, 1861-03-21
Killing two Birds with one stons.


Some eighty or hundred years ago the b0dy
Of man was found in the TibeT, q Rome. lt
was recognized as that Of porter well known
about the city, but stranger thing was that :
second body (also that Of mani was found 4
the same time, tied up IN . sack which was
strongly stitched on 10 the collar Of the coat Of
the porter, This body. not % easily recog-
nizgd, but, the slFangeDcSs Of the circumstances
set ali tue authorities Immediately % work IN
the greatest earnest, and excited much interest
10 the city. Before long, suspicion aruse which,
attached itself 70 woman Of doubtful character
who lived in the outskirts, and whose husband
had all at once disappeared, All, however, that
was known Was this, that she had lived unllap-
PLY with him. Nothing could b dilcoEercd o.
brought houie to her, beyond the fact that hs
was gone, and Of course she maintained that he
had left her, and that she was . much injured
person.. And thus, as there was no proof. after
q while the talk oi, the affair was dying ONT,
when all at once il was famed into ilane again;
the suspected house was revisited, and the ~
man aetually brought 70 confess the truth, that
she had murdered her husband, and caused ike
wise the death of the porter Upon this Viihs3
out further ado, she was apprehendod, and had
TO undergo her trial. The obtaining this comics
sion, AID tile discovery Df what had ba1lod he
wisest headsin Rome, CAUSED very great sen
sation, but nobody seemed 70 know how 4 had
been brought about Upon, her trial ahp nid
she had murdered her husband out Of JEALOUSY,
and with no help from any human cfcaturo.--l
The great difficulty she found was IN disposing
OF the body. AT last She Bit upon this coAtFiSs
ance. She craHimed il into sack, md sept lufa
q porter with whom she wns acquainted, u
was then the dusk Of the evening On BE Rrri-
val she represented that she had been cleaning
out har house, and had collected . great mass %
rubbish, which she did not vel know what .
do with, or how 70 get rid Of; she thought i
good plan to stuff i all into q sack, and have Z
thrown into the river. II was heavy, she said
but she would pay him well fof the job, and
give him rtireshhlent before be started with lhs
load. The matt thus arranged, lhey snpped
and carousgd together, and she soplied him with
liquor that he was well nigh overcome She
then brought out the sack, and while pretending
10 adjust il to his shoulders, stitched L strongly
to the collar Of his coat, telling him that when
he got to the middle of the bridge, % lean i TO-
ward tie edge, aud chuck the sack Us lar as he
could over the paTapet, 50 as to get 4 clear oul
Of the way into the current, and she would give
him his money when be came back which, q
course, be never did, She could not tel, Ne
said, how il had been found out but she supposed
God and the Virgin Mother had broqght 4 y
light that was the whole truth, sho added. and
all she had to tell. When the trial had affiy,d
at this point, young lawyer stepped forward,
and asked her ,sIf she had ever told anybody
what she had done, or had any aecornplice who
could have divulged L."
aNo," she said, @nobody had helped her, and
they might well suppose she would not Be such
fool as to tell It to any living creature."
"Whatl nobody" the young lawyer asked
"No," she said, " only my confessor.n III,
Here was the solution Of the whole busIness
and the lawyer soon discovered that tlif e9ns
fessor had brother in the galleys and ealing
to mind an old custom that i galley slave can,
| be the means of bringing . worse criminal than
himself to Justice, be received bis freedom, he
arrived At the conclusion that the galley 1I1go
had furnished the clue, which tnrned oul % b
| the fact. The woman escaped puniahment -
! the discovery had been made through breach
I Of the confessional. The hlher conlessor a1-
seconded as soon As possible. The young laNylr
rapidly rose 70 eInineace.