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X LIVED BY BLOOD The Horrifying Confessions of an Old Russian Physician. MURDER WAS HIS TRADE uJT-orty Doaths Laid at Ills Door?no f Made t'so of Diptlieria and <>Iiol era Germs to Accomplish His Ends.?Now lleiiig Tried for Kilting a Nobleman. The trial of Dr. Ivan Pantchenko, the physician whose profession was murder, for the death of Count Vassili Rauturlin by the injection of diptheria germs, is still occupying the center of the stage in St. Petersburg, with the ripples of excitement extending past the shores of Europe and even touching America. The crime for which the physician 1? being tried, the murder of Count Pouturlin, one of the most craftily-planned and cold-blooded in the history of Russia, is only a drop in the bucket compared with the numerous oth er Killing me noreu doctor huh confessed tr> and which he has subsequently denied, but which will probably be fastened to him by the prosecution. lie was a murderer by profession; a man who carefully planned each of his crimes and then carried them through to a successful completion for a certain amount of money. Artistic murders, singly, or in blocKs, have been his specialty. Russia has j produced many famous criminals, j and during the reigns of some of i her monarchs marvelous crimes have been committed there. But never in recorded history has one man done such wholesale slaughter by such scientific met hods. Dr. Pantchenko, who is 70 years old, confessed to causing 40 deaths by means of inoculation. Tie h is done it all for hire and his fees have run into the millions. lie has used the germs of many deadly maladies and every mysterious death of recent years is now laid at his door. His trail leads even into the palace of the czar and members of the royal family have been his victims In his awful work he has employed the germs of the dreaded scourge of Russia, the cholera. He is even credited with having been responsible for the terrible epidemic that lias cut down thousands from the Raltic to the Mack Sea within the last few years. He has removed heirs who were in the way of others. Ho has slain lovers at the behest of rivals. lie has stopped effectually the importunities of insistent creditors. In short., wherever a man lias had an enemy and could nay to have him killed Dr. Pantchenko has been open to hire. Was Xcvcr Suspected. His method have b *on of a nature that tended to shield him from even the breath of suspicion. To insure his own safety it was necessary that hla Intonded victim should bo ill ano that ho should bo called to attend him. This usually was simple, because of his reputation as a learned and skillful physician. Once at the bedside it was an easy matter to administer hypodermically the germs of eholera, diptherea or some other fatal disease. He e>:plained in court that he never steril^ izod his hypodermic syringe because ; that would diminish the effectiveness of the spermo preparation and leave ' a chance that the victim might recover. 1 The specific charge upon which the aged physician is being tried is the murder of Baron. Ivan Vassili Buturlin. He confessed this deed anion* others, hut later he retracted this confession and said that he had been ( induced to make it by inducements i held out to him by the examining ' magistrate at the original Inquiry. I However, the prosecution is having 1 vV very little trouble fastening the crime upon him. * Back of Dr. Pantchenko in the I3u- i turlin case?and, the poisoner says, 1 in all the other murders he has com- 1 mltted?stands a figure that is even < more terrible to the Russian imagi- < nation than that of the aged poison- < er because of the dread, mysterious 1 power that it represents. Tt. is that < of Count Patrick O'Brien de Lassy, who is Jointly accused with Pant- f Ik chonko of the murder of Buturlln. i His was the brain, the doctor says, i that planned the horrible deeds; lits i was the hand that shared the pro- f * - -1 tlilm omnnnlnd tlir? s CCOUH, UIIU in/in linn ^ strange, hypnotic influence which < sent the poisoner to the sick-beds t of his victims and kept him at his t work of butchery. ( Cowering with fear as his glance i rested on Count de Lassy in court c Pantchonko pointed him out as the Sevengali whose mind had directed f his crimes and held him in hypnotic c subjection. Because of this electa- f ration of the prosecutions of the 1 two men have been separated. \ Seven Deaths Necessary. c The motive which actuated Pant- 1 chenko and de Lassy in the murder j of Baron Buturlin was the same as r in all the other