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LEOPOLD'S ; DAUGHTER IS HUCIJ IN DEBT
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JEW IS PROSECUTED
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Anti-Jewish Sentiment, Ram
Exemplaiy Conduct of Prison-
pant in Russia,, Dominates
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; Elicits; Sympathy.
Case Against Foreman,' ,.
:NEWS!ROiyfE(D.RilGN
CAPITALS
(United Frf Lniel TCIre.)
Kieff, Oct 11. After lying In Jail for
two year and a half, Mendel Bellls was
placU on trial this weekia the criminal
section of the Kieff district court for
"ritual murder." On aocount of the ax
traordlnary interest the Case haa attract
ed throughout Europe, tha courtroom
.was packed by a cosmopolitan throne
when -Judge Boldyreff and hls-asaool
" atea mounted the. bench and began the
Impanelling of a Jury. - Th' . regular
venire for- the court term from 'Which
i the Jury waa chosen- consisted of four
men with a university education, 14
with an intermediate or elementary edu
cation, 15 who have not attended any
. school .but who hav' received some do
mes tio education, and three-who .'ere
quite Illiterate; More . than 300 news
paper men, ; from various countries, had
previously Applied- for ? seats' but so
1, great; was the demand made by 'the
: friends of both local and St' Petersburg
officials, -that many of the correspond-
o-: enta had to stand in the back of the
room, and some, although holding tick
. eta, failed altogether of admission. Con
spicuous among the reporters . waa .a
'personal representative of. M. Stchcglo
vttoff, minister of Justice, who had been
Instructed to wire a running detail ac
:,: count of the proceedings to his chief In
St Petersburg. From the Inception of
the case the ministry of Justice had care
fully directed the activities of the local
prosecutors Brandorf and Chaplinsky,
and it waa with the full approval of
the central government that the charge
of "ritual murder'' was made In the
. , original Indictment. v-''.'v'
l' ' Xellgloua jraaattolam Involved. . '.:
' Ever since the morning of '., April '1,
1911, when the mutilated, body of, An
. drel Muschinaky. a 11-year-old Christian
' boy. waa found in an abandoned Wick
'-" yard just outside Kieff, the prosecution
ha been endeavoring to establlah the
- theory that he wee slain In accordance
with an alleged Jewish rite prescribed
by the Talmud, so that his blood might
be used in making Passover bread. For
centuries the Ignorant and superstitious
Jew-baiters of Russia have clung to the
- belief that this "rite" la regularly prao
tlced by the Jewish race, and the gov
ernments baa apparently .'. dona all . -It
could to foeter this Idea, M. Kraaaov-
sky.i chief of the Kleff - detective de
partment. was ; actually Instructed to
' proceed on the theory that the crime
was the work of Jews, although the only
possible pretext for the "ritual charge
was that , the boy'e body Jbore 47 stab
wounds. - ' According to current i super
stition the "ritual murder is ; aocom-1
pllshed by 45 wounds. He could obtain
absolutely no evidence along the . re
quired .lines, but on the contrary be
lieved he had, traced the murder to. a
gang of thieves to which neighbors of
the boy's family belonged and who were
T known to be fearful that Tuschlnsky
- would betray them to ! the authorities.
Re secured, evidence that one of the
thieves was seen wun a cnisei anortiy
before the murder and that this same
Implement covered with blood, was
, found by two boys near the brick kiln
afterwards. The boys, upon orders of
the thief, threw It Into a sewer. -:, ;
: When Krassovsky made bis first, re-.
- port to his superiors he was . sternly
' reprimanded. Later he was practically.
' forced by them to arrest Mendel Brills,
I a Jew, 40 years of age, foreman of the
brickyard. In -whose room one of the
. thieves' gang said he had found some
of - the boy's clothing. : On producing
further evidence indicating the guilt of
the thieves, and . the Innocence of Bellls.
Krassovsky was dlamiaaed from office.
When a fresh Inveatigation was made
under the direction of his successor, M.
