A Sensational Trial.
BERLIN, Npv. 26. A protracted sensational trial in Berlin insulted in the acquittal qf tho, Count and Countess Kemalecki on a charge of putting forward a chiW not their own as hoir to their estates at WraMeswa, in German Poland. Tire public tirst believed the Countess guilty, especially owing to one woman, swearing flint her dead mother confessed to procuring a child for the Countess. Opinion favoured the Countess after the finding of a commission appointed to test the physical resemblance between the Countess and the child had been made known. Sympathy was strengthened owing to the prosecution browbeating and arresting a witness for perjury. Counsel for tho prosecution, in an impassioned speech, urged that unless a verdict of guilty was pronounced a death 'blow would be given to trial by jury. Forces of police were held in reserve in expectation that a conviction would lead to a Polish demonstration. The charges of perjury were withdrawn.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 258, 30 November 1903, Page 3
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159A Sensational Trial. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 258, 30 November 1903, Page 3
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