Negotiations between the father and the criminals were continued, Dut failed, owing to the father refusing to pay any money out until his son was safe in the house. On the morning of November 24, Kirlchen ko proposed that the prisoner should be released, and the others! having agreed to this, necessary pre-rations were made to leave for Harbin. "The criminals dined, and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon started drinking tes, and as the hut fu which they lived' was very small, they had to do his in turns. The last to drink was Kitichenko, Zaitset and Bezruchko standing close to him, and a little farther off were Bondarchuk and Galushko.
Suddenly the last named pulled out a mauser pistol and fired into the hut, the bullet hitting young' Kaspe in the forehead and killing him on the spot. The others were against such an" action, but as the prisoner had been killed, there was nothing else to be done except to ide the body.
The story of the finding of the! body has already been published throughout the world, as well as the fact that all the criminals had been arrested.
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