The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-18

and all ne WiS0e0 was 10 win RaOEY Nv tuG hVoN
OF one bundled or two hundred men, and chase
the stranger from the Rhine, and drive OIL the
Cossacks, who were jealous OF France. Fepn
then declared that the heads of all suppor5eIs
OF monarchy must roll along the streets ilAe
paving stones. A.,
On the 18th of February, the seventeenth
audience, the Court brought verdict OF gulltV
against all the prisoners bat Bescher, who was
acauitted; Fieschi, Morey and Pepin were
condemned TO death; Boireau TO twenty
years' detention, and TO oe lot tne rest
OF his life under the surveillance OIL tne PONCE
Morey heard his sentence with CAIN lu-
difference, Pepin with assurances OF MS lnno-
ceuce, FiesCbl with vain and verbose assurances
ofrepentance.
rplished the popularity he had acquired 50
dearly. Even the peers applauded some OF his
salhes. With distorted face and sardonic smile
he watched eagerly for his moments OF recrtmI-
nation or seltassertion.
The antecedents of Fieschi were soon un-
ravelled. He was Corscan OF Genoese eXtrac-
ton, born at Murato In li9O; His father, cou-
demned criminal, had died in voluntary exile.
One of the assassin's brothers fell at Wagram;
his only sister was blind. second brother, born
dumb, was so heartbroken with griet at the news
of Fieschi's crime, that he remained two whole
days without taking food
Giuseppe Fieschi was originally goatherd,
but being quick and adventurous, soon lett
Corsica, enlisted in regiment of light Infantry
at Naples, and, displaying much zeal and cour-
ace became regimental stad-sergeant by the
time he was nineteen. Entering Murat's Guards,
he distinguished himself by great courage IN
the campaigns of 1912 and 1874 and won tue
decoration of the Two Sicies. In 1915
Fieschi deserted to the Austrians, and his in
formation, it is SAID, contributed to his old mas
ter's defeat at TUleutino. When Murat was at
VesCovato, FlesChi rejoined him, and was sent
on important secret service to Naples. His
reports encouraged Murat 10 his rash aud fatal
expedition. On landing at Plzzo, Fieschi re-
quested leave to go first aud reconnoitre, aid q
very short time after Murat was shot down by
the gendaTmes OF MonteleOne.
Traitor or not, the man did not thrive. He
returned to Corsica a besgar, 10 wrangle with
his brother-iD-law for share of the traternal
heritage. Unable to obtain even sou, Fieschi
took the law into his own hands, and, like a
true Corsican mOss-trooper, drove of COW be-
longing to his brother, and sold it openly in the
mar ket place Brought before magistrate, he
produced forged papers to prove his right, and
was in consequence arrested and sent to Bastia,
Here he escaped to the mountains by leaping
from window twenty feet from the ground.
In 1916, when only twenty-siX years old,
Fieschi was condemned to ten years lmprison-
ment at Embrun, and to police supervision Tor
| life. At Embrun he learned the trade of a
| cloth-maker; and when he was released, break
| ing the ban, he went 10 Lodeve, aud practsed
| his trade. From there he went to the royal
manuiactory at Villeouvette, conducting him.
self there well, and with pretense OF religion.
| Coming to Paris, he obtained help from his old
| commander, and became porter at newspaper
| office and spy OF the police.
1t was at this time that he sought helD of
| Morey, and described himself as wTetched as the
dog that looks for food at O street corner. Most
men, he afterwards said, in such misery, must
| have gone mad or thrown themselves out OF the
| window. 1t was in this poverty and despair that
men like Morey took advantage of his cunning,
| reCklessness, and inordinate vanity. The Gov
eminent observing that q sort of boastful graft.
| tude was leading point in his character per-
| suaded HIM to disclose the plot TO his old bene-
| factor, M. Ladvocat.
The king, in acknowledgement forgave Fieschi
the parricde's penalty of wearing black veil
on the scaffold, and walking to the guilotine
with bare feet. While he was undergoing the
toilette, be merely said:-
IT'S it not heart-breaking that should be the
first executed for political causes since 1880? l
would rather have remained on the field at
BeresIna."
Pepin was cruelty bound in the camisole.
While his hair was being cut off, he said to
Fieschi;--
81 am your victim"
Fieschi was going 10 reply, but his confessor
stopped him. Fieschi then threw himself at
Pepin's feet, and begged him to tell the whole
truth, as he had done, that he might appear
before God without fear.
Pepin heaved a sigh and replied, "No, l can
say nothing. will not compromise fathers of
| tamiles.n
As for Morey, he was so weak that he had
to, be lifted on TO the scafold; but he SAID
! calmly
at is not courage want, but legs"
The scafold had only been erected at quar-
! ter before seven; at quarter past eight the
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| before vast crowd that filed every avenue
! Pepin was calm and resigned, and declared his
| innocence to the last. "Since must die, | will
! die. 1 have nothing more TO say" he replied to
| the police agent, who, viii i,e he was being
| strapped to the plank, still urged him to con-
| iession. He died first.
MoreY then ascended, calm and imperturba-
BILE; the plank went down, the old mans neck
was clipped by the lunette- second head rolled
| into the sawdEst.
Fieschi said to the people that he had told
| the truth, and died without fear. Fieschi left
his head to Nina Lassave. IN order that she
might benefit by the sale of plaster-casts taken
from it. The doctor who had healed Fieschi's
wounds opened the skull to see how the cure
had operated. The poor girl Nina was hired
few days after as dame du compton in the Cafe
de la Renaissance, in the Place de la Bourse.
There, in fame-colored satin, and with rich
ornaments in her hair, the miserable creature
| sat- at salary of one thousand francs month.
The cafe was daily thIonged by unteeling
| idleTs, who launched at her cruel sarcasms re-
proaches, and disgusting ribaldry, until Nina
! often tainted, and was carried out of the room
When she returned and resumed her seat, she
used 10 pathetically entreat that sport might
not be made of her misfortunes. She is de-
with q Vulear expression, and with two fingers
eaten off her right hand by scofula.
The massive oak frame of the internal ma
chine, with its split gun barrels, may still be
seen at Mime Tassaud's, that indetatgable old
lady having instantly pounced on the relic of a
remarkable crime.
The Internal machine was not an original
thought of Fieschi's, for, in the year 1889, a
matchmaker named Brillon, being expelled from