SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN BERLIN.
ALLEGED STJBSTmmON OF A CHILD.
A COUNTESS ACQUrTTED. TJsrftsd Pr**» AaMcJaKoa-r-Rv 'BJeotrie Taiagrapa—CopTnjfb*. BERLIN, November 86. A protracted and sensational trial in Berlin has resulted in tbe acquittal of th* Count and Countess Kemal«&,<» a charge of putting forward a child, not their own,. as heir to their estates at Wrabieswa, in German Poland. Th* public at first believed the Countess to be guilty, especially owing to one woman swearing that her dead mother, confessed to procuring tlie child for the Countess, but public opinion favoured tlie Countess after the finding of a Commiflsion, appointed to test the physical resemblance between tbe Countess and child, was made known. The sympathy with the Countess was atrengthened owing to tJ—■ prosecution brow-beating and arresting ber witness for perjury. Counsel for the prosecution, in an impassioned speech, urged that unless a verdict of guilty were pronounced tho death blow would be given to trial by jury. . Forces of polioe were held in reserve in expectation that conviction would lead to a Polish democratism. Tbe charge*, of perjury were withdrawn.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11752, 28 November 1903, Page 7
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