Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-08
A FIEND INCARNATE.

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A MURDERESS WHO BATHED IN
HUMAN BLOOD.
A Titled Lady, and One Of the Most
Beautiful, n Fiend Incarnate-
Murdered 900 Young Girls.
New York World
In the Castle de Zay Ungrocz, in
Hungary, there is a gallery of por-
traits of the Bathori family. There
are many famous warriors and states
men, many beautiful women. The
most beautiful of all is Elizabeth Bath
ori. As you look at her picture you
see tall, slender, figure and face OF
the most bewitching sweetness and
loveliness. The eyes are large and OF
an intense blue. The forehead is high
and intellectual, the hair blue-black
and waving. You would say that any
man might we'll be proud to love and
be loved by such an angelic-looking
being.
This resplendent example OF physi-
cal beauty was the most savage MUIR
deress known to history. She tortured
and killed no lees than 600 human be-
ings, the most OF them young girls, in
the brief period of six years.
The life of this astonishing lady is
just issuing from the press of Breslau.
1t seems that certain writer named
Won Elsberg, wandering through this
gallery, was fascinated by the picture
OF this woman, descended from the
noblest house in Transylvania, the
niece OF a Polish king. He made some
inquiries and heard an outline story
of her crimes. He could not believe
that she had been guilty OF such atroc-
tiles and, to vindicate her, set to work
to collect the materials for biogra-
ply. He soon found that he was to
write a story OF one of the greatest, if
not the greatest, of the monster wo-
men of history.
1t seems that this noble lady was
born in 1897 and was married in her
extreme youth to certain Hungarian
nobleman, Count Nadasky. She was
very beautiful, being especially famous
for the softness and whiteness of her
skin. When she was about "a years
old she fell i'll, and, when she recov.
cred, her skin was no longer so white
and so smooth. As it had been her
great pride, she worried about it day
and night, and no doubt this greatly
aggravated its ugliness.
She was no longer q very good
humored person. One day her maid
accidentally hurt her in combing her
hair. The countess laid hold of .
sharp-pointed toilet article and stabbed
the maid in the neck. The blow cut
the carotid artery and the blood
streamed over the hands and face OF
the countess. That lady's wrath only
increased. She leaped at the maid
and choked her, and was still further
smeared with blood.
And now the countess thought she
had made one OF those wonderful dis.
coveries that are so often found by &C.
cident. She thought she had discov.
cred that the blood of young girls was
a great softener and beautifier of the
skin. She told her husband about il
and he was much interested. You
must remember that those were the
good old days when mobiles were the
only persons worth considering, anG
everybody else was created solely te
support, fight for, amuse or in some
other or any other way serve these
mobiles. The count and countess haG
three loyal and devoted servants, 8
man named Fierko, an old family
nurse, Helene To, and maid servant
Dorothe Sventes. These three wer.
willing and eager to help restore tn.
skin OF the once lovely countess. Anc
now the castle literally ran with blood
For the noble lady had to have hel
bath of human blood daily.
Nobody interfered with the pleas.
ures of the nobility in those days
The man servant and the count kid
naped young girls in all the country
round. And each girl was bled to
death, after being kept in one of the
dungeons until her ladyship was ready
for her warm bath. OF course the no.
BILE couple and their three royal SER
wants did not long overlook the addi-
tional pleasures to be got cut torture.
The Count and Fierko caught the
young women; the nurse and the
maid servant prepared them for the
torture. Then the four sat by while
her ladyship did the torturing with
her own fair hands. And 80 efficacious
was this interesting remedy that her
ladyship was soon young again and as
blooming as the rose.
The most notable achievement of
this notable quintet is called the
" Banquet OF the Virgins" The count
and countess invited twenty-five young
women from the surrounding country
to banquet. OF course they were
highly flattered, and came joyfully. 1t
was magnificent banquet, and the
count and countess were most gracious
and condescending. After dinner the
young women were taken, few at
time, on a tour of inspection Of the