Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-03-23

father bring property acquired in the same
manner to his mother, who was not more scru-
pulous about it.
Astounded at finding such deprivation in SO
diminutlve a parsonage, the gendarmes doubt
ed hot his being the child of malefactor, who
had brought him up in some corner of the for
est. They availed themselves of his impru-
dent loquacity, which half glass of brandy
had increased, to question him as to his place
of abode They then learnt that it was an ex-
tensive cavern, where many people dwelt with
his father and mother; that he had been i'll trea-
ted there by some Young comrades, which had
caused him to flee; that he was very unhappy
bfcause his parents would not give him all that
he saw, and that he wanted food and amuse-
ment. A
The gendarmes inferred from these disclo-
sures that if the boy remained with them he
might afford such information as would lead to
the discovery oI the offenders, who thus shell
tered themselves in unknown caverns.-1hey
promised to give him food every day, and even
to put money in his pocket on two conditions.
One was, that he should take nothing out what
might be given him; and the other, that he
should point out to them such individuals as
belonged to the cavern, on his meeting with
them. Every such discovery was to be re-
warhed with the sum of five francs.
The bargain was struck without difficulty;
the boy was washed, scrubbed cleaned, comb
ed, newly clothed, and no longer recognizable.
Thus disguised, his two friends took him with
them to the town market. There the lad was
placed in ambush, by the side of woman who
passed for his bonne; from his station lie point
ed out to the two gendarmes such as he had
daily seen in the forest, and who came to mar
ket TO dispose of stolen articles. Upon this
information the thieves were successfully sei-
zed and conveyed to prison. This contrivonce
was successfully renewed in various market
places of the country; the number of brigands
apprelended gradually increased to such ex-
tent, that the boy, by whose dexterlty they
were captured, received the nick name of
" General Eafn." Though it was not to the
advantage Of society, for natures sake it was
consoIing to find that Fnfn never pointed out |
his father aud mother to the agents of the
law.
The examination of prisoners, and evidence
Of witnesses who had hocked up from all quar-
ters, on the stolen property being described in
IN public papers, soon, proved that those
bands of br,gnnds from the forest of Orgeres
were precisely those of the Chaffeurs who had
desolateo the country even in distant parts.
Several of those implicated in the most abonl-
Unable acts of heating, and who had been con-
tlemned to the hulks for burglaries, were
brought up to be confronted with their ac-
completes.
AT length all the atrocity of their infamous
deeds was brought to light with every hideous
and revolving circumstance. Public indigna-
tion was above all reused when three sisters,
the daughters ola wealthy farmer, whose dwell
hing the banditti Of 0rgefes FadjRgsdet, gave 7
in their evidence. They had burnt the feet OF
those unfortunate women SO cruelty that all
three were unable to walk without crutches.
Their conformation with the wretches who
had mutllated their persons produced the most
scene.
A single decree avenged society, and chas-
Used the iniqultes of those monsters. Their
den in the forest of Orgeres has since been
walled up.