BRITTANY MYSTERY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19476, 11 May 1925, Page 11

BRITTANY MYSTERY.

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Pibm Association— By Tilagraph—Copyright. . PARIS, May 9. The trial of Comtesse do Keminon, aged 62, has opened at Lamion in Brittany. Tho court was crowded and accused wept copiously. During the judge’s searching examination she declared that her husband was afraid of his typist, Bernedine Nedelio, who was his mistress. The Comtosse admitted that she went to Casina and gambled. She declared that her husband sent her there in order to be alone with Bernedine.—A, and N.Z. Cable, v

SOME OF THE EVIDENCE. LONDON, May 9. (Received May 10, at 11.5 p.m.) Bernedine Nedeles said the Count loved the country, and his wife cared only for frivolity and gambling. She frequently threatened to kill him, demanding large sums of money. The witness added: ‘T was attracted by compassion. He was most unhappy in his home life. His wife used to beat him. During Miss Nedeles’s evidence the Countess became furiously angry, tearing her handkerchief into shreds. She accused Miss Nedeles of having- stolen her husband.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

The Comte Horner le I-tonx de Kerninon, who was found with four revolver wounds, died, and was buried in the family vault.’ The wounds were announced to be the re suit of an accident. The Comtesse, wh<r has since been accused, declares that the Comte’s typiste, Mdlle Tedeiec, conspired Yb secure the Comte’s death with two cousins of the victim in order to obtain an inheritance. Under examination the Comtesse maintained her innocence, although the judge pointed out that while the Comte might have inflicted one wound himself ho could not have been responsible for four. The body was exhumed, and an autopsy revealed two bullets. The shooting was not accidental, but was the result of a prime A further discovery was made later. The Comtesse, who was accused by the Comte on his death-bed, maintained that only one shot was fired, and that it was accidental. At the inquiry, the magistrate discovered a second bullet embedded in a door, and ho asked how a defective revolver could explode twice accidentallv when requirin'*to be cocked by hand each time. He also discovered that a door panel had been broken by vigorous kicking. The Comtesse said she kicked it in her anxiety to fetch assistance, but the magistrate pointed out that she was wearing only stockings, and that this was done by boots. The Comtesse refused to confess, stoutly maintaining her innocence.