Chapter 13 part one - ten

The full text of the indictment is as follows: "On January 17, 188X, a passenger at the Moore Hotel died suddenly. It was found that the passenger was the Kurgan second-class businessman Ferabont Yemilyanich Smerikov. "According to the forensic examination of the Fourth Police Station, the death was caused by excessive drinking and heart failure. Smelkov's body was immediately buried in the ground. "A few days after the incident, Timoxin, a good friend of Smerikov's hometown, came back from Petersburg and learned of Smerikov's death. Someone was suspected of murder.

"With regard to this suspicion, the following facts have been established by the preliminary examination: (1) Smerikov had withdrawn cash from the bank for 3,800 rubles in silver shortly before his death. However, only 310 rubles in cash were listed in the list of the deceased's belongings. Two rubles and sixteen kopeks. (2) The day before Smerikov died, he spent a whole day and night with the prostitute Liubov (Ekaterina Maslova) in a brothel and a Moor hotel. Yekaji Lina Maslova, who was entrusted by Smerikov to go from the brothel to the Moor Hotel to withdraw money, was used by this Maslova together with Yefemia Bochkova and Simon Karzinkin, the waiters of the Moor Hotel. Smelkov gave her the key, opened the suitcase, and took out the cash. When Maslova opened the suitcase, Bauchkova and Karzinkin saw that there were several stacks of hundred-ruble banknotes in the suitcase. (3) Smelkov After returning to the Moore Hotel from the brothel with the prostitute Maslova, Maslova was encouraged by the waiter Karzinkin to mix the white powder given by her into a glass of brandy and make Smelkov drink it. (4) The next day In the morning, the prostitute Maslova sold a diamond ring from Smelkov to the hostess, the brothel owner and witness Kidayeva, claiming that the ring was a gift from Smelkov. (5) Smeliko On the second day after her husband's death, Yefemia Bochkova, the waitress of the Moor Hotel, went to the local commercial bank and deposited eighteen hundred silver rubles in her checking account.

"After the forensic doctor dissected the corpse and tested the internal organs, it was found that there was indeed poison in the body of the deceased, which is sufficient to conclude that Smerikov died of poisoning. "The defendants Maslova, Bochkova and Karzinkin pleaded not guilty at the trial. Maslova testified that Smelkov had indeed ordered her to come to the brothel where she so-called 'worked' The Moore Hotel took money for the merchant, and he opened the suitcase with the key given to him, and took out forty silver rubles as instructed. They were both present at the time when they were withdrawing money, withdrawing money, and locking the box. Maslova also confessed that after she went to the businessman Smelikov's room for the second time, she was indeed instigated by Karzinkin to drink brandy mixed with medicinal powder, thinking that This medicinal powder is a sleeping pill, which makes the merchant fall asleep after taking it, so that he can get out early. The ring was indeed a gift from the merchant Smelkov. Because he was beaten by the merchant, cried bitterly, and wanted to leave, the merchant gave him this ring. gift.

"Efemia Bochkova confessed that she knew nothing about the loss of money, that she never entered the businessman's room, and that Maslova was the only one who did all the deeds, so if the businessman was stolen The affair must have been caused by Maslova seeking money when she took the merchant's key to withdraw money." Hearing this, Maslova shuddered all over, opened her mouth, and glanced back at Bauchkova. "When the court showed Yefimia Bochkova a deposit slip for eighteen hundred silver rubles and inquired about the source of the deposit, she stated that it was the accumulated income of her and Simon Karzinkin over twelve years. And she was going to marry Simon Karzinkin. According to Simon Karzinkin's first trial, Maslova came to the hotel from the brothel with the key, instigated him and Bochkova to steal cash together, and then the three shared the spoils. At this Maslova shuddered again, even jumped up, blushed, and muttered something, but was stopped by the magistrate. "In the end Karzinkin also confessed that he had given the powder to Maslova to put the businessman to sleep; but in the second interrogation he overturned the previous confession, claiming that he had not participated in the case of seeking wealth, nor had he given the powder to Maslova. As for the part of Bochkova’s deposit in the bank, he and Bochkova’s confession is the same, claiming that it was obtained by the two of them as servants in the hotel for twelve years. tip."

Next, the indictment lists the defendant's confrontation records, witness statements, court expert opinions, and so on. The indictment ends as follows: "In summary, from the village of Borki, Shimon Petrov Karzinkin, a thirty-three-year-old peasant, and Yefimya Ivanova Bochkova, a forty-three-year-old peasant, Yefemiah Katerina Mikhailova Maslova, aged twenty-seven, accused of stealing cash and a ring from the merchant Smerikov on January 17, 188×, Worth 2,500 silver rubles in total, murdered Smerikov with poison and alcohol, causing his death. "Investigation of this crime violates paragraphs 4 and 5 of Article 1453 of the Criminal Code. Accordingly, in accordance with Article 201 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, peasants Simon Karzinkin, Yefemiah Bochko Ekaterina Maslova and the petty citizen Ekaterina Maslova should be brought to the district court with jurors."

The clerk had just finished reading the long indictment, packed up the documents, sat down, and smoothed his long hair with his hands.Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a happy feeling that the trial was about to begin, that everything would come to light, and that justice would be done.Only Nekhludoff did not feel this way.He was terrified at the thought that Maslova, an innocent and lovely girl he had known ten years before, should have committed such a crime.