, Mistchouk, he and his assistants quick
1 ly came to the conclusion that the ritu
al murder wa fantastically untrue and
so reported to the authorities. The re-
, suit was not only the dismissal, of Mist
chouk and two of his men, but their ar
rest on charges .of ''fabricating docu
ments favorable . to the VJ ewa." They
were acquitted, but the crown appealed,
with the result that the Verdict was re
versed and they were convicted and
sentenced to a year's hard labor each.
jOmlaent Clerics Vrotest, '
' In .order to strengthen its case, the
government caused widespread publl
cation of a statement made to the ex
amining magistrate by the Archman-
drite Ambroslus, vicar af ' the Ortho-
i dox. monastery at Kieff, to the effect
that two monks, . prdsely ted from . tin
f Jewish faith, had minutely described to
him the practice of "ritual murder'.' Hit
. testimony was supported by Professor
Sikorsky, of St. Vladimir university at
' Kieff. who held that the nature - of
; Yuschlnskya wounds gave - every lndi
: cation of "ritual murder," that the boy
; manifestly had been ' tortured before
death, and that several persons were
probably party to the crime. A fur
ther emphasising, the 'attitude, of the
' government" the chief Of the " Odes
; school district, who ..openly disputed
Professor SlkoVsky'a contentions, was
dismissed from his post In the mean
. time the case had attracted world-wide
' attention, i Many prominent .men in
England Including the Archbishops f
Canterbury and York, Lord , Rosebery,
Austen Chamberlain, A. J. Balfour, and
scores of university professors, eolent
lata,and ministers of the gospel slgndd
and sent out to Russia a strongly
worded protest against ths "blood accu
sation," i In England, irrance, -Austria
i and Germany, full reports ; of the !
; quest on the murdered boy were sub
mitted to unprejudiced boards of med!-co-legal
experts who united In declar
ing that he was not' tortured no wa
the blood removed from the body, as al
leged. " The British committee, of whioh
Dr. WY H Wilcox, ohlef expert of th
home office, was the- leading member,
asserted that the evidence showed that
th boy was killed almost Instantane
ously, by two blows on ths head,, that
the numerous gtabblngs were merely
, incidental . to a peculiarly fiendish
crime, and that there i was no blood
draining. At the last International cqn-
greas of medicine .in London the case was
considered by the sections on Forensic
Medicine and psychiatry, and the opinion
was unanimously expressed that It waa
"not a. ritual : murder, but the act of
some homicidal lunatic, which had bean
seised upon by persons animated by
racial antipathy to the Jews to distort
and misrepresent facta for their own
nefarious purposes." Bellls himself waa
little better than an ordinary day la
borer, a man of practically no education
beyond that of his trade, and there i
evidence that he never had any strong
religious convictions. Yuchlnsky did-
1 1 l- I LEOPOLD'S DAUGHTER"
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'"' ill I v nnnr nrnr iirn
appeared on March 2S, when he left
home presumably-1 go to school. After
bis body was found, it developed that
Instead of goina- to school ne naa vis
ited a boy friend named Eugene Cbeber
lak, whose parents Jived near the brick
yard where the lads frequently played. ;
- Bvidenoe Against Bellls Tumsy.
The. direct' evidence against v Bellls.
so far as It has been disclosed,, is of
rather a' flimsy character. V Ptrst there
was .statement by lampligbtei-
named Shakhhowsky, who declared that
Eugene told him a .few days later, that
he and Yuchlnsky had been driven from
the brickworks by a man with, a black
beard. -Shakhbowskys wife deposed that
an acquaintance, Anna! Zakharova ye, told
her that she saw Bellls selxa Yuchln
sky, and drag him toward the brickyard
kiln. Ann Zakharovaya, however, flatly
denies this. VaasUy Cheberlak, Eugene's
father; stated that a week before the
murder, bis son told him that two Jews,
wearing unusual : arb. ? had ' taken up
their residence with Bellls. ana tnat n
had seen, them praying. Unfortunately,
Bugene,wno -naa neen sicxiy.' oieo pe
fore'bis evidence" eould be taken by, the
examlnin .magistrate. , or the.: mystery
might have been cleared up. cneben
ak's home.' wai the notorious randesvous
of a . band of thieves, and it was tbey
whom1 Krassovsky and other detectives
believed to nave been the real murder-
Later, Ivan Kosatchenke. a convict In
former, who was placed in the same ceil
with Bellls' for - two montha, declared
that Bellls arranged with him to poiaon
all the'wltnesses against blm, and prom
ised that. If he did so the Jews would
keep him In comfort for life.
