TRIBAL OF A COUNTESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2144, 9 May 1914, Page 5

TRIBAL OF A COUNTESS

CHARGE OF MURDER CRIME RECONSTRUCTED FOR THE JURY By Telegraph—Press AeeociMion—Copyright (Rec. May 8, 10.55 p.m.) Rome, May 8. In connection with the trial of tho Countess Tiepolo 011 a chargo of murder, tho jury attended a reconstruction of tho murcler at San Bemo. Witnesses testified -that Polimante was so infatuated that ho onco said ho 1 would let himself bo murdered for the Ccuntess. ' [ Friends of tho Countess testified that ; she was suffering from fits at tho time 1 of tho murder. ' Counter Tiepolo is a member of a noblo Venetian family. In November Inst $he was arrested at San Remo~ on a ; charge of fatally shooting her husband's orderly during tho former's absence. She • declared that she was compelled to cle--1 fend her honour. The Countess was Captain Oggioni's wife. SIIO had ,undergone 1 a euro at San Remo for ■ epileptic hys--1 teria. Her victim was a tall, handsome , soldier, who wore her medallion por- ! trait. The neighbours heard a revolver shot in Oggioni's rooms, and the Countess, ; exoited and dishevelled, rushed luto tho ' corridor holding a revolver, and declared that Polimante had twice attempted to embrace her,' and nearly overpowered her. 'Sho had seized a revolver and in- , voluntarily fired.