A WOMAN STRANGLED
ST. PETERSBURG, August 18.
The Countess Tarnowska, who was the central figure in the famous Venice murder trial of May, 1910, was found strangled in a railway carriage between St. Petersburg and Kieff.
August 19. The woman has been identified as the Countess Tarnowska’s cousin. Italian advices state that the Countess is still in prison.
The countess was sentenced in 1809 to eight years’ imprisonment for complicity in the murder of Count Kamarovski, a wealthy Russian, to whom she was betrothed. She was alleged, with her lover Prilukoff, to have incited another lover named NournofF,'' to commit the murder.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 26
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102A WOMAN STRANGLED Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 26
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