BOURKE MURDER CASE
ACCUSED MAN'S VERSION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 23. (Received March 23, at 11.10 p.m.) Senkovitch entered the box to-day and gave his version of killing Eisraond. Ho said that up to the time they camped at Bonrke they were good friends. On the night of the tragedy he wakened to find Eiemond attacking him. The deceased held him round the neck, nearly choking him. Senkovitch then seized an axe and swung it blindly. He hit Eismond several times till he fell. Senkovitch then ran away, and when he came back he found Eismond dead. He wrapped- the body in a tent and flung it in the river, and went back to Bourke. He denied killing him for his money, and said he took the money because it partly belonged to him and because he wanted to get back to Russia, while it was of no use to the dead man. Ho was frightened ito tell the police his story. He- thought that as this was an English' country no one would help him because it would «reate bad Feeling bstween England and Russia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15100, 24 March 1911, Page 5
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