The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-09-22
VOL. lX.-NO. 10.
The Priest and the RObber.

I nc PclCSl ana TIC NOBDtIs
A TRUE STORY.
Forty years ago, the scenes related occur
red in the heart of France. A Roman
Catholic Priest was called on TO prepare
for his last change, highway robbcr, a.
bout to perish on the scailold. The good
father used all his e!oluence and his efforts,
to lead the prisoner TO repent OF his aggra-
waited crimes, in vain. lie observed that
the mind of the latter was absorbed-that
he seemed to heed him not. What could
engage his thoughts at such an awful hour!
Do you reflect, said the priest, that in two
hours you are to appear before your Maker?
do, said the criminal, but wish just now
to live and repent, not TO repent and die
and the thought has come into my brain,
and / can't for the soul Of me, drive it out,
that you are tie very man TO save me from
death, not to pave my way TO it. But, said
the priest, even if had the power, and
can't see that have, should / not DC doing
a wrong to mankind by setting You free,
and be subjecting you TO farther load OF
guilt? Ifthat's the only obstacle in the way,
you may, my good father, he entirely easy
on that score. have seen the scaflold too
near, ever to expose myself TO its teitorS a
gain. Never will | rob or defraud more.
| will be hencefor'h a changed man. With
eyes implorng and bathed in tears, he knelt
before the holy man, and begged his lille.
/ lie appealed 10 a kind heart, and saw the
impression he had made. The chapel in
which they were, was lighted only by
window near the ceiling, aud as more than
fifteen feet from the floor. You have but,
said the prisoner, toput your chairnpon the
altar, which we can place near the wall;
! hpn p,,I IN no r /
mount upon your shoulders, from which l
can gain the window.
In an instant the criminal was beyond
the reach the law. The priest remained
TRANQUILITY seated in the chair, having restO-
red the altar to its place. Some hours after
the flight, the hangman was impatient at
the long prayers of the priest, who, he
= Thought, might have put hall-a-dozen souls
Oh the road to heaven in less time, knocked
at the door. Not seeing the prisoner, he
demanded what had become Of him. He
angel of light, said the father
So. EOTIgi'eSSt' he went out by
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