A CAUSE CELEBRE
LONDON, June 4,
The Petit Parisien's Milan correspondent states that the Countess Tarnowska has been pardoned and released.
The case in which the Countess was concerned was one of the most sensational ever heard in Italy. The accused wore the Countess, a lawyer named Prilukoff, Dr Nicola NaumofT, and Elisa Perior, a lady's maid. Naumoff was accused of having, on September 4, 1907, killed Count Paul Kamarowski; the Countess and the lawyer \yere charged with having instigated the crime; and Perier with complicity. Count Kamarowski was assassinated in Venice after the Countess had agreed to marry him, and had induced him to make his will and. insure his life in her favour. The policy was for £20,000. In signing it Count Kamarowski signed his death warrant. The Countess was, sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, Prilukoff to 10 years, and Naumoff to three years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 24
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146A CAUSE CELEBRE Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 24
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