Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-13

| chned TO DO SO, Tor be knew he had Sone
| something wrong; but he at length oonf.s..S
| to his master, who Immediately perceived
that this mysterious affair was in clos, co,.
| nect;on with the universally spoken trial. He
| went to the landlord of the Snn, and asked
him If he remembered q stranger, who had
brought the deaf and dumb boy TO his house ?
The landlord recalled the circumstances, but
did not know the man his wife, however,
called him to mind that she had seen him
speaking familiarly with another well-knswn
man from the town, the miller 0verblink, who
had just stopped with his wagon before the
ooor' Ihey shook hands on parting and
called one another by name. The school
MASTER inquired further. He went directly 30
wverollnk and asked the name Of the man
Inc miller remembered the circumstance per-
iectiy, and said that the man was no other
tnan his old acquaintance the baker h, Of
tnat very Town. The schoolmaster, after re-
ccmmsnding the miller to observe the stristes.
| secrecy, had then come straight 10 the noiice
Inc psker was Immediately arrested and
examined He must have given some irupor.
tant information for the wool spinner. Leen
dert Van N, and his wife were imprisoned
during the course of the day. These were
the persons who had first raised suspicion
against the Blue Dragon, and had made sueh
well-founded denunciation against him. be
fore the authorities. The crime of which thev
were accused was quite different one from
the preceding, and had as little connection
with the carpenter and sccomplices, as the
latter with the Blue Dragon and his rela-
tlyes: Without the robbery, however, in
which the last persons arrested were no par.
ucipators, this dark crime would hardly have
been detected
We find in the dirty low room of the wool.
spinner Leendert Van N, on the evening
OF the 18th Of June, q company Of card
players, who, as regarded their sntecedents,
had much to reproach each other with. The
players were Corporal Ruhier, the baker
Ii, and Leendert Van n. They were
we'll acquainted, though they hated and de-
iested each other; but common criminal in
terest connected them together. The baker
and corporal were old allies; tie former
baked the bread for the garrison, and the lat
ter had the duty Of receiving It from him.
The baker employed the common trick of rem
dering the bread the proper weight by mixing
deleterious Ingredients in the dough. The
corporal detected it, and gave the baker the
choice ef being Denounced or bribing him.
He chose the latter. The corporal, however,
treated him hsrshly, and he, consequently
hated him
The enmity between the corporal and the
wool spinner was still more violent. The lat.
ter had formerly all the privilege of supplying
the garrison with CATERS, but the corporal had
lately deprived him of it. He had lost con-
siderably by it, and he was furious. The cor-
poral, however, had the power in his hands,
and could deprive them both Of other advan-
tages which they derived from the garrison.
They were, therefore, forced TO suppress their
passions, suffer this arbitrary treatment, and
feel honored when be visited them.
They were playing cards together. Without
such deeply rooted enmity, cards in such
places, and with people Of this class, are often
the provocative of violent disputes They
poral employed threats. From words they
proceeded to blows; and the result was that
they fell on the corporal in a body and
killed him. During the night they were
too terrified TO proceed in removing the
traces Of the dead. and in the morning,
to their horror, q disturbance broke out In
their immediate vicinity. Madame An
great robbery spread like wildfre throughout
the town. What was moro natural than that
the nearest houses would be searched? The
wool-spinners' was the very next, and the
boards, were still wet with blood, and the cor
porars corpse lay in the cellar. This must
be prevented, and the suspicion cast on some
one till they found time to remove the traces
The woOl-spinner's wife had the honor Of
devising the develish scheme, which seemed
to save them. The Blue Dragon might be the
culprit, for be had so often secretly climbed
over the hedge. At the same time be had
forgotten n handkerchief in her house, long
before which she had not returned him. Both
circumstances Tailed. The handkerchief
might be laid somewhere in the neigh borbood,
and suspicion would arise spontaneously The
bakers inventive talent came to the womRn's
aid, and one idea produced the other One
sign was not sufficient; a second must betray
the Dragons presence in the house. On q
market day the baker hsd completed bar
gain with a peasant just before the Blue Dfa-
gOon's house he had to settle with the pea
SAINT, and asked the landlord for a piece Of
paper. The latter gave him an old declars-
ton 10 write his account on the back Of il.
This paper the baker still had in his pocket
book. His name, however, was on the back,
and the account and his name were burned
off The baker followed the police into the
house, threw this paper Into a corner, and
then was the frat to pick up and hand it to
the officers. They had, however, acted too
cleverly, and their extreme caution brought
about the discovery, as is so frequently tho
case with criminals. Had they let the
wool spinner wife write the letter to the bur-
gomaster, as she ofered-she went afterwards
to Rotterdam TO post it-suspicion would hard
Iy have been aroused against them. The
d saf and dumb boy betrayed them, and their
fear soon drew the most ample confession from
them On the day that Isaac Van C and
his accomplices were hanged, the same fate
befeIl the baker H and the wool-spinner,
Leendert Van N.