The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-03-05

20 his surprise, forty men waiting
who were TO help him to arrest Kelch
After long discussion, he agrreeC
20 take three of them, whom he care
ully picked from the number; ant
after having received written or
Ter, explicitly commanding him t.
oring the assassin dead or alive, b.
started on his dangerous errand.
They went at once TO the restau
rant, where Keleh was in the habit O
tropplng in several times a day, anC
ordered dinner for six persons. A
six O'Clock precisely, On q secont
Friday, certain Morelli entered
who had just crossed over from Lon
don in order to help Kelch, an,
isked when the latter was likely t
come in. They told him at min
O'Clock and when the hour struck
Kelch arrived. While he was drink
ling a glass OF absinthe, one OF tin
men was ordered to arrest Morelli
and when this was done quietly il
an adjoining room, Griscelii ant
another officer fell upon Kelch. tn,
latter, however, escaped by a gigan
tic effort, ran swiftly through til,
dining room and several chambers
! jumped out of the window and fel
inside of little courtyard from
which 6 door led into the street. i
tthat gate had been open, the whole
work OF the fortnight would have
been lost, the murderer would have
escaped, and Louis Napoleon might
not have lived TO see his dynasty
established. But Griscelli drew cour
age Ouce more from his fataiistic
belief that Friday brought i'll luck to
his victim, and that his two attacks
Of vertigo foretold the shedding oil
blood. He followed Kelch, who,
when he found that he could not
open the door aud that his crime was
detected, resolved to sell his life at
the utmost price. He rose and
cooked his pistol; Griscelli did the
same, and fer few seconds the two
men looked at each other in silence,
then an explosion was heard, and
when the smoke cleared off kelch was
seen lying on the stones, bathed ill
blood The ball had entered at the
nose, passed through the right eye
and came out behind the ear. His
own ball had merely grazed the ear
of Griscelli. AT the noise his ac
complice, Morelli, came into the court,
and, seeing what had happened, tried
to jump over the wall, but the secret
agent was too quick for him he fire /
again, and the ball broke Morelli's
right shoulder. disabling him in
stantly.
AZ ten o'clock the two emissa
ries of Mazzini were ia the ya-d OF
the Prefect of Police. NJ Pietri was
overjoyed; he embraced his energetic
favorite, and then FASTENED to an
nounce the good news ut the Tuiler-
les, where all the Ministers were as-
sembled, full of anxiety on account
of this first attempt on the life of the
Emperor.
The latter sent at once for GIiscelli
and gave him gratuity of ten thOus-
and francs; the Minister Of Police
added large sum, and the Empress
promised to provide for his daughter,
till she reached the age of eighteen,
at convent school which she had
taken under her special control. All
the court officers FASTENED, as a mat
ter OF course, to congratulate the
favorite of their master on his bril-
liant success.
On the following day the secret
agent was summoned to the cabinet
of the Emperor, and there, in the
presence of the principal officers OF
the Imperial household, he was in
formed that from that day it would
be his duty to watch over the per
sonal safety of Louis Napoleon, to
accompany him everywhere, abroad
and at home, except in the interior
of the palace, and that no one would
be allowed to approach the person of
the Emperor without his having been
informed of the desire beforehand.
During the Emperor's travels in the
provinces the gendarmes and the po-
lice were to be only under his orders,
and all the responsibility would rest
on his shoulders.
Thus il was that the poor, illiterate
boy came to live in intimacy with the
greatest sovereign of our day, and
the Corslcan shepherd became the
secret agent of an Emperor who
him in some of the grav-
est affairs and most startling adven
lures with which bis checkered life
has abounded even ia later years.