SENTENCED TO DEATH
CALLOUS RUSSIAN AUTOCRAT ASSISTANT ALSO FOUND GUILTY MOSCOW, May 23. (Received May 24. at 8 p.m.) I. D. Simenchuk, director of the polar station at Wrangell Island, was sentenced to death. He wept when lie heard the verdict. J. Startsev, described as Simenchuk's Man Friday, who murdered Dr Wulfson, was also sentenced to death. He smoked, a cigarette while the court applauded the verdict. Simenchuk created a dictatorship and ill-treated the scientific staff and local population at Wrangell Island. When the medical officer, Dr Wulfson, protested he received a fictitious emergency call, and was murdered en route by Simenchuk's assistant. Simenchuk attempted to starve Mrs Wulfson, and denied the Eskimos the right to hunt or be ( fed from the station's warehouse, with the result that several died.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22889, 25 May 1936, Page 9
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