Russian Woman Causes Sensation In New York

Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1948, Page 5

Russian Woman Causes Sensation In New York

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Jtieceived Friday, 7 p.m. • NEW YORK, August 12. Mrs. Kosenkina, who is lying in the hospital in a critical conditiony told the police that she deliberately jumped from the third floor of the Russian Consulate-G eneral biiilding. After doetors exarriined her, Deputy Police Inspeetor Edward Mullins was allowcd to question her. Through an interpreter he asked if she jumped and she replied: "Yes." Mullins asked: "Why?". But Mrs. Kosenkina closecl her eyes and breathed heavily and the doetors wavecl Mullins asicle. She will not be questioned again until she is stronger. Her injuries are now listed as a simple fr'aCt-ure of the lower right leg, a compound fracture of tlie right kneeeap, a fractured pelvis and undefined internal injuries. Her condition was pronounced as critical, but she is expected to recover. The United Press says the Assistant Soviet Consul-General, Mr. Zot Chepurnykh, arrived at the hospital within half an hour of Mrs. Kosenkina 's admittance and demanded that a pretty young woman whom he introduced as Dr. Nina Larchenko should be allowed to "look 011" while Ameriean doetors examined the woman, but she was not allowed in the examination roorn. Mr. Chepurnykh spent. two hours at t/he hospital trying to see' her, but the police kept refusing. Finally he approached Police Inspeetor Mullins and demanded admission to her room- "in the name of the Soviet Ambassactor, " but Mullins again refused, saying: "We are conducting the investigation and we' do not want any -dnterf erence. " Mr. Chepurnykh then left the hospital, refusing to talk to' the reporters.