American mechanic and home journal., 1849-11-16

the young women, fool though mothers, even fot less lowly station, would point her out to their own giddy geese, and cry ~ Take pat tern from poor Lima p
 Suddenly she appeared to grow timerous and melancholy; and, one day, was seen by a neighbor to hurry from her masters house in fearful agitation. Peter Gortz pursued. but missed her; the neighbors sought with l better fortune, and overheard her muttering to herself " The Virgin forbid should be so rash-yet anything rather than thatt can bear it no longer" This man instantly seiz- ed and questioned her on the meaning of these words; but as she only trembled blushed and wept, he forcibly led her back to her master. who looked pleased at her return, and on what she had said being repeated to him, merely laughed out, " 1 was too strict this morning, perhaps silly wench don't quarrel with thy second father" What was this per- sons amaze, when next morning his wealthy neighbor ran to him, all alright, with the ti- dings that his house had been robbed of gold and plate to large amount, though no locks were broken, and his servant either murder 1 ed carried off alive, which seemed most likely, everything that had belonged to her was missing, and no sounds of contention had disturbed her master in the night. The me- naces she had used tempted the nearer at once to suspect her, though the loser did not.
 
 road to her native village. Officers of just 1 ice pursued that route, and overtaking a wa gon, whose driver looked alarmed at their appearance, insisted on searching 1t. There, indeed, they found a female, ans>-.Ssszss tho desc43,tia., eIvrrr, hidden with her trunk amid the straw. She denied her name, but a sheathed knife found about her. on which it was graven. Well" she cried as if bewildered, |" no law can force my return to him. Not needing her, they lifted out the box. Tis heavy enough" said one, sigHifi- cantly. Is it 2" she screamed to the driver This appeal caused them to arrest him also. Falling his knees, he swore, by all the saints, that he only knew this girl, as having hired him, in the next town to come private ly to certain house, for herself and baggage; that he had gone. stolen in, moved the box from her chamber to his wagon, where, by another brbe she had induced him to conceal her. The lid was forced, and at the bottom of her wardrobe, sewn into some articles of , apparel were discovered a sum of money, and several articles of silver, bearing the in- itials of Peter Gortz. In positive distraction Caroline shrieked :" 1 refused to be his wife, and 1 told him I would leave him. Oh. he threatened to punish me-" You had threat ened it too" said of her captors, |" and now, of course, would fain criminate your accuser." Nay, then I am lost indeed P she cried, and was conveyed to the prison of the town she had just left, amid the execrations of it's assembled inhabitants, who had never before heard of such way as hers for re- putting an offer of marriage from superior. She was tried immediately on her aPPre- hension. Who could bear witness in her fla vor! Who knew her so well as Peter Gertz himself! He gave his evidence with ex- treme reluctance everything tended to prove l her guilt. She was condemned to die with out delay. yet the priest who attended her could gain avowal of the theft. Finding her so impenitent, he tried all the power of nerving her for the awful fate she was to meet. l cannot grace my story with a word of praise of her heroism. She begged for time she supplicated the virgin to interpose and save her young days; she grovelled at l the feet of her guards. Her shrieks and
 groans rung from the very scaffold. She struggled with her executioner, till even he
 was overpowered by her pleading beauty At length her strength and reason failed, she became insensible. The fatal cord was .ad- liusted, and the poor wretch left to hang for the usually appointed hour. II Her body, according to the sentence of the law, was given for dissection. It fell to tho Il lot of a rising anatomist, named Ebreson, who had it conveyed to the wonted scene of his scientific Iigils, a large arched cellar beneath
 his house, chosen for its coolness yet its air was noisome, and its walls discolored. 1t
 was lighted from the ceiling by an antique lamp, whose rays fell upon the instruments
 of his labor, and the still more terrific look