Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
"a Glass of Wine with the Bogas This Painting
English Artist Collier, Shows the Three Borgias Offering
soned Glass to One They Wish to Destroy.

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 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
n revolver, four Of which took effect AS
the Count lay dying he murmured:
Have you no heart? l leave a mother
less daughter Of eight years at the mercy
of a tigress."
Prilukoff confirmed everything Naumor
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 its use might incriminate her.
Then they agreed that Prilukoff should use
poisoned stlletto. 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 a 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:
ION my word, and by all that is strong
and pure within me. I, Vladimer Stahl,
promise Marie Tarnowski to do all that
this constitutes no sacrifice on my part
and ask no recompense."
In another letter, written just before he
died. he said:
81 shall still live forty minutes more.
All is ended. My love for you alone lives.
I live with the sole hope that you shall
pass before my bier. I kiss you and
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 Kamarowskis life purely through his
own uncomfortable jealousy
Naumoff's 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 All 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 Prilukof told these details the
Countess interrupted with an lroncal
smile. eXclaiming:
you are simply liar. Everything you
say is lie."
The wretched Prilukoff. with an ex-
preston of terror, cried to the Judge:
81 cannot go on with my testimony IL I
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.
esss fascination, haunted the courtroom.
After long trial the Countess was
sentenced to eight years Imprisonment.
Prilukon to ten years and Naumoff to three
1t was generally said that the Countess's
beauty had been very powerful in induc-
ing the jury to give her such light
sentence. During her Imprisonment she
continued to fascinate many men who
came In contact with her.