The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-05 00:00:00

A Romance and Tragedy at Mun'em.

A startling, romantic, and dreadful crime has just been
committed at Munich. A love-story has hardly ever
ended more tragically than this one. And the dismal tale
is not yet told. The last dismal chapter has yet to be
read. Count Chorinsky, a lieutenant in the Austrian
army, and son of the Stadt—older of Lower Austria,
lived in Vienna with his young wife, who was aged 28 at
the time when the event we are about to relate occurred,
and was a native of Munich. The Countess was amiable,
and a favourite with her husband's family. Her husband,
however, was of a very different character. In a short
time the Count's conduct became such that a separation
between him and his wife became necessary. Unwilling
to place her husband's family in a position of embarass.
ment, the Countess resolved to retire to Munich, her native
place. Here, supported by an allowance from her father.
in-law. she lived in retirement and respectability in the
Amalien-Strasse for some time. On Tuesday, the 19th
November, a beautiful young lady arrived at Munich,
took rooms in The Four Seasons, one of the best hotels of
the town, and gave the name of Baroness Vay. Next day
a gentleman, ostensibly a merchant from Brunn, in
Moravia, and a friend of the Baroness. On the Thursday
after his arrival the Baroness went straight to Amalien.
Strasse, and to the lodgings of the Countess Chorinsky,
without having ever been in that quarter before,
and after having asserted that she was a total
stranger in the town. After passing the day and going
out shopping, both ladies went home to the Countess's
lodgings in Amalien-Strasse to have tea. When sitting
at tea a commissioner brought in two tickets for the play,
and the Baroness Vay, calling the landlady, desired her to
go out and order a hackney-coach, that they might drive to
the theatre together. After executing her commission
the landlady returned, but found no one apparently at
home. The room door was locked, and on knocking the
landlady obtained no answer. The countess did not re.
turn that evening ; the landlady became alarmed, informed
the police, and had the room door burst open
on the Saturday. Everything in the room was
found to be in its place. The arrangement of the
table was the same as it was on the Thursday night, when
the ladies had tea together, and nothing was re-
marked save the circumstance that the cup fr3m
which the Countess had been drinking was empty,
while that which the young Baroness was to use was
full. The Countess was found lying dead on the floor
beside the sofa, her face marked with blood that had flowed
in a stream from her nose. There was at once a suspicion
of poison. On examination prussic acid was found, not
only in the intestines, but also in the blood of the mur.
dered lady. There was no robbery ; the Countess's
jewels had not been tampered with. It was found
out that the young Baroness had returned to
her hotel in great agitation on the Thursday night,
and that soon afterwards she set out by express train
for Vienna. The merchant from Brunn took his leave
the day after. The Countess's father-in-law, the
elder Count Chorinsky, was present at the funeral. The
son was not, for the excellent reason thatin the meanwhile
he had been arrested. His clothes being examined, it was
found that round his neck he wore a locket containing a
portrait of the so-called Baroness Vay ; for it now turned
out that this was a false name, and that the real name was
Baroness Julia Ebergenyi. She is a Hungarian by birth,
is 25 years of age and is very beautiful with blue eyes full
of gentleness. She also had by this time been arrested.
At the moment of arrest she betrayed considerable
emotion, but soon regained composure. It appears
that Count Chorinsky had formed her acquaintance
in Vienna, and had visited her secretly and often. From
the last account in the Avenir National we learn that the
Baroness Ebergenyi lived in Vienna with an old lady who
did all in her power to prevent the visits of the Count,
and told the young lady that he was married. But
the Baroness had conceived the most irrepressible passion
for Chorinsky, was in the habit of seeing him frequently,
and of writing long letters to him when absent. She was
often known to say that the Count was going to become a
Protestant, that he might be free from his former wife
and able to marry her. But the event has shewn that
rather than forsake his religion he chose to commit, or
to be a party to the commission of murder.
The last news of the melancholy history is, that the
Baroness has made a full confession of her guilt,

THE LIVERPOOL CAB PROPRIETORS AND THE
CORPORATION.—Liverpool is threatened with a " cab
strike." The quarrel between the corporation and the cab-
owners has reference to the new regulations the former
want to enforce, by which any cabowner may charge what
he likes if he will paint his " rate " on the outside of his cab.
This proposal the cab proprietors object to most strongly.
At the meeting of the Town Council on Wednesday it was
resolved that the Hackney Coach Committee should try to
come to some arrangemen' vith the cabowners, and if they
fail, the subject is to be brought before a full weetin of
the council,