EXTRAORDINARY CRIME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 50, 24 March 1909, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY CRIME.

SCHOOLGIKL MUKDEIiED. AN INFATUATED KUSSJAN. An extraordinary crime is reported in the Sau Erancisco papers, just to hand. While on her way to school ou February 12, a 10-year-ohl girl, Dorothy Malakanoli, was shot and almost instantly kill ed by Demetri Tresheuko, a and a rejected suitor, 48 years oi age. The girl fell to the ground as two bullets tore into her breast, her school books falling from her arms around the body. She expired without an outcry, 'lite murderer then turned the revolver upon himself, and drove a bullet into the left side of his head. The murder came as a tragic end to a persistent effort 011 Tres- , heuko's part to wn\ the little girl's love and persuade her to elope with him. The man's attention to the young schoolgirl were discouraged by her parents, and 011 one occasion the Russian was forced by the police to leave the neighbourhood. Treshenko was standing on the corner when the girl came along l'otrero Avenue, fending himself from the pouring rain with an unbrclfa. As the child neared him lie stepped forward, shutting off the two from the gaze of the bystanders. He bent down and asked her again if she would leave with him. The child shook her head, and told him to let her go, as she would be late at school. Treshenko then thrust an arm around her and with the other drew a revolver, and placed it against the child's back, while she struggled to free herself. The girl fell to the sidewalk with a bullet lodged near the heart and another in the lungs. Treshenko stood a moment looking at her, and then placed the revolver against his head, driving a bullet through the skull. He fell to the walk beside the girl. Treshenko often took the little schoolgirl whom he murdered about town, before her parents forced him to discontinue his attention to he", and went, several times with the? child to Priest's photograph gallery iu Mission Street, wuere pictures of the two were made separately and together, with Trcshenkos arm about the girl.