The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-15
NUMBER AZ


writes: Ihe .nttle cOlOny VI ChSush
residents at Palermo have been sadly
startled by the intelligence that one OF
their number, a junior member of the
house of Gardner, Rose & Co., had been
kidnapped, or sequestrated," as the
Italians say, by brigands, and were
amazed when they learned the audacious
manner in which the capture was ef'
fected. Messrs. George and Forester
Rose, accompanied by two clerks, left
Palermo this morning by the early train
for Lercara, where the house possesses
sulphur mines. They reached the sta,
ton below the town in due time at lO:lO
a. m. Forester, the younger brother, VINO
resides at Lercara rs director OF the
mines, here mounted his horse, attended
by one of the clerks and the groom, his
brother preferring to ascend the steep
hill to the town in carriage. Ihere
were two other carriages with passengers
from the train, numbering in all more
than dozen. AS Forester Rose rode up
the hill he met two persons, splendidly
mounted, and dressed like Sicilian coun-
try gentlemen, who saluted him. A lit
tie further on his party was stopped by
two men standing by their horses in the
road, who inquired their names. The
clerk answered for both, assigning
feigned name to his master; but MIR:
Rose, suspecting nothing, responded
truthfully, whereupon his bride was
seized, and he was ordered TO dismount
and get on one of the horses they held.
The two horsemen he had just met now
rode up and seconded the command, in
timating that resistance would be dan
gerous. The poor young fellow. whose
ewes were now open to his situation, was
forced to obey, and the horse he had
mounted was led by one of his captors
for some distance along the road, when,
thinking he perceived chance OF escape,
he slid down over the crupper. rushed
down the hill at full speed, and though
fired at by the brigand, succeeded IN
reaching the carriages, which were
slowly winding their way up to the town.
Here he naturally thought himself &C.
cure, but he had hardly time to tell his
story when one of the gentlemanly
dressed brigands rode up 10 the car
riages, from which the astOnished pas
sengers had all descended and were
standing in the road, not knowing what
to expect. With the utmost audacity
and self.possession, this man, who IS as.
serted to be no other than the renowned
Leone himself, rode alone into the midst
of the passengers, singled out young
Rose, with cool impertinence upbralded
him with treating him very badly by
his attempt to escape, and compelled
him, at the muzzle of his double. bar
relied breech-loader, to remount the horse
from which he had just escaped, apollo
gizing at the same time, with mock
courtesy, for the Inconvenience to which
he was obliged to put him, saying
"You must not find fault with us you
must blame the government, which III
so many years has not been able to
catch us or to kill u.s." The unfortunate
young man appealed to those around him
for protection, and it would have been a
very easy thing to send bullet through
the bripand as he sat in the saddle in
their midst, but the people either were
not armed, or, what is more prob
able, on finding that one in particular
was claimed, they came to the usual 81,
cilan conclusion, that it was no affair 0l
theirs, and if the brigand wanted Rose
{ he might take him if he could. Take
, him he did, and rode off with his prey
to the spot where the clerk and groom,
we're retained by the rest of the band
Thence they proceeded at most deiib
) crate pace some miles along the hiigl
{ road toward Palermo, when, dismissins
} the two useless prisoners, they descended
/ across country into the deep valley o
E the Flume Torto. Before parting iron
, the clerk, Leone warned him that if tn
s military were sent in pursuit, it nigh
E not prove advantageous to MIR. Rose
and promised that that gentleman woui'
fare very we'll in their company if tn
ransom was paid which they intended t
, demand. 1t was fortunate for the eide
brother that he was not recognized, o
the brigands would have bagged doubl
: prey. 1t was found that they had Gu
the telegraph wires between the tow
!, and the station, in consequence OF whic
!. some valuable time was lost in apprislD
: the various military posts in that di'
| trict,