The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
AEHRENTHAL IS
 NOT DEFEATED Extraordinary Poisoning Trial of Domestic Servant
 Brought to a Close
By EMIL ANDRASSY

Vienna, February 17.-(Special )-The fact that Marsrave Pallavicini has been brought from Constantnople to take charge of the foreign office does not mean that the campaign of the clericals against Aehrenthal has been successful. It sim ply means that the foreign minister has at last yielded to the urgent advice of his physicians and has decided to take long rest in the hope that his health will be completely restored and that he can take up his work with renewed vigor. Tn the meantime Palavicini will conduct the af fairs of the office along the lines laid down by Aehrenthal.
 An effective and accurate analysis Of the campaign against Count Aehrenthal appears in the Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung. an organ that has repeatedly discharged public functions which the leading organs of Austrian opinion fail or have rendered themselves unfit to perform. The import ance of the article lies in it's clear recos- milton of the fact that the clerico militarv campaign against Count Aehrenthal has little to do with foreign policy, but Is es- sentially an Austrian internal agitation in which foreign political arguments are un- scrupulously used in the hope of work
 ing up a state of public opinion favora ble to ornaments. This fact deprives tho campaign of much, but by no means all. of its international importance. It would be radically misleading to state the sit ueton in some such formula. as "Aenre,I. thai equals peace. Aehrenthals fall would involve var But it is none the less de- plorable that means such as those now adopted should be employed to hound from office a statesman whose chief fault In the eyes of his assailants seems to be
 that while desiring peace he has always
 had sincere, though in form sometimes dour and disagreeable conception, of the
 greatness of his country.
 An extraordinary poisoning trial has just been brought to close at Olmutz. | Austria, with the passing of the death sentence on domestic servant named Franziska Bornirschke. The girl was en- | gagged to be married to young artisan, but one day she received letter from hirr saving there was no prospect of a we'd
 ding unless some money could be on-
 tained and that, failing it. they had bet | ter part.
 The girl was madly in love with the | man, and she set her mind upon getting | the money by. any means within her power. An attempt to steal some jewelry | from her mistress ended in failure and | then, in desperation. she deliberately planned the death of her sister, also a domestic servant, who had some $50O in | a savings bank. She had in her posses- 1 sion a bottle of arsenic, and this she l mixed with sugar bought some pastry and spread the poisoned mixture over the l top. Then she dispatched the food to her sister, hoping thereby to cause her death. The parcel of pastry was opened by the intended victim in the presence of her mistress and two little boys, her mistress sons, and each partook of the contents. The little boys. who had eaten most of the sugar coating. were soon In agonies, and though they were taken with all speed to the hospital, they died shortly afterwards. The mistress and her ser want. however, recovered.
 In the dock the girl showed no sign of regret at the death of her innocent vic tims. but she broke down and sobbed bit terly when her lover said he would have worked hard for the money with whlcin to marry her, had he not thought she had a cold, mercenary nature which wouid not have found contentment in tho home of a poor man.