MURDER TRIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9999, 21 March 1910, Page 5

MURDER TRIAL.

COUNTESS TARNOWSKA.

"A THRILLING STORY."

Keceivect March 20, 5 p.m. ROME, March 19. The Countess of Tarnowska, during an examination lasting several days, told a thrilling story of married life. Her husband was a brutal drunkard, and was constantly unfaithful to the Countess. Her only lover was Bordenski, whom her husband shot with a revolver in her arms. The evidence showed that a man named Stalk killed himself lor love of the Countess. Tho Countess violently accused Naumoff in her efforts to clear herself of the charge ot inciting Naumoff to murder Kamarowski, though Naumoff' s love for her seems to continue, according to some of the counsel arid prison attendants.

In September, 1907, a Russian named Naumoff presented himself at the residence of Count Kamarowski, a Russian, lining in the Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, Venice. In spite of a servant's refusal to admit him, Naumoff forced his way into the apartments of Count Kamarowska, and. drawing a revolver emptied live chambers at the Count. The victim died not long afterwards. The persons who now stand their trial for the murder ar:—

Naumoff, who fired the fatal shots, ' and who is said to have been madly in love with the Countess Tarnowska, a Russian divorcee, who was betrothed to the deceased Count: The Countess Tarnowska, who was entitled to an insurance of £20,000 on the life of the Count. Prilukoff, a formerly well-to-do Moscow lawyer, who is charge with having instigated the Countess' plot. The Countess* maid, named Perrier, is also arraigned. s^l^2 The hypothesis constructed by the police imroediatey after the shooting of Cuont Kamarow3ki at Venice, that the crime was committed at the instigation of the Russian lawyer Prilukoff and uf the Countess Tarnowska. was held to be confirmed by the confessions of Prilukoff and the Countess Tarnowska themselves. "Each," wrote "The Times'" correspondent, "seeks to throw as much as possible of the responsibility upon the other, but neither denies conivance and complicity. It appears that in addition to insuring his life for £20,000 in favour of the Countess Tarnowska, the late Count Kamarowski had been induced to make the Countess the sole legatee of his large fortune. The plan of the two accompilces was to eliminate both Kamarwski and Naumoff by procuring the murder ot the former and the arrest for murder of the latter, who, blinded by jealousy, was a willing tool in the Countess Tarnowska's hands.

"Prilukoff, a formerly well-to-do Moscow lawyer appears also to have been the victim of the Countess Tarnowska before becoming her accomplice. In order to satisfy her financial demands upon him he had embezzled moneys belonging to clients, and had escaped from Russia to avoid arrest."