.Throughout the various - preliminary
processes of the ease the , defense baa
been seriously handicapped by the man
ifest prejudices of the court 1 officials
against the prisoner. AH possible on
staoles were thrown in the way of de
fense counsel flls firsts attorney,
Grlgorovitch, was severely reprimanded
and temporarily suspended from the
case for having si gned a petition pro
testing against the "blood accusation."
His next lawyer,' Margouiin, was forced
out by reason of a palpably false ohargii
made by Vera Cheberlak, mother of tne
boy, Eugene, that he had attempted to
bribe her. ., Bellls was represented In
court by an array of counsel employed
by wealthy Jews, chief of whom were
two of the leading barristers of the cap
ital, Karavchevsky and Qruaenberg. , 1
JAPAN'S CENSORSHIP r i
: OF, BOOKS IS RIGID
Toklo, Oct ll.T-In Japan the censor
ship of novels is not exercised by the
libraries, but by a government official,
who is empowered to prosecute offend
ing, authors, as well as forbid the sale
of their books.1 Not long ago the author
of a Japanese novel,- called "The Great
City," was brought before ths courts for
giving too realistic ev description of Ufa
in Tokyo.. His-counsel used the old ar
guments about the Indefeasible rights of
literature, ana the ennobling of every
thing by srti but the esse was given
against the author.". Even aome of. Mo-
Here's works have been forbiddetf . to
circulate In Japan, the ground of of
fence being the lack of respect shown by
wives toward their husbands and by
sons toward tneiy mMra'Kj
SUPERSTITIOUS WOMANlS
TOUCHES WRONG CRIPPLE
"I- Paris, ; .i Oct '. 11 Mme.' '13etQwiltali':,-i
Parisian lady, who attaches great Im
portance to the punctilious observance
of that superstitious rite of picking up
pin s to insure t cooa . iuck, . noticed a
hunchback? th other day, while atroliing
In the Tulleries Gardens. .d ':-:.,.l .
' To Stroke the hump of ahunbhback is
regarded as one of. the ways of Insuring
good luck. - Mme. ; Betoulue, therefore,
discreetly approached' him and passed
her : hand gently and earresslngly over
the hump. Ths hunohback felt her
touch, and. turning round, attaoked her
with his walking stick and then threw
her Into a shallow pond,
. The incident Is to com before a mag.
latrate. 4 r "
Loss of Arm No Def ens to Desertion
London, Oct 11. -The loss of a' girl's
arm Is no Justification for hee lover
Jilting her, decided, the jury in a breach
of promise case at Mold, Flintshire.
After aha had become engaged to How
ard . Push, Miss Amy Jones met With
an accident -which resulted In-the am
putation of her right arm, whereupon
Pugh promptly threw her over. When
the -case ame to trial he set Up the
defense that a one-armed woman eould
not possibly be a sucoess as a working
man's wife. Miss Jones was "given a
veuyt of $121 and costs. .:.
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' iBabel Vale of. St, Louis was declared by Mrs. Btuyveeant Fish to be the most beautiful glr! In America.
' 2 -Sir -Edward Carson, the Ulster leader, addreeslne'an.antir-liorae rale tneetlng-.. j i? V
,'J Baron Makina. Japanese minlater ot foreign affairs, -who haa been bitterly attacked for ' the imperial,
' 4 Popular Japanese" demonstration against J..h Sovernment foreign .policy, towards China. ,. , .
ITALY'S QUEEN EL ¬
VISH HOME PEOPLE
Elen6a Longs to Return to
: Montenegro ' for a Short,
' Stay. . '
Home, Oct, -J 1. The Quirinal t offi
cially announced recently that King
Victor Emanuel, Queen Elena and th
four, royal children will leav soon on
the royal yacht Yela for a visit to
Cettlnje, . the capital of Montenegro.
The visit. It - became known today. Is
being made In the hopes that It will
restore the health of Queen Elena
; Since Montenegro first started the
hostilities' year ago whioh brouaht
about the bloody - struggle , in the
Balkans, . Queen ; Elena, , who is the
favorite daughter - of King Kioholas.
is 'known to have suffered, terribly.
