Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06

stoutly protested his innocence. and
i denied his identit alling himself one.
Sean B0urguign0n,sac 0untryman. -
Meanwhile 10 was well cared for,
he received crowds Of distinguished
visitors. and fashionable ladies atten-
ded his levees. The most distin.
guished of these was the Marechale de
Boufiers, widow of the gallant general
who lost the battle of Malplaquet.
One warm summer night in July, 1921,
] just as the lady had retired to bed.
leaving her window little open for
air, she drew the curtain aside, and to
her horror saw q mans face close to
her own. She made snatch for the
bell.cords, but the intruder seized her
hands, opened his blouse, displaying a
! rich but faded costume, with a COM
| plete armory of silver-mOunted pistols
and knives, and introduced himself rs
Louis Dominique Cartouche. He had
narrowly escaped the watchful eyes
of the police, then in hot pursuit of
him, by climbing the balcony; no one,
he said, would dream of looking for
him there, and he proposed to remain.
He was:hungry and tired, however, and
wanted supper and i bed. Quaking
with fear, the Marechale rang the bell,
ordered her astonished servants to
| bring her a hearty supper and bottle
of champagne, and when it came locked
her door and watched the voracious
robber us he disposed of all that was
set before him. His repast ended,
he apologized for incOmmoding her,
stretched himself out on the sofa in
her dressing-r0om and went to sleep.
At 3, A. NJ. he rose, babe her good-day
and vanished. She sprang out of bed,
closed the windows, and alarmed the
house. Search was made among the
valuables. but not an article was miss
ing; even the costly silver used for the
supper had been spared by the eccen-
trio thief. Some days later the Mare
chale received basket of excellent
champagne(stOlen from a Partisan wine
merchant) with the compliments of NJ.
Cartuche.
The robber chief had been placed in
one of those horrible subterranean dun
! geons destroyed in 1850 by the humane
l
companion in trouble who had former
ly worked as a stone mason; together
they succeeded in making a breach in
the wall of their cell, thence following
4 ditch connected with the sewerage
of the prison they broke into the cellar
of neighboring house. Here howev-
er, fortune ceased to befriend them.
Cartouche was rearrested while ell
deavoring to leave the house and
placed in closer custody than before.
His trial went forward with unex-
ampled rapidity. and on Nov. %, l72l,
Cartouche and four of his companions
were ordered to be broken on the
wheel, after having been previously
submitted to the question ordinary and
extraordinary, with the view OF ex-
torting confession. The records relat-
ing to Cartouche reports the applica-
ton of the question in the form Of the
brodequins or boots. These were
wooden frames fitted to the legs, into
which wedges Of increasing size were
forcibly driven until the legs of the
sufferer were reduced to pulp. ION
the application of the first. second, and
third wedge, he answered that he was
innocent. At the fourth he answered
that he knew not what they were
speaking of. At the fifth that he was
| innocent; was dying. At the sixth
that he had done all that was required
of him; had done no wrong; WAS
dying. At the seventh, was innocent;
| no accOmplices. At the eighth and
last, was innocent.
Although he thus refused to confess
under torture. he became conmumica-
tive enough when he reached the SCAT
fold, protesting. however, much to his
| credit, that he had never robbed a
church. although often melted 80 to do
by Duchatelet. He absolved his own
family with especial earnestness from
any share in his misdoings. He re-
Trained from denunciations. even of
those who had deserted or BETRAYED
him, excepting only Duchatelet, to.
| wards who he evinced intense scOrn
! and hatred. But i'll revenge he was
unsparing in respect to the spies and
receivers of the gang, whom he de-
nOunced by the score. He avowed him.
self the head and chief of the numer-
GUS band, so long the terror of the cap
| ital, an assertion amply confirmed by
the confusion and indiscipline, which
| on his decease became suddenly per-
! ceptible in the ranks Of crime. To
the last two questions addressed to
him, whether any person of condition
belonged to his band, and whether he
had ever accepted brides to murder,
he replied emphatically in the. neg
alive.
Cartouche's was the first of 4 long
I a zoo Of
months the Place de Greve saw some
unfortunate wretch hanged or broken.
His name and memory seemed to ell
gender robbers, and it was a long time
before the effects of that powerful i'm.
pulse which, by carefully organizing
it, he had given to crime had passed
away.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
The Liverpool Mercury, of March +,
says: ''The denouement of an extra
ordinary elopement case took place on
board the Allan steamer Morayian on
Thursday last. In the afternoon the
steamer was leaving the Mersey with a
full compliment of passengers for
Portland. just as she got under way
a river gig was seen approaching in all
haste. In the bow of the boat was seen
an aged man, who gesticulated frantic.
ally to those on board to stop. The
boat got alongside the steamer, and in
a short time two of its occupants-a
man about sixty years of age and a
young man of about NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bered on board the Moravian. The Of
ticers were naturally surprised at see
ing the steamer boarded in that fash
ion; but noticing that the old man was
in trouble, they received him court.
eously. and listened to his tale, which
was to the effect that his wife