The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-07

9t TS" 10 chamberlain Taubes death.
countess Skajgerskjold at once com
~ i ilulilcated with her lawyer and the DO
nee and 1t was arranged that she
should be followed at q distance ~
detectives, and also by a coupIe ne
men friends. The locality was rather
ioliely ana on the outskirts of Stock
iloIln. Ihe countess started. The dc
tectlVes and her friends waited few
n II, and then followed the yoIlno
taoy, 2He mad not. been out of sight
more than five minutes when tba da
tectives heard a cry, and AT onca r,,ee
eo forward, when, to their intense SIR
prise. they found her lying on the road
to all appearance dead. 0''"'
ohe was taken to the nearest bos-
pltal by one of the detectives and bar
irlends, While the others started on q
hunt for her assailant.
~ 4S tne hospital DR.. Carl Janson made
g. oiip p examination of the girl.
one mad received half a dozen bIovvs
over her head and sixteen knife cuts
III the upper part of the body. haDniIv
none of them dangerous.
from the hospital she was taken TO
t ner nome nome accompanied by Chief Jus
Here she made the following ,4o.
ment: ms ''''e
when I left my friends advanced
rapidly to the place designated in the
letter, when |
suddendiy Received u Blow
on the head from behind, and at once
lost consciousness"
She was later questioned in regard to
lne letter received by the detective
ponce in Stockholm and forwarded TO
the court She absolutely denied hav-
ing written such a letter. The new
phase of the trial caused even greater
surprise in Sweden, and the continer-
TAI newspapers had long Geographic
reports of the affair To
In the meantime the Stockholm police
had not been idle. The shrewdest de-
tectlVes were sent that same evening
10 the locality where the assault had
taken place. The ground was brilliant
~ illuminated and every inch of ground
gone over, but to the surprise Of the
detectives the only marks Of footsteps
We're those Of Miss SkajerskioId the
detectives and her friends. Every foot
steP was measured, no footsteps led
away from the direction in which tba
party had advanced, and the detectives
unanimously came to the conclusion
that the whole story of the assault was
O. myth. But how were the wounds in
hlcted? The chief Of detectives and the
higher police officials held a consulta1
tlon and it was decided to have an in
terview with the Countess Helga
SkaJerskJold This was held at her
nome nome IN the presence Of her relative.
Ch1ef Justice Carlson. They questioned
ana pressed her until finally the Young
woman confessed that she herself wrote
hoth the letters read in court and the
letter making the appointment for the
meeting
The wounds she also confessed she
mad inflicted on herself, some Of them
by means Of a stone and
The Knife Cuts
with small paper knife, which she
had previously disinfected, to prevent
blood poisoning. The knife she had
hidden under the moss on the ground,
As to her motive or to the poisoning of
chamberlain Taube, she refused to
make any statement.
The police finally decided not to ar
rest her, and her friends and relatives
industriously circulated the report that
she was hopeless monomaniac, and
arrangements were at once made to
take her to some sanitarfum in South
ern Italy. She left Stockholm about
Christmas time in care of her friends.
When a few miles from Stockholm
she was arrested at the Gnesta railway
station by detectives on an order from
the judge having the Taube investiga-
ton in hand. By this time her case
had aroused such indignation among
the masses that It Is limited King Oscar
himself ordered the chief Of police at
Stockholm to cause her arrest.
It is known that King Oscar has
taken a great interest In the case, and
| the chief Of police Of Stockholm has
repeatedly been ordered to the palace
to give the king every detail of the in
vestigation.
The Countess Skajerskjold Is now in
jail, and is held without bali. She pre-
serves a naughty demeanor, and at
to be the mother Of q child o year Old,
the father being the Baron TaIIhA her