The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-07-16

| The Italian. turned as II to leave the
apartment, when .hs who had received
the money dropped the silver upon the
aoor. As It was now nearly dark, it
was scarcely to be expected that they
could find all the, pieces without the
assistance Of light, This the merchan I
fastened to supply; And unlocking the
door of the partIti0n between them,
stopped with a candle over the fioor in
search Of the lost coin. Iu this position
the unfortunate inAn was Immediately
assaulted with repeated stabs from q poin-
! ard, and he at length fell, after a few
|. feeble and inefrectnai struggles, sense-
less, and apparently 7lifeless, at the feet
OF Ills assassihs. F '@ f. ~'f,
A considerable time elapsed ere, by
the entrance Of a stranger, he was dis
covered in this dreadful situation; when
it Was found that the assassins having
first helped themselves to an almost in.
credible amount of money, had fled,
without anything being len by which n
1
retreat. .4. 4ss'f..
sIThe The victim of their rapacty and cru
city was, however, not dead. Strange
as it may appear, although he had re-
ceived upwards of twenty wounds, sew
eral of which plainly showed that the
dagger had been driven to the very hilt,
he survived; and in few months after
the event, was again to be seen in his
accustomed place at the changers board.
In vain had the most diligent search
been made by the police Of Paris for the
perpetrators of this detesta Die deed. The
villains had cluded all inquiry and in
vestigation, and would Ia all prababili-
ty have escaped undiscovered with their
booty, but for mutually cherished dis
trust OF each other. Upon the success
of their plan, the question arose, how to
dispose of their enormous plunder
amounting to more than hundred
thousand pounds. Fearful ofthe police,
they dared not retain it al their lodgings.
10 trust u third party with their secret
was not to be thought Of At length, uf-
ter long aud anxious sieliberation, they
agree to conceal the money outside the
barriers of Paris until they should have
concocted some safe plan for TRANSPORT
ing 1t to their own county. This they
accordingly did, burying the treasure
under tree about u mile from the BAR
riere ID Enfer.
But they, were still rs far as ever from
a mutual understanding When they
separated, on any pretence each return
ed to the spot which Contained the sto-
len treasure, where he was sure to find
the other. Suspicion thus formed and
fed soon grew into dislike and hatred,
until at length they agreed finally to
divide the booty, and then to separate.
1t then became necessary to carry the
money to their lodgings in Paris, in or.
der that it might, according to their
motions, be cquitabIy divided. F @7.
There existed then In Paris law rel
ative to wines aud spirituous liquors
which allowed them to he retailed at a
much lower prieewithout the barriers
than at which they are sold within the
walls of the city. This law gave rise,
among the lower orders of the people, to
frequent attempts at smag,l ling liquors
in bladders concealed about their per-
sons, often in their hats. Flie gems d.
arnes planted ,atithe different barriers
generally made prey Of the potables
which they captared and were collse-
quently interested iii keeping good
ook out for offenders. Z!
1t was this vigilance that led to the
discovery of the robbers; as one of them,
heavily encunIbered with the golden
spoiis, was passing through the Barriere
dEnfer, one of the soldier police who
was Oh duty as sentinel, suspecting, from
his appearance and hestating gait that
he carried smuggled liquors in his hat,
stepped behind him and struck
it from his head with his halberd.
What was his establishment to behold,
instead of the expected bladder of wine
OF spirits, several small bags of gold and
rolls of English bank notes.
The confusion and prevarcation of the
wretch betrayed his guilt, and he was
Immediately taken into custody, togeth-
er with his companion, who, following
at very shor* distance, was pointed out
by his confederate rs the owner of the
money. No time was lost in conveying
intelligence of their capture to their un-
fortunate victim, who immediately
identified the notes as his own property,
and at the first view Of the assassins
swore distinctly to the persons of both
t" the elder. as having repeatedly stab
bed him; aud to the younger, as his
and coadjutor.
The criminals were tried, fully CON
victed, and sentenced to death by the
but owing to some technical
fornlality in the proceedings, the doom
Of the law could not be carried into ex-
ecution until the sentence Of tho court
had been confirmed upon appeal This
delay afforded time and opportunity for
some meldling or interested individual
possibly by the hope Of obtain