Practically every day - reports were ra-
oelved by her not only of the terrible
loaaes of. the' - Montenegrins In actual
war - but also - reports of the intense
suffering which resulted to the entire
population rrom .the . famine and pes
tilence entailed by the Struggle, t v
i Only 100 miles from her home, -and
surrounded ; by all of the luxuries' of
the Italian court,' Queen Elena, because
Of, the neutral position taken by Italy
in concert with the, other powers, was
not allowed to extend to her - country
men any aid, even from her own bar
sonal Income. The . queen Is declared
te have been greatly affected. A few
months ago , she was sent to on of
the Italian watering places near Naples
in the hope that It would eheer her up.
; This having failed, : on of her sis
ters from the Montenearrln eouirt. waa
dallld to Borne to atay .with her. The
descriptions her sister gave her, bow
ever, of the terrible conditions in which
the Montenegrins hav been left by
the - war, are declared only to hav
added to he mental anguish, and th
moment v th war ' ended she insisted
on' the trip to CettJnje at th earlteat
passible-- inamsntv-; .v m
,. The .Tela will b' completely loaded
with supplies for the - queen's suffer
ing countrymen. Th queen ' herself
personally ordered and 'paid for .the
supplies which ' consist of food and
olotning and medical supplies. ' The
four royal children also hav been per
mitted to make generous contributions
and upon their arrival in ths Monte
negrin capital they win b permitted
to personally distribute thelr offer
ings. ' . i ; ,
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SLAVERS PLY TRADE
! r ' IN RUSSIAN ARMY
Cracow. Poland. Oct ll.For some
time past young girls of good families
have mysteriously, disappeared from
Cracow and It was suspected that they
had been drugged and sold into white!
slavery. A few daya ago the IB-year-1
old daughter of one of the most prom-
4-
inent. families was discovered In .a
soldier's barracks near Rakovlce in ' a
frightful condition.' Disclosures made
by her have resulted In the arrest of
a nest of white slavers, whose head is
a. woman of . prominence. . Many girls
hav been' drugged, mistreated and
sent to outlying army . posts for of
ficers, who 'in tnrri give them over to
the men . after tiring of them them
selves.1 Disgraced they never attempted
t return, . -
VERDI CELEBRATION -'
CLOSED IN MILAN
: Milan, lUly, Oct, It Italy's practic
ally all-year celebration of the centon
ry i of the birth of Verdi culminated
here yesterday T rhen "th - celebration,
which has been in progress alt summer
at Parma, Verdi's birthplace, was tempo
rarily moved! to Milan, .where the great
musician Js;burled.'tV''; v:y-i!''.':'''vH
The city wa filled with music. lovers
from practically every v eounfry In the
wold. The great majority came In "pil
grimages" cnlstinr of musical soci
eties and other Verdi enthusiasts who
Joined the -''pllgrinutfOen . route., : Italy
alone was represented here by more
than S0 of these "pilgrimages," whioh
represent all of the principal communi
ties of the country, and all of which
hav previously bold Verdi celebrations
in their respective communities. . . r
The throngs whioh filled the city also
Included practically- all of the leading
grand opera artlata of the - world. A
goodly part of them for th past month
hav been singing in the presentation of
the Verdi operas . which were given at
the Parma , celebration in their chrono
logical order. The exercises here closed
with the dedication, of, a . magnificent
monument to Verdi. Its dedication was
at the moment when the "Bala Verdi,"
the -roost , pretentious concert hail ' in
Italy, was. being formaly -opened . and
when mors than "100 ' monuments of
Verdi were being Unveiled in as many
oltles and towns in Italy.
15-YEAR-OLD BOY -
MAKES GOOD MAYOR
. Belgrade, Oct ? 11- When 'th mayor
of Mokrilug .became ill no suitable
grown man could 'he found to take bis
place, as all had gone to war. It was
decided to let his 14-year-old sonJve
a try. at the Job. he lad performed
the duty so, successfully that now-his.
father- has recovered tha clUsens re- .
fuse to restore the old man to the post
They declare that the boy not only more
thoroughly appreciates th responsibili
ties of the office, but has greater au
thority over th' community.
ITALIANS STRICKEN
j. . WITH SPY FEVER
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Chlaaso,' Oct. 11. The Italians have
caught the "spy fever.H In the past
week, in the vicinity of the Italian
lakes where, they are constructing new
fortifications near the Swiss frontier,
three Americans, two Germans and an
Englishman were arrested for taking
photographs.' - after considerable diffi
culty they convinced the authorities
that they were harmless .tourists, and
were released, , t . ,-" ' .
loS'il
German ? Murderer Sane and
Responsible but I ncapable
. Ji&ii of i Emotlon.V'i -
Berlin, Oct' ll.-8ano and responsible
but "emotionally dead," is th verdlc
today of physicians, mental experts and
psychologists who have ' examined A.