cases?money. The ( baron was the second son of Gen. v Gururlin. who was immensely weal- \ thy. Count do Lassy was a son-in-.s law. J i The general's eldest son had ang- c THE WAGES OF SiN CROOK FACES POOUHOU8E AFTER YEARS OP CRIME. J!c is .Set Free From Prison in His Oi<! Aj?e, Hroken in Health and Spirits. Hroken in health and spirit by con flnement in the federal prison at McNeil's island, Wash., where lie served four terms, Lawrence (Larry) Kelly, declared by customs ollicers to be the shrewdest and most daring opium smuggler they have encountered on Paget sound during the last three decades, was turned adrift a few days ago. He is 73, his strength is wasted, his nerve is gone and he is without a dollar. Unless former accomplices come to his aid with part of the fortune he made for them at th# risk of his life and freedom, it is likely the veteran will pass the rest of his days in a poorhouso. "Square" With His Hackers. Kelly's smuggling days are ovei. He is a broken down sailor. He is under the surveillance of customs oflicials and will be followed by them to the grave. He never confessed or implicated others and he had the reputation of being "square'' with those who profited by his traffic though he had opportunities to fleece Mi em whenever he brought a sloop) load of contraband goods into tlio j country. Smuggling always appealed to Kelly as a game of chance, to he indulged in only for the excitement and the { satisfaction of eluding the ofllcers. Ho did not sail under the black flag for the profit and it is known that be never fired a shot or harmed an> : one. Worked I lie Canadian Horder. Kelly was successful in many of j Iris adventures between the Canadian shores and the mainland in Wa?h-j ington and Oregon, and it is believ- j ed he smuggled several hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of contraband goods, including opium into the United States during the last lb yea rs. lie always worked alone, and. though deserted when arrested the last time, ho would give not the least inkling as to who financed the expeditions or who assisted him. He said little at the trial and was convicted following a brief hearing, and onn t r* a I Ii'r\ uao d v~ j i tu J i v< V/ * t i.w oui > u u vi u ,r vci I n, When opium began pouring into the country from over the British C.olun*y>ia border, J'or months the customs inspectors sea relied the country in an effort to trace the smuggler. Finally one overheard a conversation between two prosperous business men at Olyinpia, the capital of Washington. Kelly was caught with the goods and arrested. * ^ ? ? POISOX I'LOT FOIIilOS). .? t'andy and Cakes for Children C011taiued Arsenic. An attempt to poison the famiiv of David i). Moon, of Groensbur.?, I'a., has been discovered and an investigation is being made. Several weeks ago the children of Mr. Moon picked up a hag of candy which they found on the porch of their home. Their mother would not allow them to eat if, and when the father came home he threw it into the stove. Last week there was a similar instance, the children finding a bag on the porch containing cakes. This time, tlie father growing suspicion, the cakes were turned over to \V. F. Elwood, a clmmist, who found they contained arsenic. The fiends were foiled. * Tank Kills Two. At Memphis two negroes were killed and one white man and a thiru negro had narrow escapes Friday when an iron water tank fell through | the roof of the Navelty Candy Company. * 'red his father by his marriage to a music hall dancer, and the general bad announced that the second son, was playing with it. he baron, would inherit his estate , )f nearly $4,000,000. The plan was ( o remove the baron so that the millions would ,eo to the daughter, 3ount de Lassy's wife. ?Tt was necessary to make a clean i ?weep, however, and this involved ( lot. only the deaths of the general i md the baron, but also of the gen- ; aral's secbnd wife and his oldest < *on, Count Buturlin. Pantchenko 1 wid that his bargain with de T,assy ailed for the payment of $5,000 for 1 he death of the count, $25,000 for ? he death of Gen. Buturlin, $250 , \ )00 for the death of the second wife < md another $250,000 for the death I if the baron. Tn his confession Dr. Pantchenko t laid (hat he had inoculated the bar- i >n with diptheria bacili. He had at l lrst. intended lo use cholera germs, mt (he nature of (he actual illness, vhich was slight, caused him to de ide that diptheria gertns would be ess likely to be discovered. The iroseeution has proved that the bar>n really died from the effects of | liptberia and