HEIR EXTERMINATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 125, 3 June 1910, Page 5

HEIR EXTERMINATION.

A RUSSIAN SENSATION.

COUNT AND RELATIVES POISONED.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 2, 10.30 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, June 2. Count Bonturlin, an officer of the Imperial Guard and heir to -E700;000, died suddenly. j-*>unt ILyaesyj his brother-in-law, and Dr. gPatcheriko have been arrested. The affair has caused a sensation. The former is'charged with bribing th© doctor to administer strychnine to the patient. ~... • ~ , The bodies of; Bonturhn's two Tjfdthers have been exhumed. 'Traces of poison werejdiscbvered. A boy murdered at Warsaw on May 'SOth was another, member of the family. . The St. Petersburg police accuse patcheriko of making » practice of T«m6ving wealthy people m behalf ot -the heirs of estates. They declare that the doctor received for «ach of the alleged murders.