Wagner, tne murderer of Id persons at
Mulhausen. Wagner was a school teach
er and during tha first week In Sep?
tember, 'Cut the throat of his sleeping
wife and four -children, set Mulhausen
in flames at night snd then opened fire
with two ' aucomatlo . revolver on . the
scantily clad villagers "as , they fled
from, their burning homes. , . -,
Experts declare Wagner's "mental
condition as not abnormal but that he
is . 'dead to all feeling and emotion."
They compare blm to - the MoNamara
brothers who -confessed to a series of
dynamiters wnicn cuiminatea in tne
blowing up of . the Los Angeles Times
with big loss of lfe, and with Mra
Guineas, the "female Bluebeard" who
conducted th "murder farm" . in Indl-na."-.M
f.:'?;'S r,.:. , -, !.
As a- result of this expert 'opinion
that: Wagner Is pan and was sane when
he committed his crimes, he will In all
probability expiate them on th heads
man's block. In sharp contrast to the
punishment meted out to th McNa
marme, ';... "h?. &': f..-.C-?-;v'V---
Wagner is Placed in the category of
those "whose aoula are dead." Glimpses
Into the working of his mind are given
by-4hose who have examined him. Wag
Aer has no regrets and does not feel
at all sorry for what he ha dona He
regrets only that be , could not - first
hav 'finished off" hie brother's family
of nine persons which he had carefully
planned and for which purpose he had
Secreted too cartridges In his brother's
stable. He had first gone through hi
brother house noting carefully where
each member of the . family slept 'He
finally decided, he says, to start with
his own family, then "get as many as
he could" In Mulhausen, and finish, vp
wjtb hls brother's family. His capture
by lh villagers prevented, blm from
carrying out th rest of his elan.
Wagner, like the Rev. Father Haps
Schmidt, Roman Catholio prieat who
dismembered th body of Anna Aumuei
ler while she waa still alive and then
threw the part in the Hudson river, -declares
that "there are too many people
in -the wprld Who ought pot be here."
Like Father" Schmidt, he declares, "It
we're better that half the People in the
world were killed off." H calls himself
a "pessimist" and professes to belong
to the "school of pessimism" of -Schopenhauer
and Nietsshe. Wagner's trial Is
t be called In a few weeks.
$15,000,000 Railroad Station Finished.
Geneva, Oct . 11. One of the largest
and most expensive railway stations In
Europe ha Just been completed on the
Swiss-German frontier at Basle, .
With' $4,000,000 Owing and
; Broke, Lulse's Chief ; Occu
;; patlon "SrTooing", Collectors
By Karl H. von ATlegand,
, - '-. (United rress LeiMd Wire. I ,
Berlin, Oct 11. Alleged to be owing
more than M,000,0oO debts, flat broke,
chased by a swarm of bad debt collect
ors from France, Belgium, Germany and
Austria, who are "shoo-ed away" by a
flourish of the mantle of royal birth
when they approach too near her Royal
Highness with their sticky hands. Prin
cess Luiee of Baxe-Coburg Is awaiting
tne aeatn or charlotte, th pathetlo and
tragic ex-Queen of Mexico, to bring her
financial relief, -h. -"'-v-viV
Dr. Walter Inhoff, a Berlin lawyer,
has filed charges and ask for the ar
rest of the princes on the ground that
he "wa done" to the tun of ef $360,000
by tn princess. The courts in Vienna,
where she is making her borne, hav
thrown out Inhoffs complaint and re
fuse to order th arrest of a royal prin
cess on v such a common ' charge ; as
swindling. - r.. ' :.-.'J
, .' Tin Assortmamt of Debts. .
, Princess Luis is a daughter of Leopold,-
lat king of Belgium, famous for
the atrocities in his Congo country In
Central Africa, and for his love of wom
en- Lulae was born in Belgium, mar-
riea and divorced tn Germany, and by
choice Uvea in Austria. She has the bad
debt collectors guessing, It is difficult
enough' at best to collect from royalty
unwilling or unable to pay, but when
creditors have to vault or break through
the legal fences and traditional priv
ileges in three countries that hedge in
and - protect : royalty, - it ' le well nigh
hopeless. Luis Is said to- hav th
largest aggregation and choicest collec
tion of bills and debts of , any princess
in the -world.; t-..-,,-.- AK-vy;--!-:..
