Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-23

led to his application to the I'M
perial police, and the consequent
trial to which we have alluded.
The tavern of the "Golden One
lette" is situated close. under the
fortifcation walls Of the city Of
Radna. Its proprietor, Tr, uilleson,
is man of gigantic stature, an old
soldier of the Austrian army, who |
was blinded by the explosion of a
cannon while firing a salute from
the forts at Trieste.
Returning to his native city with |
his mistress, a fine looking Russian
woman of the Volga, he started the
house of call for beggars, which he,
up to a few weeks ago, directed and
made money out OF. The house is
"a long. low, rambling structure-a
nondescript of bricks, stone and
woodland when descended on by
the police served as shelter for nearly
two hundred men, women and chill
, dren, all of whom, with the excep-
ton Of perhaps dozen, We're pro-
fessional beggarS. Upon the arrest
, Of its host, he was discovered to be
worth, in money deposited in the
Imperial bank, over $100,000-an
enormous fortune for the country
in which he lived. How this money
: was obtained is the crowning horror
of the entire affair.
Antoine Oherguillo, nicknamed
"The Player" is the brother of
I Trouilleson's mistress. Among
/ the frequenters of the Golden
. 0melette" he is called the "0pera-
s teur." He is a man of over fifty,
and for the last thirty years of his
0 life has been engaged in the bust
i. ness Of manufacturing cripples,
J, From the evidence given at the
! trial, which is likely to send him
O to the guillotine, his method Of
: procedure is as follows:
!. The members Of a gang of kid
il nappers, organized by his sister
is aud her Sightless paramour, have
v for the last twenty years been en-
gagged in stealing children from the
" various cities of the empire. Thest
n unfortunate little ones were hreugh
le to the headquarters at Radna
le where they passed into the merci
r less hands Of the "operateur."
id He took charge Of them in
10 separate section Of the inn, where
assisted by a couple of surgeons
or whose vices had reduced them
at his own level, and by his owl
an knowledge of anatomy-for he ha
a. studied the art itself in his youth
no he evolved the terribly-cripple
ne specters who have so long pestere,
Y. the pilgrims Of st. Nepomuck. A
as the time Of his arrest three Chi
rk dren, in various stages Of GONZALES
ed cenoe from mutilations, were foun,
If on the filthy cots of this demonia
ID. hospital. One of them, a pre-
de ty girl of five, had he
Of right hand amputated. The othe
at two, both boys, had lost their hand
ial and feet respectively. In a p
under the floor, in one corner {
ed the torture-ohamber, were foun
the putrefying remnants Of a doze
he human members, buried in q con
ed post of chloride of lime and quick
Iro lime. Oherguille manifested n
emotion upon his arrest, but utterl
q refused to render any information
he and has been obstinately silen
-as since.
he At the time the arrest was mad
he the business Of the infamous de
II. was in full blast. In the long CON
TO mon room a hundred miserabl
av wrecks of humanity, armleSs, les
less, handles, footlesG, blind, an
,al awfully disfgured, congregate
N. about long tables. The smoke {
ral their pipes yeiled the scene, tt
he reek Of their foul meat tainted til
he air, and the Gathering Of thei
cir crutches, the curses, shrieks, an
Ms loud conversation all about dea
Of ened the ordinary ear. Upon II
vn entrance of the detectives the
re. merely looked Ep, and noting tt
nd artfully disguised figures, took thel
ID. for stranger beggars, and continue
ali their ofg;e without honoring thel
X. with any further attention. II
an house had been surrounded with
IS. double Gordon of police, and at a
cir appointed signal the descent WI
he made. The result was that all th
di. freQuenterS of the place were 0eize,
m. with one exception. This, singl
lrp larly enough, was p man Yithol
te. legs, who managed to conceal hin
ovs self in the cellar, and eventual
ait made his escape.
at The prisoners were at once loadt
en-, into a special train and conveys
ost to Vienna. There the promise
,ok pardon induced a number Of the
lrly to series of confessions. The a
ltil of crippling children was, it seem
ing aot tbp only one practiced by Il
or "operateuEp More than one po
ted innocent had been wilfully blind
heiby the atrocious torturer, and
Shel tie trial three such victims Of ]
lin infamous business we're produce