The evening world., 1911-07-18
100000 AWAIT
MISSING COUNTESS
SOUGHT AMERICA
Search Recalls Monstrous
Story of Murders by Count
de Lacyand DR. Pantchenko.
USED CHOLERA GERMS.
Mime. de Lazari, Who Left the
Fortune, Was to Have. Been
Killed.
USED CHOLERA GERMS.

Inc Russian secret police are scounnr
America In search OF the Countess
OBrien de Lacy. wife OF the Russian
nobleman who was sentenced to a 81.
berian prison for life at the conclusion
OF the most remarkable trial in the his.
tory OF the Russian Empire. The wife
Of the convicted %poisoner has fallen heir
to $N.oOO,OOO left by her aunt, Nine. de
Laxari. who died recently in Paris and
VINO. Tor some ~unaccountable reason.
failed TO change her will subsequent to
the horrifying revelations OF the de
Lacy trial.
Wholesale murders for a fortune paltry
by comparison with the great wealth OF
Nine. de Lazari, is the sole heir OF his
wife under the Russian law. and in case
OF her death will have the distinction
OF being the richest life prisoner in the
world.
The De Lacys. previous to tie shock
Ing disclosures OF the Pantchenko poi
sonings. which the Count was convicted
OF engineering. moved in the most ex-
allied circles OF Russian society and
were freely admitted to the court OF the
Car. The news that Mime. de Lazari
beQueathod her entire great fortune TO
her niece has caused a great sensation
and has stirred the Russian authorities
TO immediate action In the case OF the
strange disappearance Of the Countess
dc Lacy. Search for her throughout
Europe has been fruitless. n now tho
activities Of the Russian secret police
have been transferred to America.
FATHER SUSPECTED HER OF
PLOT TO KILL BROTHER.
Immeditely after Count de- Lacy was
sentenced to penal servitude In Siberia
for life. his wife was reported to have
lost her reason. She had been forbidden
TO return to the homo Of her father.
Cen. Boturlin. whose death her husband
sought so that she could inherit the
Generals millions. De Lacy's fellow
eon%spirator. DR.. P~antchenSo, confessed
mat he had brought about the death OF
the Countess's brother. Count Vassllli
Boturlin, by %inoculating him with
rholera bacteria. The old General per-
listed IN the belief that his daughter
lad assisted in the plot. though shs
was not directly accused at the trial.
After the conviction her family spurned
aer. The old aunt. Nine. de Lazari. who
had been n mother to her. moved to
Paris 10 escape from the scandal. She
had also turned her niece from her and
IL was the universal belief OF the old
aristocrat's relatives hat she had made
a new will in which the names OF the de
Lacys were not mentioned.
Practically pennlless, d'sowned by her
relatives. denied by her forme intimate
friends, the beautiful and talente
Young woman was reported 70 have
gone out OF her mind. Her father or
iered an inquiry into her sanity and
made a provision for her removal to a
private sanitarium. but when his agents
began a search for her they were un-
able to find any trace of her.
This search was begun before the
death OF the millionaire aunt II was
dropped on the theory that the
Countess had put an end to herself.
Sow that. II living. she Is the mistress
Of an immense fortune, the search viii
be renewed and carried to every corner