THREE POISONERS.
SENTENCEU TO DEATH. A CELL TRAGEDY. Received Jane 6, 1 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 6. Dr Pantolenko has confessed that ne injected into Colonel Bonturlin's veins, at Lyassy's instigation, vegetable poison. The three murderers of Bontnrlin, who was heir to £700,000, were court martialled and sentenced to death. They were confined in Cherintor Gaol after the sentence, and in the cell they drew lots as to which of then should strangle his companions and then suicide. The one then chosen killed his two accomplices,but shrank from suicide, and will be shot.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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93THREE POISONERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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