Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-14
Giving the Sack.

!. Some eighty or hundred yea
} ago The body of man was lour
. in the Tiber at Rome. 1t vas re
, ognized as that of porter We
, known about the city, but a strang,
thing was that second body (als
, that Of a man) was found atthe sam
time, tied up in a sack which va
strongly stitched on to the collar {
the coat of the porter. This bod
was not so easily recognized, but th
straDgeness Of the circumstances Sc
all the authorities immediately t,
work 10 the greatest earnest, ant
excited much interest in the city
Before long, suspicion arose, whici
attached itself to woman o! doubt
ful character, who lived in the out.
skirts. and whose husband bad ali al
once disappeared. All, hoseYer
that was known vas this. that she
had lived unhappily with him.
Nothing could be discovered or
brought home to her, beyond The
fact that he was gone. and of course
she maintained that he had left her,
and that she WIS a much injured
person. Aud thus, as there was no
proof, offer awhile the talk of the
affair was dying out. when al at once
it Was famed into a H<me again; the
suspected house was revisited, and
the woman actually brought to con-
fess the truth, that she had murdered
her husband, and caused likewise the
death of the porter. Upon this,
without furtber ado, she was appre-
hended, and had to Undergo her trial.
The obtaining this confession, and
the discovery of what had haffled the
2isest heads in Rome, caused very
great sensation, but nobody seemed
to know how it was brought about.
Upon hef trial she said she had muir
dered her husband out of Jealousy,
and with DO help from any human
creature. The great difficulty she
found was 10 disposing Of the body.
At last she hit upon this cont,ivance.
She crammed it into sack, and sent
for porter with whom she vas ac-
guainted. Ii was then the dusk of
the evening. On bis arrival she
that S he had been
cleaning out her house, and had col.
lected great mass Of rubbish, which
she did not we'll Know what 10 do
with, or how to get rid Of; she thought,
it good plan TO stuff it all into
sack, and have it thrown into the
river. 1t was heavy. she said, but
she would pay him well for bis job
and give him refreshment before be
started With his load. The matter
thus arranged, they supped and Ca
reused together, and she piled him
with drink that he has well nigh
overcome. She then broaght out
The sack, and while pretending TO adj
Just it to bis shouldet. stitched it,
strongly to the collar of his coat, tell>I
ing him all that be had to do when
be got to the middle Of the bridge
was to lean il toward the edge, and
chuck the sack as far IS be could over
the psrapet, so as 10 get it clear out
Of .he say into the current, and she
would give him his money when be
came back; which, Of course, he never
did. She could not tell, she said, hog
it had been found out, but God and
tho Virgin Mother had brought it to
light; that vas the whole truth she
added, and all she had to tell.
When the trial had arrived at this
point yonng lawyer stepped forward
and asked her "if she had ever told
apy body what she had done, or bad
any sccomplice who could baye d.
sulged it2'
NO." she said, "nobody adbelped
ber,and they might we'll suppose she
would not be such fool as to tell it
to any living creature"
"What! nobody" The young law
yer asked.
NO." said she; "Only my confes-
sor."
Here was the solution of the whole
business; aud the lawyer soon discov-
cred that the confessor had broth
er in the galley, and calling to mind
an old custom that if the galley
slave Can be the means Of bringing
worse criminal than himself to justice
be received bis freedom, be arrived q
the conclusion that the galIey-slav