DARLING RIVER MYSTERY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10572, 29 September 1910, Page 4

DARLING RIVER MYSTERY.

[By Electric Telegram—Copyright. j (Per Press Association.) deceived September 27, at 10.40* p.m. Melbourne, September 28. A sensation took place at the Police Court when Senkovitch was charged with murdering Eismoud. A new interpreter read the charge, and then turned to the magistrate and said, "The man admits it." The magistrate said the Court did not want the statement at that stage, and the prisoner was remanded. Received September 29, at 11.10 a.m. Melbourne, September 29. ■ According to a story Senkovitch told a fellow-countryman he and Eismoud were fellow students at the Gatschinski Institute, St. Petersburg. Esmond's parents were rich and Senkovitcli's poor. As the result of reading sensational novels they decided to seek adventure. Eismond drew £750 of the £12,000 he had in the bank, and after a visit to various Continental cities came to Australia, where he intended to buy a boat and make a along the coast from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Russian Consul dissuaded him, and he then went to Bourke, seeking adventures in the interior. Until they reached Bourke the thought of hurting Eismond had not entered Senkovitch's mind. Suddenly one night it came, and he was prompted to kill him and get the money. Eismond was rolled in the blankets asleep when Senkovitch seized a hatchet and struck him on the head many times. He then rolled the body in the tent and threw it in the. river.