Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-05

Cnllu can understand IT, SIulnUleu upol IL.
Since 1 have discovered it, I wonder that it is
not found out thousand times every day.
But, gentlemen, are you aware that l doubt
whether am really pioneer in this field :?
There are books, written thousands Of years
ago, which read when a boy, that have led
me to believe that this is one of the lost arts,
though it was known, perhaps, only to ia
vored few. feel sure-very sure-that the
simple law by which the attraction Of gravita-
tion is suspended was known in ancient Peru,
Arabia, and perhaps in Egypt, also, and went
down in oblivion with other lost arts, in some
general catastrophe. The same law discov-
cred while working in silver mine, 1000 feet
under graund, and my knowledge am ready
to communicate under the conditions that l
have named"
"But should you die in the meantime, would
not your discovery be again lost, and the
world be deprived of its benefits ?"
80, not at all. I have taken care of that.
Whether l live or die, or whatever may hap
pen to me, within ten years from the present
time the world will be fully informed upon
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 stran-
ger, who, after reminding all present Of their
promise of secrecy, departed-and was never
seen again.
Several months ago, distinguished gentle
man, resident of a great American city, re-
ceived the following communication from a
prominent solicitor in London:
"No.-OLD BROAD STREET,
"London, September, 1873.
"-- ESu.-DEAR "A short time since,
an Italian, who was the confidential clerk OF one
of my much esteemed clients-Signor SuzZinl, OF
the house of SuzZini, Isola y Co., of London, Ma
pies, and France-died suddenly, leaving in wri-
ting the statement which accompanies this letter.
What transpircd at st. Georges Hall, in Novem-
ber, 1866, concerning subject of the most absorb
ing interest to those present. has been kept pro-
found secret, under solemn pledge; but owing TO
the strange circumstances of the case and the al
most certain death Of a remarkable stranger, sup
posed to lie an American, whose re-appearance
has been awaited with the most intense anxiety,
for years, by those informed on the subject, Sig
nor Suzzin has considered himself so far absolved
from his obligation as to convey to some trust
worthy barrister in your city the information
herein contained.
"All communications received from you, will
be kept strictly secret ; but in any event, fyou
succeed i'll discovering the bank, impress upon
the managers the supreme Importance OF carefully
preserving, at all hazards, the documents, COM
mitted to their charge.
have the honor to remain, etc.,
"GEORGE MATHIoT MARSHALL
The following is the statement Of the Ital-
ian clerk:
"In November, 1866, a very important con.
gregation came together in St. Georges Hail.
Strange things were seen. Twas there. Much
money was to be gained. A young man, a
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. I fol-
lowed him. Across the Haymarket, across
Leicester Square at l. o'clock-and through
a dark and narrow alley toward St. Martins
Lane I could have done it there but others
came by and I shrunk back into the gloom.
Throug III St. Martins Lane to the Strand,
down the Strand to the turning of Waterloo
Bridge, still followed him. l 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 hid myself behind the
parapet BY and by my man came along
slowly walking, his hands behind him, and
his eyes bent upon the ground. When near
me he paused, and looked toward St. Pauls,
whose huge bulk loomed up still higher as
the moonlight tried to struggle through the
fog. I was near enough to hear him. He
said !: %, mighty monument, the pride and
glory of an empire, thy renown has gone for
ever. All see around me, though the work
of centuries, is but the amusement of child,
the labor of day. How powerful am l !
here stole up behind him, without noise
in future ages my name shall be- my
stilletto fell between his shoulders, and he
dropped like lamb. His pockets yielded
up a coil of wire and bundle of papers, and
his body went over into the river. All! |
knew how to do it. Ihad done it often be-
fore at Ferrera, on the Po.
'The secret was mine I was frantic with
excitement. I hurried home to my apart
men!s, double-locked the door, turned up the
lamp and examined my prize. 1t was the
wlre-the Identical wire-whch had swung a
cannon in the air, not two hours before
was impatient to test its powers seized an
iron poker from the hearth, wrapped the wire
around it, poised it aloft, let it 20, and it fell
gathering to the floor. l tried different arti-
cles. wound the wire in every imaginable
shape, and still with the same result. Nor
ming found me haggard and exhausted with
my labor, and unsuccessful. Business at the
office prevented further attempts until even
ing. | worked fruillesSl y until midnight,
when suddenly I thought Of the papers l had
also seized Fool that l was not to have
thought Of them before. They undoubtedly
contained an explanation of the secret. l
tore them open with eager fingers. All were
blank except one, and it contained the follow
ing: "knowing the uncertainty of life and
the dangers Of travel, have on this day,
(July 9TH, 1865, placed in the vaults of a
reliable banking house in the city of -- a
sealed packet containing the details and ex
PLANTATION 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 1st, 1876, and spread the
facts therein contained to the world My
knowledge is at present confined to myself,
hut will not long continue so, as | shall soon
proceed to Europe to mpart my information
to the most renowned scientific men in the
world My only object in making the bank
depositary, is to provide against accident,
and secure to the world beyond all peradven-
ture, the benefits of this mighty secret. %
There was no name nor signature. After
this, labored for months in vain to discover
the secret workings of the wire; until at last
it occurred to me that the stranger had said
at St. Georges Hall that the wire itself had
no power, but was only the means of commu-
nicatng power. Infuriated to the last de-
gree, | threw the coil which had cost me so
much misery, anxiety and suspense, into the
Thames, one night, where it could tell no