Princess Lulse has had a stormy ca
reer. Like Lulae of Toscana, the run
away crown princess of Baxony, who but
for her escapades would now be queen
Instead of the divorced wife Of a rouslo
teacher, Lulse of Belgium managed to
get a good' deal of excitement out of
Ufa- Owing to ILeopold's - notorious
fancy for women, Lulse's borne was not
much lot a home, even if It was a pal
ace, 'v. 8he married Prince ' Phillip of
Saxe-Coburg, Germany1, at the age of 17.
8h did not find a home then. After
a1' turbulent married life of tl years,
which included confinement in an in
sane asylum for a time, sh mad her
scape, and was divorced In 1108. Her
Sister, Princess Stephanie, was the wife
of Crown .Prince Rudolph of Austria,
who killed bis mistress and then shot
himself,,, or- vice versa, in 188. Ste
phanie married Count Lonyay a year
later. v- .:-i:;..rr.-i.;.--y.v:-
"booiag ' Creditors Set Excitement.
Sine bar escap from the Insane asy
lum, and making her home in Vienna.
lAilse's principal-occupation seems to
have been the making of debts, and her
chief excitement th shooing away of
creditors. When Leopold died she be
gan action in Belgium for a share of bis
immense . fortune, of which be did not
leave her as much '. as she a king's
daughter felt she ought to bava -
Dr. innorr, th Berlin lawyer, who is
aouklng , to have her arrested, alleges ,
that th princess took advantage of his
S3 years, when he mat her. He had Jubt
Inherited a large estate from his father,
Irt selling , the horses he met the prln.
cesa The latter , offered him a draft
for th pric of four horses...: Flattered
by 9 the attention of a princess, he ac
cepted. A day or two later, he alleges,
the princess came and . "touched" him
tor a loan of 12600, declaring she need
ed th money for the upkeep of the
horse.- Inhoff declares that it was; not
until long afterwards that he learned
th princes cold his horse immediate
ly for half the pric in cash for what
she had paid him in a worthless draft
RRINCEv OF FASHION '
; DISAPPOINTS ADMIRERS
London, !.V Oot 11. Clubdom ' received
a shock when Rlr George Alexander,
England'" famous aotor-manager who
has long been regarded the - best
dressed man In London, confessed that
he had worn the same "dress suit" for
It years. - In an article in a weekly
paper he 'declared that the subject of
fashion scarcely interested blm at all,
neither qn the stage or off. "The im
pression that drems makes either the
man or the actor is erroneous lie
says. -. "Perfection in dress, has ab
solutely no n-ltiUon to the succ-fHS -f
a piay. -
By .Henry Wood. ' ' '
Venice, Italy, Oct 1L Legal formali
ties were begun for securing the condi
tional release from the priaons at Tranl
of Countess Maria Tarnovska. ' In all
probability she will be released on pa
role the latter part of the month.
Tne- beautiful Russian countess was
sentenced in 1910 to eight yeara im
prisonment for having incited a youth-
ful lover, Nlckoas Namoff, to purder ,
another, of - her , sweethearts. Count .
Kamarowsky, that she might collect the
lioo.ooo insurance which he bad . taken
out in her name. Of these eight years
tha -countesd : has alrvariv aarvad - tha
two required - in s solitary - confinement
and an additional year In the prisons at ,
TranL Her deportment In that time '.
has not only, been so exemplary, but la
many respects so extraordinary, that
little doubt is felt she will be given the
conditional liberty, which i th Italian "
when the correspondent called at the -
prison at Tranl with a special permit to '
see the countess, the prison' authorities
were deeply laudatory of their prisoner. ,
"She will leave us an entirely different
woman.' they said. "She will leave us ,
a woman of God." In the three years
which - the countess bas now been . in
prison she is declared to. have given hr
Bsii eriiiroijr over iv roiitun wi.i m
fervor only, equaled by that which she
is declared to have formerly manifested
In making men fall madly in love with ' .
her and then pitting them against each
other , till 'they destroyed - themselves. .