Pantchenko will protv ihiy receive a death sentence for his vork. Just, now the efforts of the late are being concentrated in con-j looting Count de Lassy with the J t irime. * i THEY MUST QUIT The L*2:s?atiye Joint Committee Makes Report oo Trustets. HOLDING TWO OFFICES They Are Condemned in the lleport ainl tlie Attorney-General is Asked to Make Investigation?Tlie Heport Was Adopted by the Senate and the House. Deciding that the trusteeship of any of the institutions of learning of the State is an office of trust the holding of which precludes one from holding another office of trust at the same time, the special commission appointed by the eeaerki assembly to investigate the holding of such offices, Friday night reported to the two houses. The report names B. R. Tillman, senator from South Carolina; John G. Richards' Jr., railroad commissioner, and Robert McFarland, judge of probate of Darlington counly, as trustees of State institutions who are holding other offices contrary t) the constitution. The commission consists of Senator W. L. Maul din, chairman; Senator LeGrand (I Walker, T. I'. Brown, Geo. S. Mower, Frank B. Gary. The report of <he commission says: The Report. The special commission appointed bv the two bouses in accordance with the provisions of a concurrent resolution. "That a commission of five bo appointed, throe from ihe house and two from the sen-lie, t.c investigate and report back to this general assembly, during this session, the trustees of the various educational institutions of this Stale, who are serving without, com missions, and also those who are holding other positions of public trust of this State contrary to the constitution of this State, begs leave to report that it has duly investigated the matters referred to it. "Your commission decided that under the terms of the concurrent, resolution its investigation was lim ited to those who are trustees of the various edu/qational institutions oi the State, and has confined its investigations to such persons. Your comm J 1 f no b n e e n 11 n'li t i n 'i t f iv\nt i r i i i ii(in rivus'i'- iiiiwi iiicii iuji i i vui such sources as it deemed proper. " \s we understand the concurrent resolution our duly was to investigate and report: "(1) The trustees of the various educational institutions of the State who are serving without commissions : "(2) Those trustees who are holding other positions of public trust of this Slate controry to the constitution of the State. "Your committee is of the opinion t)iat those trustees who are exofficio members of the several hoards are not violating any ronstitutionai inhibition when so serving and we dem it unnecessary to name those in that category. "As coming within the category of those who are serving without commission your committee would name the following: The Trustees. "Trustees of Winthrop College who have not. been commissioned. Tlon. W. J. Roddey, Hon. J. E. Brcazeale, Hon. Wilic Jones and Hon. B. It. Tillman; "Trustees of Clemson Agricultural College who have not been commissioned: Hon. John O. Richards. Jr., Hon. Coke D. Mann, Hon. B. If. Ra wl. "Trustees of University of South Carolina who have not been commissioned: Hon. Robt. McFarland. "As to the inquiry as to what truster's nro holding; other nositions of public trust of this State contrary to the constitution of the State your committee would report that after mature deliberation it is of the opinion, generally speaking, that the trusteeship of any of the institutions of learning of the State is an office of trust, the holding of which precludes one from holding another office of trust at the same time. "Having reached this conclusion your committee is of the opinion that John G. Richards, Jr., who is an elected trustee of Clemson agricultural college and also railroad commissioner of this State is holding I one or the other of said offices con-:' trary to the constitution of the Stale. "That. R. R. Tillman, trustee of ! W1nth.ro p college and also United ' States senator from South Carolina, . Is holding one or the other of saio ! )fTiro? contrary to the constitution of 1 the State. I< "That Robt. \TcFarland, who is < trustee of the South Carolina University, is also probate judge of Dar- 1 lington county, is holding one or the ( ithor of said ofTices contrary to the 1 constitution of the State. > Idfe Trustees. "Your committee has given mueh / bought, to the question of whether jl lr not the life trmuee of Clemson i 'olloge, are in the same category a> < rusteos elected by the general as-, s <emhly or their officers. Some oi < pour committee have grave doubts 1 lpon this point. It is a question < hat ought to he definitely a <d fin- 1 illy settled. It can only ho do- t BOY SHOOTS BOY BOTH WERE IX LOVE WITH THE SAME YOl'NG WOMAN. Shooting Took Place Just ua the Boy Who Got Shot Was Entering a (jute. Will Carter, a young white boy about 17 years of age, lies dawer ously wounded at his home in Bangley, and another young whjte boy, about 1G years of age, is in the Aiken jail, charged with the shooting. From information that could be gathered Thursday morning, it seems that Walter Cowens and Wi" Carter were in love with the same young lady, who was about their age, or younger, and that Cowens, taking exception to the attention paid her by Will Carter, shot Carter in the back and side. Cowens boards at a home in Burnett town, and it was at this house that Carter was calling. He started there Wednesday night, and shout 8 o'clock opened the gate and started in. Cowens, seeing him coining, picked up a shotgun and fired at Carter. The load took effect in the side and back. Carter was only about ten yards from Cowens when the shot, was fired, and the wound is a very serious one. Wednesday night the wounded boy was resting well as could bo expected. Co wen s in jail was interviewed by The News and Courier correspondent. Tie says that Carter had. been threatening him for the past few days, and that on Tuesday 11 iedit, had made' threats at liini as if to draw his pistol; that he saw him coming into the house last night, and that he picked up his gun and fired at him. lie says he shot Carter in the hack, just as lie was latching the gate. TTe also said that Carter was mad with him about something that he had said about a young lady. it may bo stated that Carter lias served several years in the State Reformatory. Cowens is in knee pants, and when seen in jail was pitiful in appearance. Fight Men Fly. At Pan, France, last week, M. Lamartin. one of the best known of French aviators, flew with seven passengers in a monoplane for a period of five minutes, creating a new world's record. The total weight carried was 1,042 pounds. * .? Guards ller Children. Rats are so numerous in the Children's home in Kansas City, Kan., that. Mrs. Julian Davis, the matron, is compelled to sit up at night, to keep them away from the sleeping Cjliildren. The rats have invaded the home from an old building nearby, formerly used as a county ju'.!.* termined by a tribunal whose province it is under the law to determine legal euestions. Your committee therefore recommends the adoption of the accompanying concui rout resolution directing the attorney general of the State to insti tute quo warranto proceedings, o? such proceedings as in his judgment are proper, before a proper tribunal for the purpose of determining whether or not a life trusteeship of CI em son Agricultural College is an office of honor or profit, or whether it is an office or position of profit or trust under this State, the United States of America or any of them or under any other power. Until tins question shall have been finally determined in the manner sugg'-'eo it will he a constantly rocu ling source of annoyance to tlie people of the State and to those who are holding such trusteeships, and an olfict at the same time, besides under the honest belief that they are not violating the law. "Your committee, composed of laymen and lawyers, does not undertake to decide tin's purely legal question, hut for the purposes above indicated it reports that Alan Johnstone is a life trustee of Clemson Agricultural College and also State senator from Newberry county, and that R. R. Tillman is a life trustee of demons agricultural college and also United States senator from South Carolina." The Resolution. The following is the concurrent resolution the commission attached to its report: "That the attorney general of the State is hereby authorized and directed to institute in the name of the State quo warranto proceedings, of such other proceedings as in his judgment may he proper, before a proper tribunal, for the purpose of determining whether or not a life trusteeship of Clemson agricultural j r?r\l 1 It o will /\ f t Itn Into I i i/iic^v 11 11 * i \ i iii* ?? iii vi i t n v itiiv Thomas G. Clemson is an office of honor or profit, or whether it is an office or position of profit or trust within (ho meaning of the State constitution under this Stat , or the United States of America, or any ither power, and if so, whether a lerson holding such life trusteeship s inhibited under the constitution : >f tliis State from