Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-11

A%h w ling q upOh viz w
fore he was dead.
But such men as this robber found
no great difficulty in escaping from
the ill-built prisons of that day; and
while the audience in the theatre were
laughing at the adventures of the i'm
aginary Cartouche, the real Cartouche
was digging his way to freedom
There was confined in the same dun
geon with him a mason, who was not
bound, and who readily entered into
a scheme for effecting their escape
The mason having set free Cartouche,
and having made an aperture in
large waste pipe, they went some dis
tance IA it, and then worked their way
upwards. 1t SO chanced that they
came out into the cellar of fruiterer.
While breaking into the waste pipe
they had detached a bar of iron, with
out which they could not have remov-
ed the large stones under this cellar.
Ascending into the fruiterer's shop,
the front door of which was only fast
ened by small bolt, they CROPPED
about in the dark, but could not imme-
diately fad the door. There was a
small dog in the shop, who began to
bark most furiously, as small dogs
will when their slumbers are disturbed.
A servant sleeping in the room
above sprang from her bed, threw
open the window, and cried with all
her might:
"ThieveS ! Thieves Thieves J.
The master came down stairs car
rying a light, which would have ena-
bled Cartouche to draw the bolt and
escape, blt for another unlucky cir
cumstance. Four archer5 of the guard
off duty, who had been drinking late,
happened to be passing the shop at
the moment, and breaking in, recog-
nized Cartouche by the chains which
still dangled from his hands and feet.
They arrested him, and took him
back to prison, where he was now
chained ty the neck.
He affected al extraordinary cool
ness. He denied everything with
which he Was charged, jested with the
magistrates who questioned him, and
ate his dinner with excellent appetite.
In the meantime, the excitement in
Paris rose to the highest point. For
ty-seven persons were arrested charg
ed with being leagued with Cartouche
and the iruiterer gained a conSidera
BILE sum, by showing the hole in his
cellar through which the prisoners
had made their way. The trial of
| Cartouche lasted several weeks, but
he was condemned at length to be
broken aliro on the wheel, after hav
ing been put to the torture to MAKE
him name his accomplices.
The torture to which he was sub
jecteI was that which the French cal
The Boots. His legs being bound 0e
tween boards, an intense and most az
OnizlIg pressure was brought to bea
upon them by means of wedges, driv
en- i'll between the boards one atte
the other, to the number of twelve
He bore all this agony without be
traying a cOmrade, and without max
ing any revelation whatever. II
supped the evening before, and break
tasted in the morning quite as usua
5 and when his attendant asked him, a
; breakfast, if he would take coffee, b
.. said:
/, 1T is not my usual drink. | pre-
fer glass of wine, with a little bread.
They brought it to him, and b
!. drank gaily to the health of his tw
e judges.
And yet, Oh the afternoon of his e1
ecution, (the torture having take
: place in the morning,) he faltereC
0 and said that he wished a certain pei
|, son sent for, to whom he would max
e a communication. This caused som
l. delay, so that it was five o'clock b.
y fore he reached the place OF execution
J. He shrunk again from the prospeC
s of death, and demanded to see othe
: officials, to whom he continued t
IS name individuals, as if to defer the Fl
IS tai moment as long as possible.
d was not until two o'clock in the NOR
J. ing that he was bound to the whee
d and his bones broken by being struc
e heavy blows with a large club or bs
II OF iron. An immense concourse c
Y people waited all night to see him pl
g to death in this barbarous manner.
For several weeks after his deaf
IS there were arrests and executions c
a persons supposed to be members c
D. lis band; but if we may believe tt
e, journals of the time, the more thiev'
1T they executed, the more ro5beri,
is were committed. Thus ended Ca
g, touche, the Jack Sheppard of Franc
at Perhaps should add, that VC
D. taire, who had particular talent f,
N unbelief, and who was young ms
in Paris at this period, was very
e. credulous with regard to the redout
If able robber. He says that Carlo
e, che was an ex-chimney-sweeper, wi
to had taken to stealing, and who W
Il. much aided in his bad vocation
Sc the honest calling he had forsaken.-
en "He was captured" adds Voltall
I'd "in wine-shop, on mattress, with
he shabby coat on, without a shirt, wit
Is, out money, and covered with vermin
I'd But Voltaire was much disgusted wi
it. him, because poet had written a pa
10 ody of the Henraade-his own Hen
pg ade-using for the purpose the adve
lures of Cartouche. The account g
as en- above was drawn chiefly from t
ly testimony rendered at the trial of tt
m famons thief, who may, however, ha
lis attempted chimney-sweeping before
lie joined the band in Normandy.
be Y. Ledger.
I'd --
ur An Albany tippler swallowed ch
w from moiasses cask with a glass
is gin and molasses the other day, al