The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1847-07-03
Curious Anecdote.

In IVA, q mar was broken alive on
the wheel at Orleans, for highway rob.
berry; and not having friends to bury
his body, when the exscutioner con-
cluded he was dead, he gave him to a
surgeon, who had him carried TO his
anatomical theatre, as a subject to lee
ture on. The thighs, legs, and arms Of
this unhappy wretch had been broken,
yet on the surgeon coming to examine
him, he found him surviving, and on the
application of proper cordials, he was
soon brought to his speech. The sur
gson and his pupils, moved by the suf-
ferings and solicitations OF the robber,
determined on attempting his cure
but he was so mangled that his two
thighs and one Of his arms were ampu-
tated. Notwithstanding this mutilation
and the loss of blood, he recovered, and
in this situation, the surgeon, by his own
desire, had him conveyed in a cart fifty
leagues from Orleans, where, as he said,
he intended to gain his livelihood by
begging. His situation was on the
roadside, close to a wood, and his de-
plorable condition excited compassion
from all who saw him. In his youth
he had served in the army, and he now
passed for a soldier who had lost his
limbs by a cannon shot. A drover re-
turning from market, where he had
been selling cattle, was solicited by the
robber for charity, and being moved by
compassion, threw a piece Of silver
81 can not reach it; you see have
neither arms nor legs, (for he had con-
cealed his arm which had been pre-
served, behind his back) put your char
table donation into my pouch, and the
Lord bless you." The drover approach
ed him, and as he stopped TO reach up
the money, the sun shining, he saw a
shadow on the ground, which caused
him to look up, when he perceived the
arm Of the beggar elevated over his
head, and his hand grasping a short iron
bar. He arrested the blow in its de-
scent, and Selling the robber, carried
him to his cart, into which having thrown
him, he drove Otto the next town which
was very near, and brought him before
a magistrate. On searching him, a
whistle was found in his pocket, which
naturally induced a suspicion that he
had accomplices in the wood; the mag
~istrate, therefore, instantly ordered a
guard to the place where the robber
had been seized, and they arrived with
in half an hour after the murder Of the
drover had been attempted. The guard
having concealed themselves behind
the different trees, the whistle was
blown, the sound Of which was remark
ably shrill and loud; another whistle
was heard underground, three men at
the same time rising over the midst Of
a bushy clump of brembles and other
draf shrubs. The soldiers fired on
them and they fell. The bushes were
searched, and a descent discovered in
a cave. Here were three young girls
and a boy. The girls were kept for
servants; the boy, scarce twelve years
of age, was a son to one Of the robbers.
The girls, in giving evidence, deposed
that they had lived nearly three years
in the cave-had been kept there by
force from the time of their captivity;
that dead bodies were frequently car
ried into the cave, stripped, and buried;
and the old soldier was carried out ev-
cry day, and sat by the road side for
two or three hours. On this evidence
the numbering mendicant was con.
demned to suffer a second execution on
the wheel. AS but one arm remained,
it was to be broken by several strokes
in several places; and a coup de grace
being denied, he lived in tortures for
Ave days. When dead, his boz
dy was burnt to ashes, and sire we'd be-
fore the winds of heaven. sts
RATHER HIeH.-fn California flour
is selling at $40 per barrel; tea s. per
brown sugar fifty cents per