VENICE MURDER.
COUNTESS TARMOWSKY.
DuCTOKS FEAR FOR WOMAN'S SAMTY.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 8, 10 a.m. KOME, August V. The Countess Taniowska, who was in May last sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for complicity in the nurder, in 1907, of Count Kamarowski, to whom she was engaged to be married, has recently been subject to fits of hysteria, and has bad to be placed in a straight jacket The doctors are afraid that the woman will lose her reason. I
The Countess's lovers—Naumoif and PrilukorT —were sentenced to three years and ten years' imprisonment respectively. At the trial, in Venice, several mental experts gave evidence that the Countess's physical condition and hysteria were due to the abuse of drugs. They contended that frequently witnessing suicides and homicides had so influenced her that the clause of the penal code regarding diminished responsibility was applicable to her case. Other experts dem-d'this. I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 9 August 1910, Page 5
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154VENICE MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 9 August 1910, Page 5
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