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Updated: May 26, 2025
Is the meschanka Euphemia Ivanovna Botchkova, 43 years of age, guilty of the crimes described above? Is the meschanka Katerina Michaelovna Maslova, 27 years of age, guilty of the crimes described in the first question?
The answer to the second question concerning Botchkova was, after much dispute and many exclamations, answered by the words, "Not guilty," there being no clear proofs of her having taken part in the poisoning a fact her advocate had strongly insisted on. The merchant, anxious to acquit Maslova, insisted that Botchkova was the chief instigator of it all.
When Kartinkin and Botchkova went out she still sat crying, so that a gendarme had to touch the sleeve of her cloak. "No; it is impossible to leave it as it is," said Nekhludoff to himself, utterly forgetting his bad thoughts. He did not know why he wished to look at her once more, but hurried out into the corridor. There was quite a crowd at the door.
Articles of material evidence to be sold, the ring to be returned, the phials destroyed." Botchkova was condemned to prison, Simeon Kartinken and Katerina Maslova to the loss of all special rights and privileges and to penal servitude in Siberia, he for eight and she for four years. Kartinkin stood holding his arms close to his sides and moving his lips. Botchkova seemed perfectly calm.
At first she cried, but then quieted down and sat perfectly stunned in the prisoners' room, waiting to be led back. She wanted only two things now tobacco and strong drink. In this state Botchkova and Kartinkin found her when they were led into the same room after being sentenced. Botchkova began at once to scold her, and call her a "convict." "Well!
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