The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-21

Tn 1eW minutes ne Cupleu olL anu started out to find the count and right matters. It was dark and he took his gun with him at the request of his wife, who feared danger to him from poachers, He had not gone far when he thought he heard stealthy steps amid the undergrowth of the forest, and with the object of frightening any poachers who might be in his immediate vicinity, he fired off his gun haphazard and without taking aim. Walking a few steps farther on he fancied that he heard groans proceeding from cluster of trees right in front of him, and quickly approaching the spot whence the alarming sounds came he stumbled over the prostrate body of man. What was his horror when on turning the light of the little bulrs-eye lantern which he carried onto the object of his search he found that it was the count. Bending down he hastened to wash the blood off the wounded mans face with some of the half-melted snow with which the ground was covered and was entirely absorbed in this occupation when all of a sudden he was seized from behind by four powerful arms. They belonged to a couple of game keepers, men whom he had but that day discharged in anger, owing to some dis pute over the amount of wages due them, and who had received a promise of re-engagement from the new pro- prietor, the very man who was now lying at their feet bleeding from a ghastly wound.
 Of course the natural inference was that the count had been shot by the baron. Indeed, the latter believed so himself. The count died ten minutes later without regaining consciousness, The unfortunate nobleman was taken into custody, the case against him be- ing rendered blacker than ever by the testimony of his servants, who declared that there had been a scene of excessive violence between the two men and that after ejecting the count from the cha teau the baron had been seen arminlg himself with a gun and following him | into the woods.
 In the face of such evidence nothing remained but for the court and jury to convict, all the more as the baron did not even deny having killed the count, but merely insisted that he had done so accidentally instead of Intentionally. Against the acceptance of this argu- ment there was, however, the evidence of his servants concerning his quarrel with the count and the testimony of | the latter's lawyers with regard to the | fact that the dead nobleman believed that he had been purposely defrauded. The result was that the baron was sem fenced to the penalty above described |
 The baroness became insane on the day of her husbands condemnation and died few years ago in a lunatic asylum, while their only son, a young officer of the crack regiment of the Swedish Illus sars, overwhelmed by shame and sor- row at the dreadful fate of his parents, blew his brains out
 A few weeks ago convict in the great penitentiary near Stockholm made a deathbed confession to the effect that l it was he and not the baron who had shot Count Brockdorf. He stated that he was a poacher at the time when the murder took place, and that, having been unsuccessful in his efforts to ob- tain game, and, moreover, being ren. dered desperate by poverty and hun ger, he had killed the lonely wayfarer whom he knew to be very wealthy, in order to rob him of the money and jewels which he felt persuaded he must carry about his person. The approach of the baron had, however, frightened him off and prevented him from put. ting into execution his project of empty. ing his victims pockets.
 This shows what can be done in this queer world. Here is a case in whicf
 the circumstantial evidence was SC strong as to convince the accused him
 self, and yet things were far from be.
 ing as they seemed.
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