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Updated: September 3, 2025
For these reasons he asked the jury to acquit Kartinkin and Bochkova of stealing the money; or, if they found them guilty of stealing he asked for a verdict of theft, but without participation in the poisoning, and without conspiracy.
"So the prisoner denies having had any intimate relations with Kartinkin? Very well, I have no more questions to ask." And the public prosecutor took his elbow off the desk, and began writing something.
The president repeated the question. Maslova stared at the public prosecutor, with a frightened look. "With Simeon? Yes," she said. "I should like to know what the prisoner's acquaintance with Kartinkin consisted in. Did they meet often?"
The prosecutor, elated by the successful verdict against Maslova, which he ascribed to his eloquence, consulted some books, then rose and said: "Simon Kartinkin, I think, should be punished according to chapter 1,452, sec. 4, and chapter 1,453; Euphemia Bochkova according to chapter 1,659, and Katherine Maslova according to chapter 1,454."
"At the autopsy held on the body of Smelkoff, and after the removal of the intestines, the presence of poison was readily discovered, leaving no doubt that death was caused by poisoning. "The prisoners, Maslova, Bochkova and Kartinkin pleaded not guilty.
When Kartinkin and Bochkova left the court-room she was still standing and crying, so that the gendarme had to touch the sleeve of her coat. "She cannot be left to her fate," said Nekhludoff to himself, entirely forgetting his evil thoughts, and, without knowing why, he ran into the corridor to look at her again.
Every one listened with an expression of respectful attention. The merchant, diffusing a smell of brandy around him, and restraining loud hiccups, approvingly nodded his head at every sentence. When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. "Simeon Kartinkin, rise." Simeon jumped up, his lips continuing to move nervously and inaudibly. "Your name?"
When an inventory of the property of the deceased was made, only 312 roubles and 16 copecks were found. In the portmanteau opened by the said Maslova, the said Botchkova and Kartinkin saw packets of 100-rouble bank-notes.
The foreman read the first question. "Well, gentlemen, what do you think?" This question was quickly answered. All agreed to say "Guilty," as if convinced that Kartinkin had taken part both in the poisoning and the robbery. The foreman thought he did not understand, and began to point out to him that everything tended to prove Kartinkin's guilt.
Kartinkin sat down as hurriedly as he had risen, wrapping his cloak round him, and again began moving his lips silently. "Your name?" asked the president, with a weary sigh at being obliged to repeat the same questions, without looking at the prisoner, but glancing over a paper that lay before him.
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