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THE SYREN COUNTESS.
LONDON, April 18.
The trial in Venice of the Countess Marie
Tarnowski, daughter of Colonel Count
O'Rorke, the descendant of an Irish family
which about a century ago emigrated to
Russia, and the divorced wife of Count
Tarnowski, for instigating the murder of
one of her lovers, Count Paul Kamarowski
was advanced a further stage yesterday
when evidence was adduced by several ex-
perts as to her mental and physical con-
dition.
They stated that she was suffering from
hysteria resulting from the abuse of drugs.
Frequently witnessing suicides and homi-
cides committed on her account had so in-
fluenced her that the clause in the Criminal
Code regarding the diminished responsi-
bility of a culprit were applicable to her
case.
This testimony, however, was contra-
dicted by other experts, who denied that
she was in any way bereft of her intelli-
gence.
One of her husband's brothers committed
suicide for love of the accused. For the
same reason a Count Tolstoi took poison.
and a Count Stobel was killed in a duel.
On another occasion her husband shot dead
a man who had just been kissed by his
wife. The husband was acquitted on that
charge of murder, but the tragedy, which
occurred in Kieff, so scandalised society
that the pair had to leave the city.
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