
m,,ted-s.:nds = figure that IS e"en
more terrible to the Russian !EiaS!-
nation than that Of :he aged poison
Q. because Of the dread. mysterious
power that il represents. II IS that
O, Count Patrick O.3rien q" Lassr.
who is Jointly accused with Pant
chenko OF the r7rrde- o. Hnfariin.
His was the brain. Ii" doctor says. |
that planned the horrible deeds: nj"
was the hand that shared rhe aro-
ceeds. and from him emaoated the :
strange. hypnotic influence which !
sent the noisonc- 20 the S'cK-heHs
Of his victims and kept him IT his
work Of butchery.
Covering with raar as his Glance /
rested on Count 4" ! assv in court
pantchenko pointed him ont rs N"
Sevengal; whose mind had directed