The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-10-02
Used Lover As Tool In Order to Be
Free to Marry a Third As She
Had Planned.
TRIAL TOOK SIX MONTHS
Prosecution Showed She Remained in
Vienna While Murder Was Being
Carried Out By Assassin.

Rome, Oct. g. After having serv-
ed less than half of her eight years
prison sentence, the Countess Marie
Tarnovski, often spoken of as the
most beautiful and captivating queen
of the great criminal adyenturesses
OF history, has been pardoned by the
! Italian government. The announce
ment of the pardon has aroused much
interest and not little public criti-
cism of the action of the authorities
in setting at liberty a woman who,
in the language of Prof. Rossi of Ge-
| noa, the distinguished alienist and
psychologist, is suffering from So dia-
| bolical malady which makes her I'M
answerable for her acts, and who
should be so confined as to prevent
her from injuring others or herself
For two years the woman has been
confined in prison in Venice on a
charge of murder. With her two low
ers, Moscow lawyer and a young
Russian Official she was convicted in
1910 on charge of successfully con-
spring to murder her husband, Count
Paul Kamarovski, 1907. The charges
! we're based On the accumulated evil
dence produced through an exhaus-
tive Investigation by the Austrian
and Russian police, by the confess
sions of the lovers, Naumoff and Pri-
lukoff, and even by the confession of
the countess herself, which, however,
she later denied and retracted.
The Countess Tarnovski, despite
her long career of intrigue and adj
venture, is now but little more than
thirty years of age and is said to be
as beautiful as ever. She is the
daughter of a noble Russian family
and was educated in convent.
While still in her teens she eloped
with Count Tarnovski, a wealthy
man, who after their marriage treated
her with great brutality. She grew
to hate him and deceive him. One
OF her lovers, Borgevsky, was shot
by her husband and died in her arms.
Another, a Russian officer named
Stahl, committed suicide, and it is
alleged that he did so at her insiga-
ton Her brother-in-law, the young
er Tarnovski also committed suicide.
In 1903 the Countess met Prilu-
koff, Moscow lawyer, who desert
ed his wife an dfamily, embezzled
his clients money, and Travelled
through Europe with her. On their
| voyages they met Naumoff, a neuro-
tic young man of twenty-one, who al
so came under her spell. Later she
encountered Count Karmarovski, to
whom she became betrothed.
In the summer of 1907 the Coun-
tess, according to her own account.
became tired of her wanderings with
her lovers, and began to think of
/ marrying Count Karmarovski and
settling down. Prilukoff, she assert
ed at her trial, suggested that muir
der was far preferable to matrimony.
Then it was that the plot to insure
the Counts life and then kill him be-
4 gan to be Matched. The first step
was to induce him to insure his life
in her favor for 100000.
The next step was the infaming
of Naumoff against KamaroVski and
this was affected in simple and in
genious manner. A telegram was
drafted, addressed to the Countess,
and signed with Kamarovski's name,
lit contained the foulest insults
against both the Countess and Maui
moi. This telegram was sent from
Vienna to Venice, and telegraphed
back to Vienna There Prilukof
and the Countess caused it to bt
shown to Naumoff, and the latter
in frenzy of rage, hurried to Ven.
ice to take vengeance on the suppos'
ed slanderer
Naumoff made his way to The
Counts villa early in the morning
of Sept. 4, 1907. Brushing past the
maid, who opened the door, he STROBE
into the Counts bedroom. The lat
ter, awakened by his entry, cried ou'
in alarm. Naumoff, without a word
fired at him five times with a revol
yer, inficting mortal wounds. Nan
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