The Shasta courier., 1868-02-29
COURIER
] Poisoning of the Countess chorinsky.

Ihe newspapers of every city on the old
continent are filled with the details of n deed
which rs bound to keep public interest alive
for long time, and which throws a fright
full light upon the rottenness and perversity
of the old nobility of Europe. The follow
ing is translated from the press of Munich
and of Vienna, the two cities where the vic
tim and the perpetrator of the crime used to
reside: Fru - s ri asrlsz 81 ta8iesH
The Countess Mathilda Chorinsky, a
beautiful lady of twenty eight years, the
wife of Count Chorinsky, an employe in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Vienna, and
the daughter in-law of the Governor of
Austria, was separated from her husband
two or three years ago and lived quietly in
her retirement at Munich. As a catholic
she could not be divorced from her husband,
and, being innocent of the causes which
brought about the separation, her father-in-
law provided literally for her wants and
comfort On the 10Th of November last,
another young and equally beautiful lady,
who did not speak the German language
well, arrived from Vienna in Munich, and
took lodging in the hotel OF the Four Sea
sons, where the next day she was Joined by a
gentleman from Brunn She called herself
Baroness Way; the gentleman gave his
name as Mr.. Umlauft Though a stranger
at Munich the Baroness Way, without pre-
previously informing her, paid visit to
the Countess Chorinsky the following Tues
day, and the two ladies were seen together
on the same day making some purchases in
one of the great dry goods houses in the city.
On the same evening she took tea with the
Countess Chorinsky, both sitting on the
same sofa. The tea had just been served
when a porter brought two tickets for the
opera. The landlady, in whose house the
Countess Chorinsky boarded, opened the
door and announced the porter. Countess
Way at once left the room, told the porter she
would pay for the tickets at the hotel, at the
same time begging the landlady to send for
a carriage to take both ladies to the theatre.
A few minutes afterwards the landladv re-
turned with the carriage, but she found the
door of the Countess room locked She
thought the two ladies had c0ncludedto walk
to the theatre, and so dismissed the carriage.
She waited late in the evening for the retu rn
Of her lodgcr, but neither on that day nor on
Friday did the Countess return. On Satur-
day morning her door was opened by force.
and the Countess was found lying dead on
the floor near the place where she sat on the
sofa. Her cup was empty-that of the
Countess Way was full. The latter arrived
at a quarter before eight o'clock lin a very
ex x;ited state of mind) at her hotel, and am
hour afterwards started in the express train
for Vienna, whilst the merchant who had
followed her left the next day. There was
no intended robbery, because the dead
Countess had her gold watch and chain on
her neck, and very valuable diamond ring
on her finger. Not the least disturbance
could be ascertained in any of her bureau
drawers.
at the inquest it was at once discovered
that she was poisoned by prussic acid. The
terrible news was Immediately telegraphed
to Vienna. and three days afterwards the
husband and the father,in-law of the victim
arrived at Munich After the second exam.
lnatlon the criminal court ordered the arrest
OF the husband, and being searched at his
delivery into prison, photograph in gold
case was found upon his breast, which was
the strikingly resembling portrait of the
Countess Way. A detective was at once
dispatched to Vienna with the portrait. and
he soon succeeded in discovering the lady in
question. She is Baroness, Julia Won
Ebergenyi. an honorary canoness of the
noble lady's chapter at Brunn, TWENTY-FIVE
years old, and the daughter of one Of the
oldest noblemen in Hungary. When she
was arrested she at first seemed to be almost
crazed, but little by little she regained her
composure. She declared herself to he per.
fectly innocent of the crime Rumors are
afoat that she used to live in intimate rela.
tions with the younger Count Chorinskv
during his separation, but the whole judicial
inquisition is carried on with such secrecy
that nothing more can be said with certainty
of the circumstances than what we have
stated above. The Count and Countess are
kept in close Imprisonment, neither of them
knowing of the fate of the other.