The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-27

that Anouier should be placed in close
confinement, and subjected to the torture
until he should confess what he had done
with the money.
An appeal was promptly taken to the
Parliament of AK, and a rehearing APP
piled for.
Anouier's counsel presented a strong
case against the ghost. Assuming even
that such a thing as the return of the
spirits of the departed were possible, GER
tainly they would not appear unless for
good cause. Why should the specter
bother himself to hand his treasure over to
an ignorant peasant, who would let HIM
self be cheated out of it so soon after he
had received it? Certainly the spirits OF
the dead have no knowledge of the future,
and are but poor Judges of men, or such a
custodian would not have been chosen.
He also made the most of the other
strong points in his clients case, such
as Mirabel's exchanging the gold for
a receipt when it was too dark for him
to read it, the fact that he was the
ONLY witness as to the contents of the
bundle: the little likelihood there was that
his fellow-seekers would have declined to
open it, especially as a woman was of the
party and finally, the non-production of
lllC VIM lA1l uooASbSes
to unearth the treasure.
The counsel for the ghost then took his
innings, and produced formidable array
of authenticated spectral appearances.
from the time when the Witch of Endor
brought up Samuel to prophesy Saul's
destruction down to the seventeenth CEN
fury.
The Parliament, however, thought il
had better hear something further, and or
dered a rehearing, to which the missing
Bernard was summoned. An important
witness he turned out to be.
He testified that he knew Mirabel well,
had lent him twenty livres, had heard his
ghost story, and gone out alone with INN
to search for the treasure. They dug Tor
some time and found nothing, whereupon
he accused Mirabel of hOaXihg him, and
went off. Subsequently he was present
again, at the same time as Magdalene
Caillot: but at that time, too, nothing was
found. Mirabel had told him OF his lind
ing several small sums of money, but he
never showed him any, except Anew francs
which he gave to priest to have masses
said, but witness was inclined to thlnb
these were part of the twenty lvres he had
lent him.
Pierre Callot testified that Etienne
Barthelmy, with whom Mirabelli lived, who
was his guardian, had called upon witness
one day to solicit him TO say that Anquier
had told him he had given Mirabel'S
money to sea captain. Witness, lndlg
nant at the question, kicked him out OF
the house. A lawyer of Marseilles swort
that Mirabel had consulted him with re-
gard to a paper which he said had beer
served on him. 1t was in the form OF
writ, reciting that as he had found a trea
sure and not accounted for 1t with the
owner OF the land on which 1t was found
he must do so within fifteen days OF
further proceedings would be taken. AS
10 such form of writ was in use, it was
manifestly forgery.
The evidence of these witnesses gave
quite different aspect to the case. Mira
| bel was himself arrested, and the trials O
| both accused and accuser went on tOgeth
er. Magdalene Caillot, on denomination
said she had never seen any OF the money
| nor believed any of Mirabel's yarns; tina
she had given the evidence she did on the
| first trial at his earnest solicitation. The
conclusive evidence, however, against Oul
ghost-seer was given by his own family
! On a dav subsequent to the time at whicl
he sWOre he had put his treasure in An
uuier's hands, he had invited his two
| brothers-in-law from Pertuis to come ant
see it. having, as he said, concealed it IL
the garden. He stationed them III one o
the avenues. and Withdrawing short dis
lance, made pretense of digging. Soon
however, he jumped up, holding before
him shirt suspended from two crooked
sticks, and shouting out 1.-The ghost! thu
ghost!" Fright at this unexpected APP
partition threw one of them into convul
sions and caused his death. Evidence wa
also produced showing the receipt to be
| forgery.
Anquier was acquitted and Mirabel sen
to the galleys for life. On being put t
the torture he confessed that the who'll
plot had been concocted by Etienne Bar
! thelmv IA bitter enemy of Anquier), wh'
had given him the forged receipt and tn
fslse writ, and supplied him with a few
pieces of gold to exhibit as part OF tn
! treasure.
This is the last recorded case of a ghost
! ly appearance in a French court OF justice
| The age of Voltaire was not favorable 70
this species of gentry, and not even JOSEPH
Balgamo, the Hermes Trismegistus of tn
new era, could galvanize them into life.