The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-01

OF every particular connected with tnefn.
One favour l have to ask of you, which is,
an hours talk with her ere die The
President promised that he should have
leave before his execution to speak to his
wife as long as he pleased. Spatelino add
ed, This surely will not be such a promise
as that of Sighor Rotoli, who assured me I
should be pardoned, and now takes my life
away All this he said with a cheerful air.
Doubt not, replied the President, prom
Use thee WELL rejoined he, I'VE shall see
what comes of this PROMISE He then add
ed, ,'Signor President we are ten of us brought
to trial, but of these ten all do not deserve
to die; / will enable you to tell which is in
nocent and which is guilty. Be assured.
Spatolino,' answered the President, we shall
judge them according to their merits The
trial commenced; and as each witness was
called to give testimony against the assassin,
Spatolino would rise from his seat, and say,
excuse me, you do not remember rightly:
committed that assassination in such and
such Manner thus explaining the minut-
est circumstance of every successive crime,
without caring whether he aggravated his
guilt, his sole aim being to involve in his fate
four of his companions, while he saved the
lives Of his wife and four other comrades.
He represented that his wife had always
threatened with death in case of disobedi-
ence. The four comrades last mentioned,
! he always exculpated, and with SO much eff
| feet as to save their lives, constantly assert
ing that he had compelled them to become
assassns much against their wills. All who
heard him were diverted; he kept the whole
audience in continual mirth; and occasional
| ly, on hearing laugh, he would turn around
and say, gentlemen, you laugh now; but 3
or days hence you will not laugh, when
you see Spatolino with four bullets in his
breast Turning to the spectators as usual,
on one OF these occasions, he noticed one of
the gems d'armes who were stationed round
| him as guards, and recognised him to have
been an assassin along with himself. After
eyeing him considerable time, to be sure
that he was not mistaken, he turned to the
President and said, 'Signer, / never could
have believed that the French government
would admit such men as this among the
gems d 'armes.' How what is it you say"
asked the President. 4 am quite sure that
this gen d'arme, who stands on guard behind
me, served with me for four years as an as
sassin; we committed such and such crimes;
we assassnated such and such gentlemen;
and that the truth of what ! say may be
proved, call that witness there, for his SER
The witness pointed out by Spatolno was
accordingly called the gems d'arme was
confronted with him, and was recognised to
have been the man who killed the gentle
mans servant. Even without such testimo-
nv, the manifest confusion Of face which the
gems d'arme showed, when Spatolino had
begun to view him, would have made any
one suspect that he was guilty. The Pres
| ident ordered him to be instantly disarmed,
and be placed as culprit on the same seat
with Spstolino. 'All in very good time said
the latter: 'here at my side thou art at thy
proper post; we have been assassns togeth-
er, and we shall go to execution together.
merriy enough The gen d'arme had not
word to say; he hung down his head, and
had not even strength to walk to his dun
geon.-The trial lasted eight days, and
think it impossible that there should be such
another assassin, with the presence of mind
to recollect thousands of crimes, and to re-
count them with all imaginable ceolness,
making his own comments, and manifesting
disappointment, when his remarks on any
particular individual failed of their intend
ed effect. For instance, when the postmas-
ter of Civeta Castellana, was called to give
evidence, Spatoino rose from his seat and
said, 'Signor President, thrice with my own
hand have wounded this worthy gentle-
man; on the last occasion, / shot him in the
left arm, and he has lost the use of it /;
shall die bitterly regretting chat l did not
kill him; for the postmaster of Civita Cas-
tellana has always been the greatest ene-
my that | have had in life, or that ] shall
have in death.
After this trial of eight days, the Com
mission passed sentence of death on Spatoli-
no, on four of his comrades, and on the gen.
d'armc; the wife was condemned to four
years imprisonmenr; and of the other four
assassins whom Spatolino wished to save
from death, two were sentenced to ten, and
two to twenty years. captivity in irons.--
When the trial was over. Spatolino said,
Sipnor President, remember the promise you
made me, that SHOULD speak to my wife,
Doubt it not, Spatolino, have promised
thee. and shall be as good as my word.'
Accordingly, the wife was allowed an inter-
view of an hour and an half with Spatolino,
in the strong room of the prison. His pur-
nose was to tell her the amount of his treas
pres and to reveal to her the places where
he had buried them. After this he caused
himself to be shut up in the strong room,
saving. he wished to be molested no more
by any person until the moment when he
vas to be removed to the Mouth of Truth,
the place where assassins are shot.) to un-
dcrgo his sentence. He would neither listen
| with and dpc1o nod