The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-02-10
a Romantic Story.


has just been decided By the Appeal Court
OF Paris, after having been tried before the
Civil tribunal OF the Seine lasi :, ear Ac |
cordins TO Inc statement OF counsl, per-
son named Pierre Lous,anneau, a native
OF one OF the sul a!iest villages Oh the French
side of toe P!rennees, emigraled TO India
IN 1777. He went through man vcissi-
tudes, in the course OF which be gave proof
of intelligence and courage. He a, las,
obtained The rank of general in chief in
the empire of The MabraI,as, and for eigh
teen Years WAS the post trusted and the
III ost pow srful Of the princes relrainers
la tact, ne exercised such great influence
that it WAS attributed by The superstilious
TO the artificial hand made of silver which
replaced the natural one that bad been
shot OF Ia action. The splendor Of his
rank In the Mshrstta empire did not make
LoustanneaD forget the valley in which he
was born. He embarked for France in
1SU6, but the foItune he had hitherto
found SO favorable at once abandoned him.
lie was shlp"recked on his passage home
aud Oh reaching France, after many perlls,
The first news be heard was that sum Of
SOOO,OO0,f, which he had previously
transmitted to Paris, was converted into
assignats, and only represented an amour.
relatively nsiguificaut. With this, how
ever, pa!trv rs IL WAS. he eet to work 10
make up for bis losses, and he invested
II IN tie purchase of iron works on the
Spanish frontier. The Spanish people
had just rlsen on their invaders, and war
TO the knife " WAS the watch~ard against
every Frencbmsn. Lou.annesn, white
visiting his works one day, MAS captured
bs band Of guerlIiss, taken off, and
Islands. He soon effected his escape b,
swimming out to French vesssl at short
distance from the coast. He as landed
in Egypt, where he remained some slime
and then proceeded to Syria, where bis
lossas and bis suffering preyed so much
upon hi!a that he became unaic.
u hile in thi. state be received shelter
from Lady Hester Stsuhops, ard WAS soon
joiDed by one Of his sons, who bad been
captain IL the Imperial Gusrl, and was
wounded at Waterloo. The captain had
to quit France, as he had given umbrage
10 the police Of the Restoration by his
political opinions. lie died in 1920. af.
ter Lady Hester Stsnhope's death, Lous-
tanneau, " the man with the silver hand"
as he W as usually called, WAS left without
friend. He was admitted into a French
hospca, where be soon died. 1t appears
that when Lous,anneau concluded his
purchese OF he pyreuHean iron works he
entrusted to Partisan jeweler, ramed
Lepine, diamond, the bsst present he
had cot from he ManTatia Price, valued
by bin at more than 600 ,0U0f and " hicb
be meant 10 have offered to the Emporer
and Empress of the French and it was
ibis djamon which Was the cause Of the
present action. J he heirs OF Lou-tanneau
coutended that the diamond had never
beeu restored ; and when the Civil 1ri
buraI decided against them, they main
tancd that if II had been restored it ~as
10 third party, WHO had no authority
20 Give n regular release The books and
ether documents produced at the rial bv
the heir. Of the i4vaI,er. Lepine. and the
,essimonv borne hg the DEPUTY -procureur
Camera! hi,nsalt 20 the honorabis charsc
Ter Of the dcfenGants, seem to have left 40
.foubt or this point The presiding Judge,
Vi. I,evlrue, decided that The receipt CIV
tn IL hir.i in e07 10 Lonsta iueau for the
diamcnd being stjll in the hands Of the
heir Of lepipe, sufficiently proved, accord
ing to the 26Zd article OF the Code
a. Il IL,