A TITLED MUEDERESS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 666, 6 May 1914, Page 3

A TITLED MUEDERESS.

COUNTESS TIEPOLO'S CRIME.

BIG TRIAL IN ITALY

Rome, May 1. \ Two hundred witnesses have been called in the trial of Countess Tiepolo at Eneglin, and the interest in the case recalls the Tarnowsky sensation. The Countess, who possesses great beauty, gave evidence that during a period of physical weakness she allowed Lieutenant Parlimanti to become too familiar. He seemed to sympathise with her. She feared to tell her husband, but later recovered her sell-pnssession, and when Parlimanti intruded into her bedroom, she shot him.

t The prosecution alleged that the Countess was intriguing with Lieutenant Parlimanti and loaded him with presents.

The Countes9 Trepolo, a member of a noble Italian family, was arrested at San Remo last November for fatally shooting Lieutenant Parlimanti, her husband's orderly, during the absence of her husband. Captain Oggioni Parlimanti was a handsome soldier, and was 22 years of age. The neighbours heard a revolver shot, and almost immediately after the Countess, in an excited and dishevelled state, ran'into the corridor of the hotel with a revolver in her hand. She declared that Palimanti had tried to embrace her, and that she was nearly overpowered when she seized a revolver and involuntarily fired, killing him. Her father, Count Gnolana Trepolo, 13 President of the Court of Appeal at Parma. Her brother committed suicide in an hotel several years ago owing to a love affair. The Tarnowsky case, recalled by the present trial, aroused intense interest in the early part of 1910' At that time the Countess Marie Tarnowsky, Nicholas Naumoff, M. Prilukoff, and the countess' maid, Elsie Perrier, were tried for murdering Count Kamarowski. a Russian nobleman, who was engaged to be married to Countess Tamowek? The murder was committed at Venice in September, 1907, by Naumoff. It was stated that he was instigated by Countess Tarnowsky. who desired to obtain the £20,000 for which her fiancee's life was insured; Perrier was acquitted, and the othei three were found guilty. Naumoff was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Countess Tarnowsky to eight years, and Prilukoff to ten years; in each case the sentence to be passed in solitary confinement. Subsequently the sentence on the Countess was commuted.