The Northern Guardian. — 1897-07-24 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.]  Vienna, Friday Night. Before Boitscheff's examinaticn ended, he declared loudly that Eugenie, the child of the deceased, was certainly not his child, and that he had on idea who its father might be. Boitscheff's counsel proposed that BoitchefTs young wife should be examined, but the Court refused to grant this request, arguing that she had attended the trial tw3 days as a spectator and therefore could not act as a witness. The witnesses were then relied, and marched past before the Court and the accused. One of the first to be called was the Police Prefect's young wife, a harp player from a cafe, who is only seventeen years old. The public was much interested in another witness. Szimon, the father of the murdered girl, who came from Brdapest with a Hungarian lawyer. Boitschieff fixed his eyes upon him without betraying the least emotion. Plazolto, the son of a Vienna cheesemonger, who is to give evidence regarding the telegrams, is als3 among the witneases, and so is the Palace official Auradoli, who witnessed the scenes Anna Primon made outsida the Palace. Counsel for tile acct,sed demanded that  The Cafe Chantant Singers who appear as witnesses should not be allowed to take the oath because their business is such as to deprive them of the rights of an honest subject, but tha Court made all the witnesses take the oath, except the murdered girl's father. Novelies's young wire refused to be examined. Some of the witnesses first heard confirmed that Boitscheff was on intimate terms with Anna, and without any doubt the father of her child, and that he sometimes gave her small slims of money. Boitscheff denies this, as he denies everything. Other witnesses depose to the effect that Batscheff's relations...with Anna continued after his marriage, that he often treated her bratally, and , that he had more debts than he could every hope to pay In this morning's proceedings several witnesses declared under their oath they knew Boitscheff to have been in Budapest, but he obstinately deoled eve( haying beau near the Hungarian capital. He also denied having spant The Night after His Wedding in Anna Szimon's room, although the murdered girl's landlady in Sofia swears he did. Counsel for the de. fence objected to the examination of Anna's father as a witness, and this is the reasan why the Court did not let him take the oath to-day. Three gendarmts often on guard Before the Palace said that Anna Stimonsoften came to the Palace, and once spent a whole night outside crying. At daybreak a Palace functionary came out to her and nromiled to speak to Boitscheff in her behalf. Another gendarme de. clared he had often seen Boitscheff in civilian's clothes. A Vienna cafe chantant girl said that Anna Szimon was usually poverty stricken, but that she was always &cent and respectable, and for this reason found it very difficult to get employment in Bulgaria. The midwife Lewtzka, who assisted at the confinement of , Anna Szimon, Bald that ail her friends collected meney to pay for the girl's most urgent expenses, because her lover did 'not provide for her. This woman spoke fluently for over an hour. confirmed many important points of the indictment and made out a Ytry bad case for Boitscheff. Her daughter Hermine, also a singing girl, was one of Anna Szimon's ben friends, and speaks highly of the murdered girl's moral qualities. Mother and -daughter recagnised the elothes taken off the bedv of the mnrdered girl, her little trinkets and her portraits.