FROM AN IRON CAGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 5

FROM AN IRON CAGE.

. ■ » ——■ ■ ■ MURDERER'S STORY, i ■/ ; CONTROLLED . BY A FASCINATING WOMAN. WHO TRAVELS TO HER TRIAL IN A / , GONDOLA. ■. By Teleeraph—Prcsß ABSoolatlon-Oopyrliht. . (Hoc. March 7, 10.45 p.m.) 1 Rome, March 7. ' -.The trial" has commenced in Venice of the four persons charged with tho mut'dor of Count Kamarowski, who was shot :n September, 1907, by the Russian Naumolf. The accused are; ! , (1) Naumolf,' who fired the fatal shots, and whois said to have been'madly in :love with tho Countess Tarnowska, a'Russian divorcee, who' was betrothed to the deceased Count. ' ' . (2) The Countess Tarnowska, who was 'entitled to an insurance of £W,OOO on the .life of the Count, and who, is said .to have influenced Xaumoft. • (3) Prilukolf, a formerly well-to-do Moscow lawyer, who is oharged with having instigated the Countess's plot, and who is said to have previously embezzled money in Moscow in tho: interests of the Countess. ■ . ~ • The Countess's maid, named: Perrier,. 16 also arraigned., ' . • ; The Threat That Moved Naumoff. .". The opening of the trial was marked by passionate scenes. . Nairiuoff, speaking from an iron-caged dock, and sobbing throughout, related tha full details : of his 'crime from his first meeting with , the. Countess Tarnowska.' He, told how t the),fascination which. ,the. woman. . exerted led, him:to ipromise.;to.go from Moscow to Venice ,to murder Count Kamarowski, as i the only means of , preventing l CountessTarnowska- from carrying out her. threat .to go to another'lover.'. :The, judge ~'expects to hold . sixty . sittings, and to examine 250 witnesses. During. their; imprisonment—it ,is over two years since, the .arrests—the- prisoners learned the';'ltalian : language, Not a Modern Portia. . v ; Countess , Tarnowska ■'is the victim of : the intense hostility of ..the- populace.during. herdaily journey sin .'. a gondola, to tho courthouse. • ; She displays ! extraor- '• dinary impassivity in court. ' ' THE WEB OF THE COUNTESS. / : Details of the case ,were published on. Saturday. All the men were, it seems, the: woman's tools in. a greater or less degree. While the Countess and Naumoff conspired ammst' Kamarowski, the Countess 'atid' Prilukoff conspired, against Xaumofi; and Prilukoff had already ruined himself in Russia . for the sake of ;the Countess. /According to the correspondent of "The'iTimes s .':— : ■ , "It appears that, in' .addition to injuring., his life forvi2o,ooo in,favour.of the Countess: .Tornowska,. the,,late Count Kamarowski had: be«n .induced to moke the Countess the' sole legatee of his large fortune. ■ The, plan' of .the,two accom-, plices was'to. eliminate both Kamarowski and_ Naumotf: by - procuring the murder "•J the .former and the arrest for murder of the, latter, - ..who,., blinded: by jealousy, .ras 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 embezzled moneys belonging to his clients, and had escaped from Rue. sia to avoid arrest." .. ; 1