When young Kickolas Namoff foil vic
tim to her charms she is declared to
have .embraced repeatedly In bis pres
ence - Count Kamarowsky until her
promptings and, his own Jealous fury
led him to come from Vienna to this ..
city and kill the. count
1M. Ma1v Kalldma ,
So f ervidly, however, bas the eountess
since given herself to religion that the
prison officials today declared it was
mis aione inai enaoiea ner io vurvive ,
the two terrible years of solitary con
finement which, se often proves fatal '
to Italian prisoners. Almost - every
waking moment of those two years, the
officials stated today, spent in a oell
barely large enough for ber to lie down
in and under conditions which exist
perhaps In no other prison In, the world
today, was spent In prayer, religious -chants'
, and religious contemplation.
When at last the two years were passed
and the countess was placed in contact
with ber fellow prisoners there was no
relaxing from' her religious practices. -Her
room at Tranl, which is large and
sunny, is shared with three other oris-'
oners. V Tbey are not religious, but the
countess prays and . reads the Bible in
their presence Just the same. : She at--tends
all the religious services la the '
chapel, repeating all of the prayers and
singing all the chants. , When from
time to time she is allowed to play oa
the chapel organ, it is only sacred mu
slo which she plays, instead of ths in
toxicating Russian ballet airs that were
formerly her passion, . . r;;
When In February of last year she -.
began her new period of Imprisonment
in contact with ber fellow prisoners ahe
was also placed at work with them. For
the first few months the countess was
put In the knitting and weaving room,
where she worked- on 'the manufacture
of the coarsest knit underwear. Un
complaining, bard working and aver re
ligious, she won the favor of the prison
chaplain. He interceded in her behalf
and had her transferred to outside work '
that of gardening. It necessitated one
more bard change for the former ele
gant, exquisite Russian beauty. She
was Obliged to don the prison garden
er's uniform, a costume of the coarsest
meanest, ugliest description.- She did
so, however, took her hoe in hand and ,
began her outdoor work. -.
'Works la 1-risom OardssV-. . '
It -was while doing this that she was
seen by the correspondent There was
no mistaking the evident ohange that
has come Into her life. The few months
that the countess has now been doing
garden work have evidently served to
restore her fully to her former health'
and there was still evident In her hands
and face and carriage all of the eld
feminine charm and bewitchery which,
had led so many men to their ruin.
There was evident also, something even
more striking and unmistakable, if even
more indefinable. In her coarse, miser- ,
able garden dress, with the hoe in her
hand, and the look of deep eontempla-
tlon and peace on ber face there waa
much in her that recalled the deep dig
nity, the deep sincerity and the deep
simplicity so evident In the pictures of
Tolstoy taken In the Jast years of his ,
life when he sought to solve th prob-'
lem of modern social living bi outdoor
manual labor. - ' .' ' ' ,v.' s '
talk to ths countess for a moment only, '
and to eonvey to ber but a single bit of -
information.- The countess speaks all
of the modern languages, having mas ¬
tered Italian perfectly in the year be
fore her trial. , and having In the year
she has been in contact with ber fallow
prisoners at Tranl learned the local ,
Pugllese de dialect one of the most
difficult In the world.- Shespoke Eng- ,
lish i to the correspondent-
She was told of her cousin, also a
countess, who a few weeks ago oommtt
ted suicide by hanging he- clf in a
compartment of the Saint eteraburg
Kief express train. The countess' brad
remained bowed and after a moment sh
Mid,Iowiy;-edsadlyM'
IC I could only hav died .in her
plaoe in order that ahe mlaht have had .
the opportunity I have had to learn of
the life I now know, I would have died
very happy ;inded.,i,i;;x;s'-;". "'t-'f
3 AMERICAN ENTRIES
, IN BIG BALLOON
Paris, Oct ' 11. Th United States.
with three entries, today was declarr l.
to have an even chance to win th grtnt
annual International balloon race l.'. ri
atarta tomorrow rrom the Tulleries. i -
sides the United States entries there are
II others, distributed as follows; Aus
tria, S; France, 3; Germany, 3; Co.. --t
Britain, 2; Italy. Z, ani i i H ! . i, . ,
The American entrant, l:n v -
lected in the elimination !''!
4 and. 5, luist, are ! .-'
and lils
Harry 1 :. '7 ' '
and Jcl ii
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