“Kamsko-Volzhskaya Rech,” October 1 (September 18), 1913.
The day before yesterday, September 29 (16), 1913, in Kazan, a murder took place at the restaurant of I.A. Chugunov on Gostinodvorskaya Street. This whole dreadful story began when one of the waiters—19-year-old Ivan Bukanov—allowed himself to get drunk in the morning and could not perform his duties without mistakes and to the indignation of the patrons. The owner of the restaurant, without unnecessary commotion, ordered the buffet clerk—his 20-year-old nephew, Ivan Fedorovich Chugunov—to prepare the drunk waiter’s dismissal papers. At about two o’clock in the afternoon, when word of the dismissal reached the waiters, they hurried to inform Bukanov, placing the blame for the dismissal not on the restaurant owner but on the buffet clerk.
Drunken Bukanov flew into a rage, grabbed a large chef’s knife in the kitchen, ran up to the buffet clerk and, seizing Chugunov by the throat across the counter, struck him three times in the region of the heart. The young man, covering his bloodied chest with his hands, rushed into the billiard room, but the murderer caught up with him and dealt Chugunov three more blows, this time in the back. At that moment, patrons threw themselves on the attacker and disarmed him. Ivan Chugunov, who had fallen unconscious but was still alive, was immediately sent to the zemstvo hospital, where he soon died without regaining consciousness. Bukanov has been arrested by the police.