holding at the ?ame time anv other ofhee of honor . >r profit, and especially whether \ icrson canl>o a member of the gen-' ?ral assembly of South Carolina while holdin- a life trusteeship on ho Clemson agricultural coliego." * MAKES A FIGHT Congressmai Lever Weuld Curtail passes of the German Trust. WILL HUNT FOR POTASH Fiovor Has the Agricultural Appropriation Hill Amended, Providing $<2,500 for Investigating to Determine Whether or Not Potash Deposits Kxist in this Country. Congressman Lever on Friday secured an amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill, providing that the Secretary of Agriculture shall, at an expense of not over $12,500, make investigation in the United States to ascertain if there are potash deposits in this country. Germany now has an entire monopoly in this trade and we buy from them anually $8,000 worth. There is very little actual and possible knowledge regarding deposits of potash in the United States in commercial quanitites, for the reason that, no serious attempt, has bet n made ot locate them. The German v:ii :mi1 v liiiu nlwnvs li?ii?n *ivntlnl?lr? and, while the present trust or syndicate methods have long been so shadowed, it is not until the present that we have been forced to make ourselves independent of Germany, flow Potash Penned. Potash is the result of centuries of leaching through feldspar and lies a great depths. There is every reason to believe that in t lie sings of the Western States and in the desert country, where feldspar abounds, potasli may and will be discovered through proper investigation. No systematic work has been undertaken on any adequate scale. Germany has spent immense sums in exploration, the result being her present monopoly of the world's supply. One company invested $1,500,000 in fruitless work and another has a cash capital of $2,3 80,000 for such exploration. To-day Germany lias $250,000,000 profitably employed in the working of its potash mines. Mr. Lover's Statement. \rr. Lever said: "This amendment, if adopted, will effect a very important piece of work to the peo pie of the United States, and especially those engaged in agriculture. The purpose of the amendment is to authorize the department of agriculture to make investigations throughout the country in an effort to locate potash and nitrite deposits. "These gentlemen of the committee will understand that the people of the United States consume commercial fertilizers to the amount oi 0 ! 1* 0.0 00,000 every year, and of this amount SS,000,000 of it is oxpendeo for potash alone. The gentlemen will also remember that a complete commercial fertilizer consists of certain proportions of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. \itrogeti from Chile. "The bulk of the nitrogen of the country used for fertilizer purposes comes from Chile. Almost (he entire amount of potash consumed in (his country, in fact all of it, comes from Germany. The fact is that Oermany has a complete monopui.v Upon (he potash 'business of the world, and the people of (he United States are absolutely dependent ii|v on (he German people for their supply of potash, one of the essential ingredients of a complete commercial fertilizer. "I do not intend at this time to discuss this controversy, though it is my purpose later to have some* thing to say about it and to ascertain. if possible, the reasons for the delay of the State department in brin ring about a settlement of it. It was this controversy which directed my attention to the fact that the people of the United States, the greatest agricuutural people in tlu. world, were absolutely dependent upon a foreign nation for their supply of one of the essential ingredients of a commercial fertilizer. Holieves Prospects Favorable. , ,4T am satisfied that the prospects for locating pjotash deposits and nitrates in this country are favorable. The expenditure authorized by this amendment is only $12,500. It may be that nothing will he accomplished by the investigation set on foot by fbis authority, but oven if we do not discover any deposits of nitrates or potash in this country, 1 think it well worth the while that the investigation should he made, so as to settle the question for onoe and for all. i "If there are such deposits in this country, if the investigation provi < conclusively that they can locate . those mines, it moans a world of good to the entire people of the Un- I ited States." * 1 i Overrun \\ itli Ilohhers, A dispatch from Amory, China, *ays the surrounding country Is ov- 1 errun with hards of armed robbers and the bolder have ventured