A SENSATIONAL TRIAL.
VINDICATION OF A MOTHER. BERLIN,, November 26. _ A protracted sensational trial at Berlin has resulted in the acquittal of the Count and Countess Kwileeki on a charge of putting forward a child not their own as heir to their estates at Wrahleswa, German Poland. The public at first believed tho Countess guilty, especially owing to one woman swearing that her dead mother confessed to procuring, a child for the Countess (whan the latter was fifty yeans of age), hut opinion favoured the Countess after the finding of tho Conunission appointed tc test the physical resemblance between the Countess and the child was made known, and sympathy for the Countess was strengthened owing to tho prosecution browbeating and arresting her witness on a charge of perjury. Counsel for the prosecution, in an impassioned speech, urged that unless a verdict of guilty was pronounced a death-blow would bo given to trial by jury- . ’ Forces of police were held in reserve in expectation that a conviction would lead to a Polish demonstration. Tho charges of perjury were withdrawn.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5134, 28 November 1903, Page 5
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178A SENSATIONAL TRIAL. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5134, 28 November 1903, Page 5
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