The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
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done. Won will stand overpowered with the
magnitude of the results that are to follow.
Think of its effects upon means Of transport
tation. When there is no weight to carry
may not even the air be navigatedp"
'Do you object to informing us how you
happened to discover this mighty and mys-
terious secret of nature?"
mysterious Why, it's so simple that
any child can understand it. l stumbled
upon it. Since have discovered it, | won
der that it is not found out thousand times
every day. But, gentleman, are you aware
that doubt whether 1 am really pioneer
in this field2 There are books. written thou
sands of years ago, which l read when a
boy, that have led me to believe that this is
one of the lost arts, though IL was known
ONLY to n favored few. | feel sure-very
sure-that the simple law by which the at
traction of gravitaton is suspended was
known in ancient Peru. Arabia, and per-
haps in Egypt, also, and went down in OBJ
liyion with other lost arts, in some general
catastrophe. The same law discovered
while working in silver mine. 1000 feet
under the ground, and my knowledge l am
ready to communicate under the conditions
that | have named"
"But should you die in the meantime,
would not your discovery be again lost, and
80 not at all. have taken care of that.
Whether live or die, or whatever may hap
pen to me, within ten years from the pres
ent time the world will be fully informed up
on this subject"
After some further consultation select
committee was appointed. to meet in three
days, to fully investigate the secret, and
take some action upon the proposition of
the stranger, who, after reminding all pres
ent of their promise of secrecy, departed
and was never seen again.
Several months ago. a distinguished gen.
tleman, resident of a great American
city, received the following communication
from prominent solicitor in London:
mo- OLD BROAD STREET.
London, September, 1873.
- -, Esq Dear SRA short
time since. an Italian, who was the conf
dental clerk of one of my much esteemed
clients ignor Suzzini of the house OF
Sczzini, Isola & Co., of London, Naples,
and Frnnce-died suddenly, leaving in
writing the statement Which accompanies
this letter. What transpired at st. Georges
Hall, in n vember, 1866, concerning sub
iect of the most abs rbing interest to those
present, has been kept Il profound secret.
under solemn pledge, but owing to the
strange circumstances of the case, and the
almost certain death of a remarkable strang-
err, supposed to be an American, whose re-
appearance has been awaited, with the most
intense anxiety, for ears by those informed
on the subject, Signsr Suzzini has co sid
cred himself so far absolved from his OBJ
legation as to convey to some Trustworthy
barriser in your city the information
herein contained.
IAN commune ,'iOns received from you
will be kept strictly secret but in any
event, if you succeed in discovering the
bank, impress upon the managers the SUI
preme Importance of carefully preserving,
at all hazards the documents committed
to their charge.
| have the honor to remain, ETC.,
GEORGE MATHIoT MARSHALL"
The following is the statement of the
Italian clerk:
@ In November, 1860, very important
congregation came together in st. Georges
hall. Strange things were seen. l was
there. Much money was to be gained. a
young man, Yankee-had secret in his
pocket. 1t was wire worth millions. He
left the hall. 1t was dark night-fog and
smoke thick and black. | followed him.
Down Regent street, under the gas
lamps, he went on foot followed him.
square-at II o'clock-and through dark
and narrow alley toward st. Martins Lane.
l could have done it there, but others came
by and | shrunk back into the gloom.
Through st. Martins lane to the Strand
Down the Strand to the turning of Water
loo Bridge still followed him. saw he
was going to cross the bridge on foot.
crossed the street and got ahead of him,
and in the middle of the bridge 1 hid my
self behind the parapet. BY and by my
man came along, slowly walking. his hands
behnds him, and his eyes bent upon the
ground. When near me he paused, and up
still higher as the moonlight tried to strug-
gle through the fog. was near enough to
hear him. He said 80, mighty monu-
ment, the pride and glory of an empire,
thy renown is gone forever. All l see
around me, the work of centuries, is but
the amusement of child, the labor of day.
How powerful am here stole up be-
hind him, without noise--'in future ages
my name shall be- my stilletto fell be-
tween his shoulders, and he dropped like a
lamb. His pockets yielded up coil of
wire and bundle of papers, and his body
went over into the river. All ! knew how
to do it. / had done it often before at Fer
rara, on the Pc.
The secret was mine was frantic with
excitement. hurried home to my apart
ments, double-locked the door, turned up
the lamp, and examined my prize. 1t was
the wire-the identical wire-which had
swung cannon in the air, not two hours
before. l was impatient TO test its powers.
seized an iron poker from the hearth,
wrapped the wire around it, poised it aloft,
let go, and it fell Gathering to the floor:
Again l tried, and agbin it fell. tried
hp in
every imaginable shape, and still with the
same result. Morning found me haggard
and exhausted with my labor unsuccessful.
Business at the Office prevented further at
tempts until evening. | worked fruitlessly
until midnight, when suddenly / thought
of the papers | had also seized. Fool that
l was, not to have thought of them before.
They undoubtedly contained an explanation
of the secret. | tore them open with eager
fingers All were blank except one, and it
contained the following; Knowing the
uncertainty of life and the dangers of trav-
ell, have, on this day (July eth, 1866,
placed in the vaults of Il reliable banking
house in the city of - a sealed packet
containing the details and explanations of
the means by which the laws of gravitation
are rendered imperative. In case of my
death or failure to return, the officers OF
said bank have explicit instructions to open
said packet, on May /, 1876, and spread
the facts therein contained to the world
My knowledge is at present confined tC
myself, but will not long continue so, as
shall soon proceed to Europe, to impart my
information to the most renowned scen
tiic men IN the world. My only object r
making the bank depository, is to provide
against accident, and secure to the world
beyond all peradventure, the benefits OF
this mighty secret.
There was no name uor signature Afte
this, labored for months in vain to dlscove
the secret workings of the wire; until a
. last it occurred to me that the stranger ha,
said at st. Georges Hall that the wire it
self had no power. but was only the mean
of communicating "A power. Infuriated t.
the last degree, threw the coil which ha,
cost me so much misery, anxiety, and sus