The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-20
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS WILL ACT
Man and Woman Are Under Surviel-
lance and Will be Ready for Local
Officials if They Desire Them
Brought Back.

After search lasting for more than
eleven months former District Attor-
ney Robert Verne Baker has succeed
ed in locating Julius Shelanek and An
ma Mahaclowa, two Russions, former
residents Of Kenosha, who are wanted
by the police of this city on charges
Of murder. The pair are now living
unmofested in st. Petersburg and the
former district attorney has turned
over to his successor in office the street
and number of the place where the
pair are living and they are under the
surveillance Of St. Petersburg officials
and cannot escape if Kenosha county
insists on their being brought back to
this city for trial.
The pair are charged with having
been connected with the death of John
Borkow also Russian, whose badly
decomposed body was found in a shall
low grave in a basement under a
house at $40 Fremont avenue on the
evening of May 3rd of last year. The
body was found by a gang of sewer
diggers who were repairing the plumb
ing in the house. It had been wrapped
in a couple Of blankets which had been
filed with quick lime after which the
whole had been tied with ropes.
The investigation made by Chief
0 'Hare and District Attorney Baker
at the time indicated that the man
had been murdered fifteen months be-
fore the body was found, but Russians
in Kenosha gave information which
seemed to fix the crime on the two
people now located in st. Petersburg.
It was found that they had left Ke-
nosha months before the body was
found and although the police depart
ment with the aid of the Russian con-
sui in Chicago sought to secure their
arrest at the time they were able to
elude the st. Petersburg officials. Mr..
Baker kept right on following up the
case and finally he managed to get
hold of letters which had been received
by Kenosha Russians which showed
that Shelanek and the woman, who
is now supposed to have been his wife,
had moved back to St. Petersburg.
This information was secured through
a doctor in st. Petersburg who had
served as the family physician for
Shelanek after his return to the Rus
sian capital.
1t is alleged that Borkow, the muir
dered man, had quite little money
at the time of his disappearance and
it is supposed that robbery was the
motive for the crime.
The present officials of the city have
not as yet taken fany steps to have
Shelanek and the woman returned to
Kenosha and it is doubtful if such
SVCpo WILL w UdhCA lie Cos OIL DT10Q-
ing them back to Kenosha for trial
would be close to a thousand dollars
and there is no appropriation Of the
county available to the district attor-
ney for these expenses. A cablegram
from the detective headquarters in
st. Petersburg announces that there
will be no chance of the escape of the
fugitives and the officials there are
ready to act as soon as they are ad-
vised that the arrest is desired by the
Kenosha officials. There is no one in
Kenosha to- push the charges as Bor-
kow, the murdered man, had few if
any friends in the city. At the time
of the alleged crime he was not a
citizen and he had resided here but
a short time.