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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930 ™N No STRANGEST TALES OF ROMANCE avo MYSTERY ~ By Vance Wynn (Author of To-Day's True Detective Stories) TRAGEDY OF THE GOERLITZ The tragic death of Countess Boerlits and the story of how the watery surscuading that event ecame known goes far to prove the age-old contention that mur- der will out. The Countess and her husband lived in a mansion in the Neckar- strasge, in Darmstadf, if not hap- pily, at least; with an outward ap- pearance of harmony. They oc- _cupied separate apartments in the great house, but when they were both at home always dined togeth- er. | On Sunday, June 13, 1847, the: Count dined 'with the Grand Duke, put he returned early for the\purpose of taking tea with his wife. ¥~ waitod for her, but when she did not appear he sent her maid to say that he was in the dining room, The girl returned to soy that the door of the room of he: mistress was locked and she cond get no response to her re- peated calls. Much disturbed, the Count went to the room and found the door locked. There was smoke and a curious smejl as of something burning. We caused the door to be burst in, and. as he entered the room, found the body of the Countess on the floor dead. #He wos dreadfully shocked, es- peciclly as the relations between them had been strained for many vears. After he had recovered his self-posession. he made an exam- ination of the room. They had found his wife on the floor adjoin- ng her writing desk. The upper part of her body was burned to a crisp. The bell rope in the room had been torn down and a neck- Jace of pearls she owned was mis- sing. A later investigation showed signs of fire in three different parts of the apartment. A hand. some sofa was badly burned, the desk was charred as from fire and 'the center of the rug looked as if it had been the scene of still an- other fire. The police were summoned, cf course, and they made a careful examination of the premises, All of those in the house, including the ,Count and the servants, were sub- Jected to a cross-examination, but ito mo purpose. There were throe theories regarding the death of the iCountess--that she had taken tire iwhile writing at her dosk: that she was the vietim of spontaneous leombustion and, finally, that she had been murdered. Tho last géemed to be most probable of ali, {but the police were unable to fol- low any of the clues to a successful conclusion. The Countess Goerlitz wae buried, and the mystery, ap- parently, was buried with her, | Three years passed, hut in that (time gossip had not ceaced. The [finger of suspicion was pointed at jthe'Count. Nothing was sald open- {1s} but he noticed that many of his *former associates had ceased topvisit Mim, and when he called fatithe house of a friend a strange frigidness wuearly always greeted thist appearance, The time arrived {when this sort of "thing became in- 'tolerable. Count Goerlitz called jon the Public Prosecutor and de- imanded another investigation, He isaid that he would not consent to igo through life with this intoler- jable suspicion hanging over his 'head. This request was agreed to, nd the police promised to send an jbfficial to his house to begin a new, investigation upen the following day. The news sbread through the eighborhood, and the comment as now distinctly favorable to the Count. It was sald, with justice, that his-action "ras not that of a guilty man, He went, home to his mansion that evening feeling much better than he had at any time since the dreadful tragedy. He felt that in some way the weight of suspicion would be lifted from him; put he little dreamed of the strange way, in which it was to come about. The cook, who had always been loyal to the master of the house, bestirred herself in an effort to make an in- viting dinner for this auspicious oc- casicn, Several extra dishes were added to the usual menu. She had as4 sisting her a serving man named John Stauff. He had been with the family for many years, and was regarded as general utility man. On this occasion he appear ed to be very ill at ease. He watched the cook -furtively and presently his actions became so suspicious that she kept her eyed on him. After a while, when she seemed to be busy at the other side of the kitchen, he pulled & small bottle from his pocket an emptied the contents in the soup which was to be served to Count Goerlitz. The cook had been watching him by means of a mirror and saw precisely what he had done. Without making any outs ery, she went to her master and told him what had taken place, The Count immediately placed the fellow under arrest dnd sent for al chemist, who made an analysis of the soup. It was found to contain a quan< tity of deadly