The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-30

supernal power. divine OF diabolic, also
wills and the ,npshot Of the, Baroness Ju-
lies emotions, longings, and determine
tions was trip made by her, under an as-
surned name, in November, 1857, to the b.
varian city Of Munich, where the Countess
Chorinski was then living alone, and in
lodgings. The people with whom the
Countess lodged in Munich told the rest
of the story; how q strange lady came
to see their lodger; how their lodger
proposed one night to. visit the opera
house in company with the strange lady;
how, for two days after this proposed
visit to the opera, nothing WAS seen Of the
Countess ChorinsE how, after the e1pira-
ton. of these two days, on inquiry at the
hotel Of the .Vier Jchreszeiten, where the
strange lady had been supposed to be stay
ing, nothing could be learned either Of her
self or Of the Countess Chorinski how the
Countess's doors were then broken, open,
when the Countess was discovered lying
dead upon the floor. A medical investiga-
ton revealed the fact that death had been
caused by prussic acid. The suspicious Of
the police, Bavarians though they were,
were excited by this trivial circumstance.
The Count Chorinski, arriving in Munich
to attend the last duties" to be paid his
hapless spouse, was arrested and examined.
On his person were found photographs Of
lady. These photographs, being inspected
by the persons with whom the Countess
Chorinski had lodged, were declared by
them to be portraits Of the Countess's mys-
terious visitor and thesephotographs were
the photographs of the Baroness Julie Eber-
genyi.
The case thus suggested was worked up
in the German manner. The Baroness was
arrested and put to the preliminary mental
torment known as q judicial examination in
Germany. Her relations with Chorinski
were mercilessly probed and sifted !; all her
words, all her actions, her spasms Of terror,
her tears, her madness-all were super
vised, analysed, recorded. Worn down
finally, exhausted and half frantic, she was
put upon her trial. In the course Of the
proceedings the unhappy woman seems to
have undergone hundred deaths; fainting
at one time, at another convulsed; praying,
weeping, defiant, and desperate by turns.
The evidence against her seems, even
when judged by American standards, to
have been extremely formidable, and there
is probably but little reason to doubt that
she really committed the crime charged
upon her. How large share the Count
Chorinski had either in suggesting the
murder or in fostering the suggestion Of it
made to his mistress by her own ungovern-
able passion, or in planning it, or in con-
tributing to the execution of it when plann-
ed-all this remains to be seen, the trial Of
the Count not having. been concluded at the
latest advices from Austria. But We may
take it for granted that whatever punish
ment the chief perpetrator of such crime
as the murder of the Countess Chorinski
deserves has been deserved by Julie, Ba-
roness d'Ebergenyi.
What is the punishment decreed by the
High Criminal Court of Vienna to be
inflicted upon this wretched young woman !?
/" That she be despoiled Of her rank and
titles, and sentenced to twenty years Of hard
labor. "-Nep York World.