in;o the heart of that city, terrorizing 1 the Inhabitants. The authorities have adopted strong measures to suppress the on'l wrv and four robbers were beheaded. The famine has made thousands of men desper- i ate. > * i MANY llSt M DKUG ? ? CHARLESTON POLICE WAGE WAli ON USERS OF COCAINE. Tlie Unusual Number of Drug Fiend Cases Mas Aroused the Oillclals of the City. seldom has there neon as muca cocaine using in the city as \vas evidenced by the police docket Monday morning, says The News and Cc iter. Most of the cases were summanl) dealt with by Recorder Jersey, while two were continued, pending the result of an investigation of the drug found on two of the prisoners. Dr. F. L. Parker has been authorized to analyze the drug, as the prisoners in question dairy, that they did not have cocaine, stating that the drug found on their persons is not wnat is known among the criminal classes as "happy dust." The police are much wrought up over the increase in the pernicious practice of the drug using, and they state that most of the crimes committed in the city are either directly or indirectly due to this drug. They are all under strict orders from Chief Povle to arrest all offenders, and to instantly apprehend anyone who gives indications of having b?*en using the dust. The use of the drug is not cor fined to the negro population, as a glance at the list of those arrested will aliow. Several while men are said to have become notorious in the coy from this drug, while th'ero are one or two negroes, one of whom is a woman, who are arrested about once every week. .lust how the people obtain tiio drug is not known, but from all indications there is an easy method of getting it. The police and the detectives on the force are endeavoring to learn the headquarters for the sale of the stuff, hut so far liavo not been very successful. However, they are in hopes of making so unimportant arrests in the cocaine lino in the near future. Alfred Coleman, a young white man, who was arrested late Saturday night for using cocaine, was released on deposit of $75 bail. As he failed to appear yesterday morning for trial the bail was declared forfeited. .1. \V. Cox. white, who is well known to the police, was also arrested for having cocaine on his person. Mis case has been continued, pending Or. Parker's investigation. Another white man, G. D. Izard, was convicted of having cocaine on his person, and was sentenced to pay a $75 line or serve thirty days on the gang. The case against Fred Campbell, colored, who was arrested on the same charge, was continued, as the drug which was found in his clothes, is being analyzed by Dr. Parker. Practically all of the changes against the prisoners are entered as, "Having cocaine on the person," as the charge of cocaine using has to ho proved, and that is found very dalien It. To be convicted of usin?* the drug, the criminal has to he caught in the very act of taking a dose. It is hoped that tho practice of using cocaine ill he reduced to a minimum within a reasonably short time.. ? ? MILLIONS AUK STAKVINO. Inhabitants of Famine Districts Dislike Flies. ? Unless relieved 2,000,000 peop'e in China will die of starvation. This is a calamity predicted by 'Mr. Wilder, American consul general at Shanghai, in a cablegram received from him by the American National Rod Cross society. In describing the pitiful condition Mr. Wilder says the scenes in the famine district are horrifying. Children are being given away by the afflicted people and the dead lie by the road side. In a mail report to the state department dated December 30, from Mr. Calhoun, American minister at Peking, it is stated that the number of sufferers in two provinces?Kiangau and Anhui?is not less than 3,000,000. The minister estimates that 2,000,000 gold dollars will bo required to provide relief. * HOY OF P/LKVKN IS l>KO\\'NKl>. Wither Asleep or Wise in a Delirium of Fever. Tuesday evening at about 7 o'clock at Arlington, a mill village, t vo iniIos from Oreer, Dewey llitt, aged 11, son of J. W. Mitt, either in a deep sleep or delirium, walked into Vpalachee pond and was drowned. The boy had been siok all the afternoon and eomi ! ned of bemt, very warm. About 7 o'clock he was missed from his room. A shrill cry was heard. On going o;:t to investigate nothing eould he found of tno child. He was tracked to the incline where tb.o water was 1feet deep. 1'be body was not recovered unt?l ler 10 o'clock. * Sailors Drowned. The Russian bark Olenbank was wrecked off Cossack, \nstralla, i* r? day. and all except one of the crew of thirty were lost.