MURDER BY A RUSSIAN BARONESS.
A party of over 120 convicts, collected from different prisons in Southern Russia has arrived at Odessa bound for Saghalion. Among tho prisoners aro a Fa • ioss and her husband, her former footman, both ecntenecd to twenty years' penal servitude The Baroness, when quite a young girl, was married to an old Baron in Courhind. Becoming enamoured of tho lackey the Baroness poisoned her husband with strychnine. After the murder was discovered the man succeeded in escaping, but tho Baroness was imprisoned. She fell dangerously ill, and was sent to the hospital, from which she escaped ; then, having sought out and found her lover, she was married to him, and tho couple settled in Koyno, where they were found living in most abject misery.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129MURDER BY A RUSSIAN BARONESS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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