Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-05-08

therefore positively refused to send the
Ylate unless the maid told him what guests
we're expected. The girl, alarmed for her
mistress honor, declared that her pious lady
had no thoughts of husband, but st. Paul
had sent her letter from heaven, promis-
ing thar he and the Angel Gabriel would
sap with her, she wanted to make the EN-
tertainment as elegant as possible.
The counsellor Immediately suspected
that some Williams had imposed on her; and
sending the maid with the plate, proceeded
directly to the commissary of that quarter.
On the magistrate going with him to the
house aajoi1,'ng, stey saw, just before eight
o'clock, tall man. dressed in long vest
ments, with a white beard, and young
man in white, with large wings on his shoul-
ders, alight from hackney coach, and go
up to his sisters apartments.
The cominissary ordered twelve of the
police guards TO place themselves on the
stairs while he Knocked at the door and de-
manded admittance. The lady replied that
she had company and could not speak TO any
one. But the commissary answered that
he must come in, for he was St. Peter, and
had come to ask St. Paul andt the Angel Ga
briel how they came out of heaven without
his knowledge. The divine visitors were
astonished at this, not expecting any more
saints TO join them; but the lady overjoyed
at having so great an apostle with her, ran
to the door, when the ccmmissary, her
brother, al d the police guards rushed in,
presented their muskets, seized her guests,
and conducted them to prison.
On searching the criminals, two cords, a
razor, and pistol, were found in st. PauPs
pocket, and gag in that of the Angel
Gabriel. Three days after the trial came
on, when they pleaded in their defense that
one was a soldier IN the French infantry,
and the other BARRIERS prentce-iha.
they had no other design than to procure a
good supper, at the widows expense-that
it being carnival time, they had borrowed
these dresses. and the soldier having picked
up the two cords, put them in his pocket
stsntly shaved himself, that the pistol was
to defend themselves from any insult to
which their strange habits might expose
them in going home-and that the appren-
tice, whose master was tooth drawer
merely had the gag which they sometimes
used in their business. These excuses,
frivolous as they were proved of some avail ;
as they had manifested no evil design by
any overt act, they were both acquitted.
But the counselor, who foresaw what
might happen through the defect of evil
dence, had provided another stroke for
them. No sooner, therefore, we're they
discharged from civil power, than the ap-
paritor of the Archbishop of Paris imme-
diaiely seized them and conveyed them to
the ecclesiastical prison. In three days
more they were tried and convicted of a
most scandalous proclamation by assuming
to themselves the names, characters and
appearances of holy apostle and blessed
angel, with an intent to deceive pious aud
well meaning woman. and to the scandal of
religion. They were accordingly publicly
Condemned TO be whipped, burned on the
shoulder with red hot iron, and sent TO
the galeys for fourteen years-a sentence
which was in few days faithfully put in
execution.