RUSSIAN POISON PLOT.
REMOVING CREDITORS. \ . INJECTING- CHOLERA BACILLI. iiy TsleEr^ph—PreaH Association—Copyriffhi. St. Petersburg, June G. In the case of Dr. Patchenko (charged 'with a series of murders, by poison, of wealthy persons who stood in the way of relatives or heirs) and of Count Lyassy (charged with bribing Dr. Patchenko to poison his brother-in-law, Count Boutiu'lin), it transpires that Dr. Patchenko, during tho cholera epidemic in Russia, injected cholera bacilli, pretending it was a preventive.
A St. Petersburg v merchant has ./been arrested for employing Dr. Patchenko to poison a number of his creditors.
Count Lyassy is a distant connection of Count Ronikier, who was n popular member of Warsaw society, and the author of several successful plays and novels.
[On Mav 20 it was cabled:—"Count Bogdan Ronikier, a well-known Polish nobleman, has been'arrested on a charge of murdering his brothor-in-law, a boy of 17, whose life lay between him and the inheritance of a large estate."]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 5
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157RUSSIAN POISON PLOT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 5
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