DARLING RIVER MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 4

DARLING RIVER MURDER.

A SEARCH FOR ADVENTURE, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright , Melbourne, September 29. According to a story told to a fellow, countryman by. SenMovitch, the Eussian 1 arrested for the murder of His'companion,'.' Eismond, • near Bourke (New South Wales), he and Eismond were fellowstudents at the Gatchiuski Institute, St. • Petersburg. • Eismond's . parents were ■ rich; . Senkovitch's were poor. As the V result of reading sensational novels, the '• pair decided to seek'adventure. ' * ilisraond drew .£750 of J812.000 he had - r in the bank, and after visiting various-./ continental cities, they came to Australia, where it was intended to buy a boat and make a trip along the coast from Sydney to the Gulf .of Carpentaria.- The Eussian' Consulate, however, dissuaded them from' doing-so," and they then went to Bourke, seeking adventures in the interior until they reached Bourke. ■ ' ' ■" Though hurting Eismond had not entered SenkovitohV. mind, suddenly ona. night came the • prompting to kill him — and get . his money. Eismond, rolled ial ' his blankets, was asleep. Senkovitch seized. a hatchet, struck him on the head:. - - many; times,- rolled'.the body out of ths tent, and throw it into the river. _ •■■■■■"