GUILTY OF MURDER.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18072, 14 May 1924, Page 9

GUILTY OF MURDER.

' A SOVIET JUDGE. ♦ | (BY CAftLK—PRESS ASSOCIATE* COPYRIGHT.) (AT7STBALIAS AXS H.K. CABLX ABSOCUTXOS.)' ■ LONDON, May 12. ' "T am in my office a Turkish Pasha who has every right to command the services of women in my employ." This declaration, says the Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Express," was made by Enaknyaaev; a former presiding the Soviet i Supremo Cou,rt, in pleading not guilty at "Voro- ■ nesh to the murder of Irena Argdva. Argova . was his secretary-typiste, a beautiful girl from Ukrainia. The trial revealed that she resisted his advances, despite his giving her various lucrative positions, but offered to marry him if he divorced his wife. He refused, but continued assiduously to pursue the unyielding girl, till finally he dismissed her from tho court. When the facts became known, he was relieved of the presidency of the court, and the girl was • reinstated. Later she received a letter Enaknyasev, which she returned unopened. Enraged at. the rejection 'Of the message, ho waited outside the court and shot the girl dead. The prisoner made a dramatic defence, and declared that he waß. suffering from an irresistible passion. He loved his' wife, yet he could not live without Irena. ' ' .

Enaknyasev was found guilty and. sentenced to ten years')strict isolation.