The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05
4 DIVORCE GRANTED
An Italian Count Discovers His
Wife's InfideIity.
OCCUPYING THE SAMEAPARTMENT
The Guilty Couple AfTronted by the Husband
He CoolIy Informs Them That He
Don't Want to Kill Anybody.

Especial TO THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch
NICE, June 4.-The correctional tribunal
today granted divorce to Count Menabrea,
son of the former ambassador at Paris, and
now naturalized citizen of France Tue
court imposed upon the Countess Menabrea
and her paramour, the Russian, Orzeske,
q fine OF 100 francs each for the adultery of
which they were found guilty.
The countess, who has been i'll in Eng
land, presented no defense to the charge of
adultery, of which there was ample evil
dence, police commissary having deposed
that. on the 22d of November last, he
found the countess and Orzeske
OCCUPYING THE SAME APARTMENT,
and that they subsequently admitted to
him that they had been living together. 1t
appears that young Count Menabrea first
met Orzeske, who is wealthy and comes
from an excellent Russian family, at a
party given at the Italian embassy. They
became very friendly and the young count
took pleasure in introducing his friend to
his wife. The countess soon became in
fatuated with Orzeske and sought every
opportunity to be in his society. The fire.
quent absence of the young count on dip
lomatic business for his father gave Or
zeske and the countess these opportunities
frequently. Meantime the difference be-
tween the count and countess led to separ-
alton, which was confirmed by the Italian
tribunals, and the countess then began liv-
ing with Orzeske.
Count Menabrea on learning the way his
wife was living, determined upon an abso-
Lutte divorce, and after notifying the police
went to where the countess and Orzeske
were residing and surprised them.
Although the young count is said to be of
fiery blood, he took the situation very
coolly, and without word of reproach to
the guilty couple requested the police COM
missary to
NOTE TIE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.
Meantime Orzeske, thinking that Count
Menabrea was bent on deadly satisfaction
for the loss of his wife, struck a heroic at
titude aud exclaimed:
81 am ready to die; kill me if you like,
but spare her.
The count quietly replied that he was
quite welcome to her, and he, the count
had no thought OF killing anybody. The
GOODNESS on the part Of the husband appears
to have irritated the countess, and ever
since the
DETECTION OF her DISGRACE,
she has been trying TO prevent her husband
from getting the divorce he desired. When
the case came up on the 5th of May. her
counsel, NJ. Lsirelle, asked for postpone
ment OF the hearing, but this was only
granted until today. The court was not
crowded when the case came up.
The public prosecutor, in opening the
case, remarked upon the absence of Or
elr vvho 10
Susanna, confessed that she had
BEEN GUILTY OF ADULTERY,
but claimed that, owing TO her separation
from the count, she believed nerself at the
time TO be free 10 do as she pleased. M.
Lairelle read tie agreement between the
count and countess at the time of their
separation, in which Count Menabrea
agreed, over his own signature TO give the
countess all the liberty TO live apart from
him, and NJ. Lairelie also read the decree
of the tribunal at Turin, Italy, granting q
separation TO the countess on the ground of
her husbands misconduct. NJ. Larelle
burst into tears, owing TO the eernestness
of his feelings in defending his client, and
he urged that she was entitled under sill
the circumstances TO the clemency and
sympathy Of the court.
The public prosecution, in summing up
said that it was pity the countess had not
behaved like the other Susanna of the
sacred story and
REPULsED THE APPROACH OF oRzEsKE.
He spoke of the Deacon case and the
Raymond case, and said the only way to
prevent such tragedies was for the full
benefit of the law to be extended 10 those
who sought legal justice, instead of assum-
ing to take justice in their own hands.
In imposing the comparatively mild
penalty of 100 francs fine, the court took
into consideration the fact that at the time
Of the offence, the husband and wife were
separate under decree of the Italian
courts. This divorce scandal is believed
to have FASTENED the retirement from the
Italian embassy of General Menabrea,
father of the count.