FATE OF VENICE MURDERESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 19 August 1913, Page 5

FATE OF VENICE MURDERESS.

STRANGLES IN A TRAM. (Received 10.15 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 18. The Countess Tarnowska, the central figure in the Venice murder trial of May, 1910, was found strangled in a railway carriage between St. Petersburg and Keiff. In 1910, after a trial extending over several months, the Countess Tarnowska was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for her share in the murder of her fiance, Count Kamarowski, a Russian who was fho-t deid in Venice throe years before. The Countess became intimate with a lawyer named Prilukoff, who conceived a plot to enrich hims«lf and the countess at the expense of Karaarowski's life. The count was induced to insure his life for £20,000 in favour of Tarnowski, and then Prilukoff persuaded a young man named Nautnoff, who waa ■violently in love with the countess, to murder Kamarowski, declaring that he would thus get rid of his only rival. Naumoff picked a quarrel with the count and shot him dead, declaring, in accordance with the plot, that the crime was a political one. Subsequently other details came to light, and, after a confession by Elise Perrier, Tarnowska'e maid, the three conspirators were arrested, convicted, and sentenced —Prilukoff to ten years. Tarnowska to eight, and SauraolT to three years. The countess, a beautiful woman, was released a y«aT later on the ground of ill-health.