Show RUS RUSSIAN IAN THRILL SlA 4 PRIS N Leningrad Schoolgirl and Accomplice Kill Chum With Flatiron By EUGENE LYONS United Press Press' Staff Correspondent MOSCOW May 18 15 United Press A. A A pretty and precociously clever girl ori Zoe Pavlova who murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered her best friend for tor th the thrill of It HI was was was' the protagonist of a strange tragedy of twisted emotion played out out to to a tragic finish In ina a a. Leningrad high school ool The TIle gruesome story was spread on record at a trial recently at the conclusion of ot which Zoe Zoo was sentenced sentenced sen- sen to ten years years years' imprisonment and her a accomplice Zinaide Ivanova Ivanova Ivan- Ivan ova 0 to three years In view of f their youthfulness and their apparently s sincere ere repentance the CO court re reduced reduced re- re these terms to five and two respectively years My Iy Iy life Ute was gray and tedious Zoe Zoo explained at tho the trial In re recounting recounting recounting re- re counting the origin o of tho the crime I I thirsted for s strong rong experiences for deep emotions She decided to draw Anna nna Zhu- Zhu kova her best friend and an ex exceptionally ei- ei attractive girl Into her schemes for or m making king life me more sUn sUn- Together they induced a aboy aboy aboy boy one ono year their senior George Lensky to join th them m. m They banded themselves into a trio of avengers ers pledged t to stop at nt nothing in their quest for tor joy and thrill The pledge was embodied in a formal oath which which all three signed with their own blood To prove prove their earnestness they agreed that must commit at least ono murder murd by October 1928 LITERARY TALENTS To Ama and George all of It was ft-was was exciting play acting a a. new game But B not for Zoe Zoo Her diary read into the record reveals ho hoW v she h he was stirred by the Idea of of taking human life Incidentally that diary stood as proof of the girls girl's unusual literary talents A boy by the tIle name of tt was picked a as the first victim He lie Ie was well dressed with rings on his liis fingers ingers and therefore to the childish conspirators a fit subject for murder and loot In accordanCe accordance accordance accord accord- ance with Zoes Zoe's Instructions noff neff was lured to a schoolroom He lIe was elaborately flattered and ent entertained enter enter- i- i tamed and antI mado made a little drunk Then Zoo Zoe brought in the tho a ax X x with ith he ho was to te be decapitated At this point Anna and George quit the game Possibly they lost nerve possibly they had never never seriously se seriously seriously se- se se- se intended to to- togo go through with it Zoo Zoe was furious Little did her friend dream that in saving noff neff she was s sealing aUng her own doom In that moment of frustration Zoe decided that Anna must pay with her het own life for such cowardice and treachery George Georg she felt was wa unduly under er Annas Anna's Influence e and therefore not culpable Perhaps too jealousy on account of this power poyer ot or Anna over George entered Into her feelings though she denied it at the trial FINDS AN ACCOMPLICE In search of ot an a accomplice Anna discovered Zinaide a cl classmate whose face had been disfigured by byan byan byan an accident as as a child Zinaide was flattered d by bytho the tho sudden attentions of ot the brilliant Zoe and became passionately passionately pas pas- attached to her In the tho meantime Zoe continued her friendship friendship friend friend- ship with Anna as though no murderous murderous mur mur- derous plans were in her mind Zoes Zoe's parents were away and the three girls gathered to chat In Inevitably Inevitably Inevitably In- In a quarrel l developed be between pe e tween Anna and Zinaide This was the signal for tor a combined attack on Anna They beat her skull in i with a marble candlestick and when life persisted tried to finish her by stabbing in the throat with witha a p pair ir of scissors When this did not suffice they used a pressing iron The demoniac job took them theman an hour When it was over over Zoe Zoo told the court I felt relieved As S if it a weight eight had lad bee been lifted from my ply spirit My unnatural craving for human blood had been satisfied |