NAUMOFF RELEASED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14531, 19 November 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

NAUMOFF RELEASED.

COUNTESS TARNOWSKI'S DUPE FREE. Dr. Nicholas Naumoff, the young Russian aristocrat, who assassinated Count Kamarowski at Venice on September 4, 1907, and who was sentenced in May last, after a trial of over two months' duration, to three years and one month's detention, including the time already spent in prison, was set at liberty a few weeks ago. In order to thwart public curiosity Naumoff was released at half-past six in the morning. He proceeded immediately to St. Mark's Basilica, where he attended mass. He was accompanied by his lawyers and his aged father, who was in constant attendance throughout the trial.

The father and son started for Russia in the afternoon via Berlin, as they wished to avoid Vienna, where Dr. Naumoff's unhappy intrigue with the Countess Tarnowski began. During his captivity in the dank prison of St. Mark Naumoff contracted consumption of the chest and looks a pitiable wreck.

Although it was Dr. Naumoff who shot Count Kamarowski, the jury found that he did so under the influence and at the instigation of the Countess Tarnovvski, with whom he was madly in love, and that when he committed the crime. ho was in such a state of mental infirmity as greatly to weaken his responsibility.

The countess and M. Prilukoff, her lover as well as her legal adviser, who were regarded as primarily responsible for the crime, received sentences of eight and ten years' imprisonment respectively* -