Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-24 | Page 4 | Assassin's Bullet Kills Ex Czarist, Inventor of Military Devices

Assassins Assassin's Bullet Kills Ex-Czarist Ex Inventor of Military Devices NEW YORK Feb 24 UP Michael UP-Michael Michael Borislavsky 55 former colonel in the czarist Russian army and inventor of military de devices devices devices de- de vices reported to be under study by the war department was found dead on a sidewalk early Monday shot through the eye i He lay Jay face down beside the wall surrounding the convent of the Sacred Heart His spectacles lay My near by At first it was believed belie he had fallen after a heart attack and his hi breaking spectacles had cut his eye ere Not until a medical examiner made an investigation at atthe atthe atthe the morgue was it discovered that he had a bullet hole in the back of ofUs his Us head Then it became evident that he had been shot while wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing the spectacles The right lens was sm smashed hed and fragments of ot glass were found in the bullet- bullet pierced eye The bullet had emerged through the back of the head No gun or bullet was S found at the scene The case recalled the fatal shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing in a e. Washington hotel Feb Feb- 10 of General Walter K I Krivitsky former chief of the soviet military intelligence for western Europe and author of a series serles of magazine articles purporting purporting purporting pur pur- porting to expose soviet espionage Washington police articles called Krivitsky's death a suicide but buthis buthis buthis his friends including his attorney Louis Insisted that he had been murdered red by the soviet secret police Police believed there here was as no connection between the two deaths however They did at attach attach attach at- at tach significance to an anonymous warning which Borislavsky's wife said he had received in the mail mall three years ago She said he ignored the warning but detectives were Inclined to believe belleve It ft tant Borislavsky's wife a e. hospital said he had left home for tor a stroll end that she had given him 35 cents Eleven cents was found on his body Mrs Borislavsky said her husband husband husband hus hus- band had no enemies so far as she knew sh She said he h-e came to the United States StattS In 1921 was naturalized naturalized naturalized as soon as possible and that he had a G. degree from Columbia university hete hefe