poison sufficient to kill a half dozen men. The evidence against Stauff was overwhelming, and the Count sus< pected what was afterward proven, that Stauff was the murderer of the Countess. He had adroitly con« trived to cast suspicion e¢n thd Count, and now, when a fresh ind vosti=ation was announced, he feared that his own guilt might pve proven. To avert that he infended, to poizon the Count sul then make it appear that the unfortunate 2 blewan had committed sulelde, | When the police came the fold lowing day, the servant made confession. He sald that thre years before, when he went to call the Countess to dinner, he had tSund bh-* rom *ipty:. The draw- er of her desk was open, and in it he had seen her valuable neck- lace. Ho was unable fo resist the terztation, and placed the jewels in his pocket. - As he did so the Countess re-entered the room and rushed toward him. She real- ized that he had taken her neck+ lace and was about to make an outery, He grasped her by. the neck and: pressed his thumbs into her throat. She struggled desper« ately, and he was obliged to use all of his strength to overcome her: Her eyes closed, her face Hecamd purple and her limbs relaxed. He had killed the Countess Goerlitz. + Overcome with terror, he let th body fall, and the head, strikin the edge of the desk, received a ugly wound. Presently he lifted u the body and put it on a chair 1 a sitting posture in front of the desk. Then he obtaiz:d a quant- ity of redhot charcoals and heaped matches and paper about the room. His idea was to make it appear that the Countess had been burned her 'writing table, Ho might have escaped punish- ment, and the mystery might have remained unsolved forever, if he had not made the mistake of com~ mitting---or trying to commit--an«i other crime in order to hide the' first murder. (Copyright by Public Ledger) at of -the Royal a collection o Baimora Family, which arrived in Montreal on the June 20. The collection, after exhibition in the pub to death while seated in front of | BEARS CONTROL NEW YORK MARKET Most Stocks Experience Downturn on Wall Street Today (By Canadian Press Leaded Wire) New York, July 7.--Only the bears seemed to have gained any strength from the tfiple holiday as trading In stocks was resumed today. The uncertain trends of last week gave way to an emphatic downturn, Important shares gen- erally sold off three points or light in volume, although nearly twice as active as during the clo- ing sessions of last week, when the market was close to a standstil', Speculators for the decline were cautious last week, not knowing what bullish development might slackening appear during the three-day sus- pension, News over the week-end contajned nothing disconcerting to the short interest. Although nothing but reports of summer of interest might he expected, some more long holders of stocks appeared finally to have grown distonraged, and there was a considerable . accumulation of selling orders at the opening. Several 'commission houses con- tinued to urge accumulation of stocks, but it is generally acknow!- edged that the near future, at least, remains uncertain. The av- reage yield of leading stocks has now exceeded the commercial pa- per rate by more than one per- cent., which has been regarded in the past as an indication that the market has reached a buying zone. The average 'vield of 90 Issues used in the standard statistics av- erages is now in exco of 415 per cent., while commercial paper is mostly moving at 3%. Investment buying, however, rarely makes the trend of the market, and the re-investment de- mand from the mid-year Interest and diyldent payments has been distinctly disappointing, The mid- year settlement period was re- flected by another tightening of call money today, which renewed at 2 per cent, and mounted to 2%, then 3. The effects of a settlement datc are sometimes not felt until about a week later par- venes to relay the return of cheques, Furthermore, lenders who placed funds In the market for employment over the week- end did not find the renewal rate of 2 per cent, very attractive, Several g¢ommodities declined reciprocally with stocks. Wheat dropped more than two cents, get- ting down to the neighborhood oY its recent lows , The day's news contained several chain stores sales reports, most of which showed moderate declines from June of last year when changes in the number of stores were taken in- to consideration. It is notable, however, that retall trade gener- ally has been holding up much better than industrial activity. Chrysler shipments in June were reported at 28,407 cars, against 40,644 in May. Among the widely moving is- sues, Ingersoll Rand, Allied Chem- ical and Case lost 8 to 12 points. 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