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Show vw MURDERER ILLS ' OF K CUES St. Petersburg, Feb. y. Dr. Pant-cheuko, Pant-cheuko, whose specialty, he admitu, has been the removal by poisoning of undesirable relatives and enemies, of those who could pay his fee, told at today's session of the murdor. trial how ho sccurod his instruments of death. The admissions were brought out in connection with the tostlmony of a medical witness. Pantchenko, in common with Count DeLassy, is charged with the murdor of DcLassy'c brother-in-law, Count Vnsslll Bouturliu the heir to several millions, which, it Is alleged, DeLassy coveted for his wife. The doctor has confessed that I3ou-turlin I3ou-turlin was tho most recent of some forty victims but claims that In this particular killing ho was under the hypnotic influence or IoLassy who, however, paid him for the job. Pan Ichenkn's income is said to have gone lo Madame Muravleff, and the latter has been mado a party to the pioceedings Dr. Henrich, a veterinary employed al the post laboratory" In Kronstadt, testified that the prisoner twice vlb-lted vlb-lted the laboratory where he obtained several tubes of cholera ondotoxine I which he represented were requiied for scientific purposes. At this point Pantchenko oxplnlned to the court that DeLassy had furnished fur-nished Him with money for tho trip lo Kronstadt find he added that he gave the tubes of poison to tHe count. Dr. Zabolothny, the plague expert, who recent! v returned from an inspection inspec-tion of China, was then reonlled. He testified that Pantchenko had applied ro him To, dlptherlal toxins Tho vilr-iip-h nar him diphthepnl culturo uuld. Lator he ascertained that the fluid lacked killing power, but thlc H was unknown to Panchenko. H The president of the court askef H tho prisoner what he did with tin. H fluid and the latter replied that ha H throw it away. H Another to whom Pantchenko wen( H for poison was Dr. ZedrezhekovskL H The latter testified that the doctol H came to the institute of experimental IH medicine and asked for diphtherial H toxine. The witness gave him several H assay tubes and told him the minimum H non-fatal dose. H The judge interrupted to inquire H what Pantchenko did with this supply H of poison. For a moment there war. H tense silence pk the court room as tlw H notorious mufdVrer hesitated. Flnall? H he evaded the question, saying h H would reply to it later. H A microscopical examination report nH of( tho contents of tho body of the vie- H tints was then laid before the court. H |