The Sun. — 1868-04-28 (London, England)

FIVE MEN DROWNED IN THE SOLWAY. —A fatal accident of a very disastrous kind occurred in the Solway Firth on Sunday afternoon. Five young men, employed at Annan, set out from that port in a small boat, rigged ounp tii%liet lei sail,nbe riaas(l isl,l crossedahoron the:ftelr Solwayiillo7lre:,otheo(iilitti riift(:,,itrrt(kh; ontiesnvais liNte,iioti thhieer'bfebt3tr'idael.'d in the They ba,l not proceeded halfway across when it wai 'observed from the shore that theh mast had got wrong and the sail swayed over the side. Shortly afterwards the boat capsfzed, ani all the five men were thrown into the sea. Three of then sank almost immediately, being quite unable to resist the powerful force of the ebbing tide, and were drowned but the other two clung to the overturned boat, whicl drifted down to the railway bridge whicl,othnetcloyrbooitsatlsv,teomsfivisitaii; Firth below Bowness. There, conjectured, the ancho ut it the dragged against the piles of the viaduct, for the boat st • a‘rvoidxtteinlsdiw;eartaTetrehaeenfft dNovrsotamnt ioec ,ns,acaNN,v,rehroytiiiivlegemr eNsle,silttvhi bh rivers of the pleasure party, and thus number of deathi to five, ..11S.r_!t11:4.18  The new Vienna story of poisoning seems more like this concoction of a romance-maker than the narrative of a real event Count Gustavus Chorinsky, an officer in this', Austrian army, married an actress, Mathilda Rueff ; but .after four years of wedded life they separated—apparentli; from. no :seriouS fault on her part, since her husband's father immediately gave her a home. Shortly after., wards the count was wounded in battle, and was invited to come home to be nursed ; but he refused to enter his father's house until his discarded wife was turned out of doors. The poor lady left for Munith, and there she lived in retirement. Mrck now find a new character in the story—Julia do Eber. crenyi, a canoness. That title indicates one who, though - s ill remaining; in the world, professes to devote herself to religion and good works under the sanction of the Church; lalt in this ease Julia became the femme dc liaison of the Count Chorinsky, and she probably bolted to become his wife. The first wife. however—the discarded alress— was still alive. Who plotted the subsequent actions will :ewer, las-haps, he clearly known ; but a lady from Viehna visited the wife, obtained au interview with her, end in some: way seems to have won her temporary confidence, as they had apparently arransed to go together to the thestre. But when the carriage arrived, the two ladies had disappeared, and the wife's door was locked. The next day it was brsken open by the police, and e poor %roman was found dead—poisoned by cyanidet h of potassium. There was nothing to indicate suicides. nothing to suggest robbery ; and of course suspicion fell 'on the strange lady, . The husband was arrested, and oss him was discovered a photographic likeness of the sus.'', pected visitor ; and it eventually proved to be the Count's mistress, Julia de Ebergenyi, who had visited the Count's wife—this time Rosamond tracing Queen Eleanor to her bower. It was also ascertained that the husband had enntemslated marrying the canoness, and thus a motive for the murder was suggested. Julia has been senteneeds to twenty years' strict imprisonment, with a week of solitary confinement once a.year. It is not stated whether the husband is also to be tried for the offence. Few.story. tellers of the day would dare to heap up incidents so Sug. gestive of mere romance—the young officer of noble birth marrying an actress for love, then discarding her ; his father adopting-her ; the wsrrior brought home wounded, but his wife to be expelled ; her retirement to a quiet home; his liaison with a canoness; her guilty hopes her bold stroke for a husband by killing off the wife ; her discovery by means of a photograph. It is real life ae-ainst Miss Bradden, and real life an easy winner.