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Ills TE S S CHARGE» » _ . , • ' ' . °MrWitness Stabbed.: A woman named Frbkeii Fagerskiold wa i to liave appeared in court at Stockholm on Ttiesday in connection with her accusation against the Countess Taube of hayingInfo litVclvonrl Hnnnf. H 1qiiKapoisoned her late husband, Count Taube. Her non-appearance, it has transpired, is due to a most rernarkab15 'cause. Fagerskiold received an ano lyinous letter requesting her to meet a person at a certain place at. night, as the person had some important communication to niake. She went, followed. at a distance by two friends, and was met by some, person, who assaulted, stabbed, and mined her. When her friends came upshe was badly hurt, and she was removed to her home, where'it was' ascertained she had sustained sixteen knife wounds. The magistrate before whom the case is being investigated had in the meantime received a lettergfirskiold,” confessing to having herself murdered Count Taube by admini storing poison to bin 1 Fa ger ski old, lio wever, denies having written tliis letter. The anonymous letter to her, the assault upon her, and the letter to the magistrate, are, it is thought, probably a portic of a dastardly plot against the woman. The extraordinary affair has created great excitement in
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London News of the Week
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Dec 04, 1897
Page 9
Full Page
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