A WIFE'S HONOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 2

A WIFE'S HONOR.

SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN ITALY. I: By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.! Home, May 1. i There are, itwo hundred witnesses at the Tiepolo trial at Oneglia, which recalls the Tarnowsky sensation, i The prosecution alleges that the . countess was intriguing with Poli'manti who was twenty-one years old, and loaded him with presents, i The couiijtessj who is, possessed of great beauty, gave evidence that during a period of physical weaitness she allowed Polimanti to become too familiar, as lie'seemed to sympathise with her. She feared to tell her husband, and later on recovered her self-possession, and when Polimanti intruded into her bedroom she shot him.

(On November 9 of last year a cable message stated’:—Countess Tiepolo, a member of a noble Venetian family, lias been arrested ajt San Remo for fatally shooting lierji us band’s orderly during the former’s absence. She declares that she was compelled to defend her honor. Subsequent messages related how Countess Tiepolo, who is the wife •of Captain Aggioni, had undergone the cure at San Remo. She is an epileptic, and subject to hysteria. The victim was a tall, handsome soldier, named Polimanti, aged twenty-two. He wore her medallion portrait, but how he obtained it is a mystery. The neighbors heard a revolver shot in Aggioni’s rooms, and the Countess, in an excited and dishevelled state, rushed into the corridor, holding a revolver. She declared that Polimanti had twice attempted to embrace her, and she was nearly overpowered when she seized a revolver and involuntarily fired. The Countess’s father is Count Girolamo Tiepolo, President of the Court of Appeal at Parma. Her brothei 1 committed suicide in an hotel owing to a Jove affair several years ago. JMimanti’s cousin, Tullio Muri'i, was sentenced for murdering Count for ill-treating Ids wife, Murri’s sister.)