A TRAGEDY AT VENICE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 September 1907, Page 2

A TRAGEDY AT VENICE

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY MURDER. killed' FOR insurance many. HIS FIANCEE AN ACCOMPLICE. Xt «■ „ Ve nico, September 0. Naumoff, a Russian, lias been arrested on a charge of fatally shooting Count Kamarowskl, .another Russian, at Tenle^nnJ''- e C ? mi ' B m «■'toured for £20,000 m favor of the divorced Rugsian Countess Tarnowski, aged twentysix, to whom he was betrothed. Tho Counteßs and her lawyer, Prilukoff, have been arrested here on a charm of collusion in the murder.

The Countess made a statement d)W. mg that Naumoff, a young married man, was passionately in love with hekt and that he determined to kill. Kamawtth „ j ?*?■ said Bhe Bent MJukofl with a detective to protect tho Count and prevent the murder. fessed U thS tW* ot ,. her himd ' has «>*- Jessed that the Countess's extravagance had ruined him anU driven him toS Ins client. He says she planned the murder m order to obtain Kamarowski's insurance. • Prilukoff and she intended thereafter to marry. Prilukoff added that NauraofF was a mere tool in tho Countess's hands. THE COUNTESS CONFESSES . Received 10th, 10,25 p.m. „ Venice, September ID, Countess Tarnowski confesses to complicity in the murder. She describes M. Prilukoff as the originator..