Two Russian convicts—one of them serving a twelve-year sentence for attempted murder—were at large in Shanghai yesterday after their escape, late on Tuesday night, from the French Municipal Jail in Rue Stanislas Chevalier, near the Lokawei Police Station.
The two men escaped from the cell they were sharing, on the first floor of the prison, by making a hole in the brick wall (south side) and placing a board taken from one of the beds so as to make a bridge io the outer wall. From the top of ihe outer wall they lowered themselves to Rue Stanislas Chevalier by means of blankets and sheets tied together. Apparently they fled on loot after reaching the street.
The time of the escape was about When the deed was dis-the men were already sufficiently far away to elude capture.
The principal of the two fugitives is one Victor Borissenko (also known as Victor P. Krote), aged 25, who was serving a term of twelve years as a result of his conviction, in the Second Special District Court, of an attempt t" murder a Polish citizen named Bouyanovitch in Avenue Joffre last January 30. Borissenko was found guilty in February.
Young House-Breaker The other man is Eugene Dolgoff, aged about 18, who was serving a sentence of three years and two months for house-breaking. Dolgoff was convicted, also in the Second Special District Court, in December, 1£36. He had previously been arrested ior theft.
French and Settlement police were combing various neighbourhoods last night in an effort to trace the. two fugitives. Detectives visited places where Russians of the criminal type are wont to foregather, but up to a late hour no arrest had been made.
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