St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-07

the body was drained of its blood.
The blood gathered fr9W these, girls
was at once used by the Countess to
! battle her neck and race. vanity had
much to do With these terrible crimes,
for 1t was in the beautlfying of her
complexion that the countess first found
an excuse fog her actions. The love of
torture grew on her with the increase
of her crimes and the familiarity she
acquired with suffering.
A servant npon one occasion fell In a
fit while waiting on the countess, where
at the mistress, calling in her aids.
| ordered them to remove the shoes and
stockings of the unconscious girl, and
then she twisted some small pieces of
paper, soaked them in oil and inserted
| them between the toes of the waitress
and sets them on fire. Before the
woman came out of her fit her toes
were burned off. The count enjoyed
this so thoroughly that it was several
later victims, and as prelude to the
killing.
1t was after the death of her husband
that the countess gave unrestrained
| license to her murder0us instincts and
made veritable business of killing.
She had large mansion ON the Blut-
! gasSe, Vienna. and there as well as at
her chateau of Cseithe she carried on
! her trade.
Having detected one of her chamber
maids in the theft of piece of money,
she caused her to be bound down to the
| floor with her right hand extended, and
| then she heated bar of iron red hot
! and pressed it on the extended hand of
the shrIeking maid, aud continuing to
| do this until the hand was entirely
! gone.
The countess caused one of her girls
to be stood. nude. i'll hogshead of ice
water and kept there for four hours,
! after which she was clothed i'll single
muslin garment soaked in ice-water and
then tied to the top of a tail tower, while
| afuriouS.snow storm ragged, and was kept
there all night. In the morning the
| maiden was dead.
The Mock Marriage.
! Her washerwoman she strapped to the
wall and burAed out her eyes. nose aud
| tongue with-t redhot iron. She kept the
poor woman alive for several days. burn
| ing her afresh every hour and torturing
her i'll many horrible Ways.
The supply of victims failing, she di-
rected the man Fierko to 90 out to the
distant country and kidnap. induce or
otherwise get victims to visit the cha
teau. Once there, the girls were taken 70
the dungeons. Then favorite plan of
the countess was to have mock cere-
mony Of marriage performed. the man
FIerko acting as bridegroom aud the
girls receiving the assurance that in
marrying they would acquire their free
DON the following day, whereas by re-
| fuSlng they would be committing sui
eide, inasinuch as they would in that
event be- killed.
A girl would be conducted to dun
geon Titled up like a royal boudoir.
During the night the bride would
plunge knife into her heart as soon as
she opened her eyes. A method that
was TO have the victim suspended by
ropes from the ceiling, and then gently
open vein III her body and watch her
| slowly bleed to death.
Many of the girls were forced to leap
from high places, and it they heSltated
| to do so they were pushed off into space.
Many were laid across benches or large
rocks aud their limbs were broken by
| the blows of heavy iron bar in the
| handS OF the man Flerko; or the victim
| was suspended by the feet and allowed
to remain in that position until she
died, either FROM starvation OF from
! congestion.
! Five washerwomen employed in the
chateau excited the diSpleaSure OF the
mistress, and so they were denuded, tied
to posts in The park and whipped with
! heavy sticks until they died. Finding
four of her maids drinking and laugh.
ing when they should have been work
ing,th countess causedthem to be taken
! to pool and there dragged through
the water by rope. When nearly dead
they were taken back TO the chateau
and imprisoned in room and Sutfocated
with smoke.
| The stories told of these murders
! created scandal. George Truro,
| governor OF the province and cousin OF
| the countess, warned his relative to
cease her terrible crimes. But still the
murders continued, and finally even
the governor made up his mind that
they should De stopped by force.
Learning that his cousin had ar
ranged for her usual Christmas whole.
sale killing, he took some officers and
went to the charteau. He found IN the
cellars OF the building twenty young
! women tied to the wallis without clothes
and horribly maltreated. These girls
were 10 be killed that same night, and
elaborate preparations had been made
| Tor the slaughter.
The girls told the governor that they
MAD been there for month and that
| there had been many more, but that
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and when the selection was made the
victim met her fact then and there in
| the presence of the others. Each day
the Countess would torture them, and
she showed wonderful ingenuity in her
means of doing SO. One girl had a
bosom cut off by the countess, another
had'lost her ears, another her noise, and
all had been mutllated with a devilish
fer0clty. One was hanging from the
Inv aar hi - 4
by great sp:k.', and Il large basin was
placed on the ground in order that the
blood might not be lost.
| The Record of Blood.
Elisabeth Bathori was arrested, but
owing to the tact that she was a mem
Der of the reigning house, she was not
oned for the rest OF her life in the
fortress of Esej, and her death took
place there on Aug. 81, l641, after she
mad been locked up thirty-one years.
She was fifty.fOur years old at her
death, and died from starvation.
Flerko was decapitated, and the two
women accomplices were burned alive,
after having their hands cut off. In
their confession the authorities learned,
they said, that during the preceding six
years the countess had killed $50 Young
girls. Whether there was any merit in the
use of blood. as the countess claimed
there was, is rot KhOwn, but the fact
remains that she was acknowledged to
be the most beautiful woman IN the
country. Her complexion was famous
all over the Austrian empire, and she
declared that before using this means
of beauty she had been comparatively
plain, and that after she was locked up
and unable to battle in human blood
she rapidly deteriorated.
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