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

his pistol. He ought to have blown out mis-
brains. He Is only a braogart He went and
told i'm several places that something WAS going
to happen OF the day Of the review: that was
wrong" 40
| construct machine like that?n
"It was who traced the plan. have only
! lust torn IL up, or would show II you. The
guns we're placed in such way that they could
| not miss; but Fieschi fired too lste.n
On his way TO dinner outside the barrier,
| Morey had stopped at paper manufacturers to
| return passport to man named Bescher,
| which Fieschi bad borrowed. Coming back,
| Morey stopped at the corner of wall to throw
| away bag of bullets he had IN his pocket.
| Pepn the grocer, was found in his shirt only,
| hidden in a concealed cupboard at Maguy He
| had with him two blouses for disguise, nine
hundred and forty francs, and a volume of the
| works of ST. Just. Pepin had already been
| under accusation for having in 1882, permitted
! the insurgents to fire from his windows in the
! faubourg at the troops. The police also ar
! rested Victor Boireau, a tnman and q member
of the dangerous Society of the Rights Of Man.
| 1t was he who, on one of Pepln's horses, had
! trotted aud galloped past No. 8. in order that
! Fieschi and Morey might regulate the gun
barrels. Bescher, a bookbinder, who had lent
| his passport to Fieschi, was also arrested.
The trial took place before the Court ofPeers,
| under the presidency of NJ. Pasquier on the
| 3Oth OF January. So great was the interest eX-
| cited in Paris that applications we're made to
| the grand referendary for seventeen thousand
| five hundred tickets.
Fieschi, now the blood was washed off, and
| the plaster and poulticcs removed, appeared
| short muscular man, with high, narrow fore.
| head, hollow eyes, livid face, and thin
| pointed nose. His Corscan face gave him
| dabolical likeness to degraded Napoleon.
| His black hair was cut very short, and
| shaved over the left temple, where the wound
| had exposed the brain; second wound had
gashed his lett eyebrow; a third splinter had
| ripped the left corner of his mouth, and
| gave it q sardonic, grinning expression. His
left eye was closed, and seemed lower than the
| other. His little eyes were quick as those of a
| rat and much hidden by the bcOws. This mon
ster of bloodthisty vanity, calling itself patriot
| ism, wore black satin walstcoat and black
| cravat. He took snuff perpetually. and kept
arranging a portfolio of papers with gay and
smiling alacrity. He was never still moment,
| constantly rising up, sitting down, or turning
| his head from this side to that. He shook
| hands swith his counsel, offered snuff to his
| guards, and seemed piqued at their refusal. He
assumed the air OF great man, whose actions,
though mistaken, had been in pursuit of grand
! idea.
Morey, an old man on the point of dying from
! terrible disease, had calm, fearless manner,
and was treated with consistent respect by
Fieschi, whose death, however, he had no doubt
| planned by overlooking three of the barrels.
| Pepin, a mild, talkative, weak man, looked pale
and miserably dpprehensive. Bescher was
| eloquent and assured.
Fieschi, in some vague hopes of being re-
| ceived as evidence, confessed, in The course of
| the trial, the whole progress OF the crime. 1t
was plan struck out by Morey as earlv as 1924
| 1t was originally mere soldiers scheme.
81 said to myself one day, If | was in for
tress with five hundred men, and an epidemic
came and carried off halt of them, could
| defend the place with few people leftP had
! then an idea of mounting ninety muskets in a
row %H,o With that thought can motnn destroy yf
saw me at it, and told Morey, who came and
asked me what it was. replied, machine
that could demolsh Charles the Tenth and
all his family 1t was too complicated how
ever, beng ranged in batteries, and made for
flint looks.
81 explained it TO Norey, and he said, THAT
would do very we'll for Louis Philippe He put
the model in his pocket, but did not say what
| he should do with itn
1t was then arranged between Pepin, Morey,
and Fieschi, and the expense of the whole plot
coldly and carefully estimated at five hundred
! francs. They met one day, after dinner, at
! Pepin's appointment, in the cemetery Of
Pere, la Chaise, to make experiments as to
the best way of firing trains of powder.
Afraid of being seen there, they went up into
! the vineyards. Morey drew out his pear (small
powder-hornl and spread the powder, Pepin
! struck a light that went out. Fieschi then
| lighted the powder IN the middle, and his COM
rades seeing the good effect, cried at once "Ca
| va bien" "And certainly no way is quicker
and sharper than that" added the witness.
! They afterwards drank together at q restaurant
! at the Barriere de Montreul.
| The sums advanced to Fleschi were found in
| Pepin's books entered as paid to ''the Dauber,n
| as FIeschi was nicknamed from his griminess at
| his first interview with Madame Pepin. Boreau
lent tools to pierce the touch-hOles of two of the
| barrels. Morey had regretted he had not
| money enough to carry out another project.
| He had wanted to hire a house next the
| Chamber of Deputies, and blow up the king and
! the princes the day OF the opening Of the Cham.
| bers. He also SAID Che was a celebrated leader
at shooting.matches) that if he once got the
king at the end of his gun, he'd take good care
| not to miss him.
FiesChl especially insisted on his not being
| mere hired assassin.
| 'Ncn he said: 81 worked gained my bread
even while was about to make this attempt. l
| shall pass in the eyes OF the world as great
| criminal, not as an assassin. do not deserve
| the name of assassin. An assassin is man who
| kills to get money, but IL am a great criminal
| -un grand coupable. | declare that | re-
ceiVed nothing from anybody. They shall never
| say that / am a stabber. l mad goods trom
| Pepin, but ! paid for them; they were only
| sugar and triies.'
| Pepin's, who came, as Pepin said, to discuss
| some new machine for decorticatlDg vegetables,
| but more probably for political purposes.
| 1t was about five O'Clock in the afternoon of
| the 9th when MOTey arrived with the powder
| and bullets The guns were loaded for the
| most part by Morey. The mounting and load
| ing took up till after six. Morey then went
| out, keeping his handkerchief to his mouth.
| He also took off his July decoration, and
| turned his back to the people as much as pos
| sible to prevent being recognized. Ihe Oarreis
| that burst were found to have been loaded with
| the bullets, SO that they might explode and
| Feschi be destroyed. At eleven O'Clock that
! night after leaving Boreau and his experiment
| Of riding past Fieschi went home and tried TO
| sleep vexed and alarmed at PepiA's disclosures
| to BoIreau.
| The next morning very early, Fieschi went 10
| a youne CoIsican, named Sorba, to ask him TO
| be his second in a duel. 1t was only preteXtto