ALEXANDER EISMOND'S DEATH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 5

ALEXANDER EISMOND'S DEATH.

SENKOVITCH CHARGED WITH MURDER. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 22. In order to solve the question of the admissibility of certain statements which Senkovitch made to the police at Melbourne, prisoner went into the box. Speaking through an interpreter, he said he made the statements because he thought that, as in Russia, he must answer the policeman or be imprisoned. In reply to another question, ho declared that he did not believe in the existence of God.

A body was found ill a calico hag in the Darling River, near Bourke. It was suspected to be that of a Russian named Eismond, and his servant, Senkovitch, was subsequently arrested. According to tile story Sankovitch told a fellow countryman, he and Eismond were follow students at the Gatschinski Institute, St. Petersburg. Eismond’s parents were, rich, and Sankovitch’s poor. As a result of reading sensational, novels he decided to seek adventures. Eismond drew £750 of £12,000 he had in the bank, and after a visit to various continental cities, came to Australia. He intended to buy a boat and make a trio along the coast from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Russian Consulate dissuaded him. Then ho went to Bourke, seeking adventures in the interior. Until he reached Bourke the thought of hurting Eismond had not entered Sankovilch’s mind. Suddenly, one night came a prompting “kill him and get his money.” Eismond was rolled in blankets and asleep. Sankoviteh seized a hatchet, struck him on the head many times, ‘ rolled the body in tho tent, and threw it In the river.