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Show Said to !av Put Forty Persons to Death Under Pay J t St. Petersbuig. Feb. 2. -.There was an unusual occurrence at today's session ses-sion of the trial for murder of Count O'Brien de Lassay amj the notorious 1 bolsoner, Dr. Panlcchenkn, tho latte llelng called on to plead a second timo. He pleaded guilty as before. I The count is accused of having employed em-ployed the doctor to murder Ills brother-in-law, Count Vassllli Boutur-I Boutur-I lin, the heir to estates of an estimated I value of $3,500,000, in order that the j property might be inherited by Count- ess De Lassay. Pantechcnko confessed his g"Ht, but 1 set up the defense that he had com-I com-I mltted the crime while under the liyp-! liyp-! notice influence (if the counL As the tria) progressed ho wavered in mat-I mat-I ters of detail and his lawyers were I quick to strengthen his original defense de-fense by declaring that their client was still under the Influence of the count. The whole cmuiie fs interested In tho case because of the wholesale confession made by Pantechcnko Every Ev-ery mysterious death in recent years is recalled and thore are rumors that the prisoner inay have been engaged to' causa the death of members of the royal family. He has admitted that ho made it business of, killing for hire, ' holrs, rivals' In love, insistent creditors credi-tors aud, in fact, any undesirable per- soils whose enemy was prepared to pav liberally for their sudden taking Off. The poison doctor, according to the police." has admitted some forty j deaths, his fees running as high as ; $250,000 for assassination. His meth-i meth-i od was to Inoculate the patlont with cholera or other bacilli nfter ho had been called to the bedside In his professional pro-fessional capacity. He is now credited cred-ited by some with having originated the cholera epidemic of a few years ago. Tho doctor Is 70 vears old and appears ap-pears to have had omo standing In society, despite his dual profession. Count De Lassay Is a young man of Irish descent The woman in the case Is Mme. Muravieff, with whom Pan-teehcnkio Pan-teehcnkio lodged, and to whom ho says he turned over his earnings. She figures in tho trial as an alleged accomplice. ac-complice. De Lassay is a cousin of Countess Tarnovska, who is serving a prison term In Italy for complicity in tho murder of her fiance, Count Koma-rowsky. Koma-rowsky. Count Bouturlin was 2G years old, tho son of General Bourlin, whose family fam-ily Is old and respected. |