The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

Duke of the Abruzzi was present at several sessions. and the most celebrated person. ages in Italian society struggled for places. The prisoners were taken to and from the court in gondolas.
 Naumoff broke down and in broken words told how the Countess had be- witched him into committing the crime. He said that a forged telegram from Count Kamarowski denouncing both him and the Countess had induced him to start off to Venice to murder the Count He arrived at the villa in the early morning, surprised the Count and fired five shots at him with revolver, four of which took effect. As the Count lay dying he murmured:
 Have you no heart? leave mother less daughter of eight years at the mercy of a tigress."
 Prilukoff confirmed everything Naumoff confessed He told how the Countess had melted him to kill the Count first. He proposed to do it with a new revolver { firing expanding bullets, but she objected to this because she had bought the revolver herself, and it's use might incriminate her. Then they agreed that Priukoff should use a poisoned stiletto. He was to reserve the revolver for use on himself
 The Countess handled this weapon and explained to Prilukoff precisely how to charge it with expanding bullets. She also gave practical illustration of how he ! was to hold the barrel upward inside his mouth so that his own face and forehead might in the explosion be shattered be- yond Identification, as had happened in the case of her former lover, Stahl.
 A letter from Stahl was produced in which he wrote:
 'On my word, and by all that is strong and pure within me, l, Vladimer Stahl, promise Marie Tarnowski to do all that she commands of me. I declare again that this constitutes no sacrifice on my part and I ask no recompense."
 In another letter, written just before he died, he said:
 '1 shall still live forty minutes more. All is ended. My love for you alone lives. live with the sole hope that you shall pass before my bier. I kiss you and I die''
 Continuing his revelations, Prilukoff told how the Countess made him write letter addressed to herself, which he was to post in Venice just before the murder, wherein he confessed that he had been driven to take Kamarowski's life purely through his own uncomfortable jealousy
 Nahmoffs devotion to the Countess showed them safer method of accomplish ing the crime. Prilukoff was to wait on guard while Naumoff killed the Count Then Prilukoff would have an opportunity to kill him, after surprising him in the act of murder, or else Naumoff, trapped and held at bay, would kill himself.
 But Naumoff's astonishing speed and secrecy in the killing upset this carefully calculated plan.
 As Prilukoff told these details, the Countess interrupted with an ironical smile, exclaiming
 You are simply liar. Everything you say is lie.''
 The wretched Prilukof, with an ex- pression of terror cried to the Judge:
 'I cannot go on with my testimony if see her"
 The Countess was removed from the courtroom temporarily, and he proceeded.
 An old and enormously wealthy Russian Prince, who had fallen under the Count ess's fascination, haunted the courtroom.
 After a long trial the Countess was sentenced to eight years imprisonment. Prilukoff to ten years and Naumoff to three. It was generally said that the Countess's beauty had been very powerful in induc. ing tbe jury to give her such a light sentence. During her Imprisonment she continued to fascinate many men who came in contact with her.