Bisbee daily review., 1912-10-03
COUNTESS GIVEN
HER FREEDOM
Beautiful Woman Convicted
of Killing and Other In
trigues PardOned by
Government
WOMAN STILL YOUNG

ROME, oct 2--After having served
less than half Of her eight years IN
prison sentence, the Countess Marie
Tarnoyski, often spoken of as the
most beautiful and captivating queen
Of the great criminal adventuresses of
history, has been pardoned by the
Italian government The announce
ment OF the pardon has aroused much
interest and not a little public crit
icism OF the action of the authorities
in setting at liberty a woman who, in
the language of Prof. Rossi of Genoa,
the distinguished alienist and psyche
logist, is suffering from "a diabohcal
malady which makes her unanswer-
able 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
ers, a Moscow lawyer and a young
Russian official, she was convicted in
1910 on a charge of successfully con
spring to murder her husband, Count
Paul Kamarovski, in 1907. The
charges we're based on the accumu-
lated evidence produced through an
exhaustive investigation by the Aus
trian and Russian police, by the con-
LESSONS OF the lovers, Naumoff and
Prilukoff, and even by the confession
/ of the Countess herself, which, how
ever, she later denied and retracted.
/ Countess Still Young
| The Countess Tarnovskf. despite
/ her long career OF intrigue and ad-
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 a 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, Borgeysky, was shot by her
/ husband and died in her arms. An
other, a Russian officer named Stahl
committed suicide, and it is alleged
/ that he did so at her instignation.
! Her brother-in-law, the younger Tar.
novski also committed suicide.
In 1903 the Countess met PrilukOd,
a Moscow lawyer, who deserted his
wife and family, embezzled his clients
money, and travelled through Europe
with her. On their voyages they met
/ NaumoT, a neurotic young man OF
! twenty-one, who also came under her
spell. Later she encountered Count
KamarOvski, to whom she became 5e-
/ trOthed.
| IN the summer of 1907 the Countess
/ according to her own account, be
came tired of her wanderings with her
. lovers, and began to think of marry.
| ing Count KamarOvski and settling
down. PTilukOff, she asserted at heI
trial suggested that murder was fan
| preferable TO matrimOry. Then il
was that the plot to insure the
Counts life and then kill him began
to be Matched The first step was
to induce him to insure his life IN
her favor for 100000.
Insult Was Ingenious
The next step was the inflaming OIL
INaumoff against KamaTOyski, and this
was effected in a simple and ingeni
Gus manner. 4 telegram was drafted
addressed to the Countess, and signed
with Kamarovski's name. 1t contain
Gu lllt lbA4t1A AilSAtto against bbtz
the Countess and Naumoff This tele
gram was sent from Vienna to Venice
and telegraphed back TO Vienna. There
PTilukon and the Countess caused i
to be shown to Naumoff. and the lat
ter, in a frenzy of rage, hurried Il
Venice to take vengeance on the sup
posed slandeTeT.
Naumoff made his way to tn,
Counts villa early in the morning o
| Sept. 4. 1907. Brushing past tbs
maid, who opened the door, he strOd,
into the Counts bedroom. The latte
awakened by his entry, cried out 4
alarm. NaumOff, without a word, fir
ed at him five times with a revolver
inflicting mortal wounds. Naumoff
his rage spent, confused, helpless an