A COUNTESS' REVENGE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2072, 14 October 1880, Page 3

A COUNTESS' REVENGE.

Another of those sad social, oases of crime which have been so in France of late came before the assizes of the Oharente Inferieure on August 16th. The prisoner is the Oomtesse do Tilly. She is about thirty-four years of ago, and both on her own and her husband’s aide is connected with several distinguished noble families. Her marriage took place at Saintes fifteen years ago, and four children have been the issue. At first the union appeared to be a happy one, but the Countess falling into delicate health, her husband neglected her, and eventually formed the acquaintance of a work- girl in the neighborhood named Marie Marechal, said to be remarkably pretty. The liaison wont on for some time. At lost the Countess heard of it, and determined to be revenged. She bought some vitriol, and as the girl passed by one morning on her way to work the Countess threw the corrosive fluid in her face. Mario Marechal was taken to the hospital, but all the efforts of medical science were in vain, and in addition to being terribly disfigured for life, she has lost the sight of one eye, and it is feared will be deprived eventually of the other. The Countess expresses no regret. She says she did not want to kill her, but merely to destroy her beauty, in the hope that her husband would then abandon his mistress. The Countess was acquitted. The verdict was applauded in Court. It was stated during the trial that the Countess, who did not intend to injure the young woman so much as she did, has placed 20,000 francs at her disposal.