The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-06-07

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10 tie front, where his horse stood.
There wae peculiar flash Of the black
eyes . be placed his hand beneath the
luxurianf mane. and holding it rhctioniess
i moment
They rob Nuddee, but don't robhoss
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| the &6yhkl xs3t3ke si|slEibie from:
The outside, and handing it to one Of his
employers, said
IS There diamondr'
Such was the fact. The .sagacious fell
l low, fBfeseeing what - likely to happen,
had provided himsG1f viii ~ paste Jewel
Il Alehahsd ~ " NJ znssess saved
we sa11. = Z. :.
| Tho Uenetse 1880
/ happsned to ~ % ! stsep. sn1
narrow street. ard sshaf loof4
like tpai6ee ~ - Nod, I climbed up
and found myself a 4 littl6 square, On
which froueed he ni11oive and mOidefs
| ing walls Of ~ P6ts afgsk a polite
| question At the door gained md speedy ad-
mission, md was' shown with great
courtesy through the suite. Of apartments
of this once famous pslace, the scene Of 20
many terrible crimes and frasadies, the
home Of the lovely aud moett fortunate
Beatrice. Itis-qpw occupied by = He
brew family Of the wealtlhier class, all Of
whom seemed to take much pride and
pleasure in showing their dwelling to the
stranger, and they assQBd fme that such
visitors are very fnfrequent. The rooms
are lofty and weli-proportioned, the cell
ings beautifully panelled, each panel sur
rounded with heavy arabasques Of tarn-
ished but elaborate carving and gliding,
and each filled with beautifully executed
paintings, of which the colors were still
bright and clear.
/ We were shown poor Beatrice's cham
Der. The paintings on its panels are OF
horses and landscapes: and we sadly
1 bxlOukut vi TIC UCHulklu1- SOul+WtuuluR
eyes that must 80 often have gazed upon
them. Poor unfortu1ate. lovely Beatricei
| Most wrongfully acctised Of participating
| in the murder of her father, who was
really procured to be assassinated by her
mother land if ever an abominable old
wretch deserved summary killing at the
hands of his kinsfolk, it was this same
tyrannical and brutal francesca Cenci),
| she was immured in the horrible dungeon
still shown in the castle of San Angelo.
and taken ont thence, from time 70 lime,
| to be tortured with all the exquisite re-
| finements of cruelty which the devilish
\ ingenuity of man could invent, SO as to
compel her to confess that of which she
| was innocent But although the lovely
sndtender body of this young and deli
cately -nurtured girl was almost torn asun-
Ger by these fiendish torments, her con-
scious innocence still remained mistaken.
There must be an exaltation of soul which
accompanies the consciousness of inno-
| cence and deadens the nerves, rendering
the body comparatively inseasible to pain.
| Else the weak, human nature of the
martyrs never could have endured the pro-
longed agonies to which they were SUBJ
jected. Tortured with the cruel rack and
cord, Beatrice's constancy remained un-
| shaken.
| Stripped and bound. into q .chair with
| its narrow seat cut into fhe form of pointed
diamonds; her hands bound behind and
| fastened with cord to the ceiling (thev
| will show you the rings in San Angeles
torture chamber today; her body loosely
fastened to the back of the chair, cut also
into angular points, she was constantly
pushed from side to side and jGked by
| the arm up and down from the ceiling to
the spiked chair below, for forty consecu-
rive hours, fresh relays of tormentors re-
lieving each other every fifth hour. And
| still the weak. fragile girl was proof. Yet
these men doubtless thought that they were
doing their duty, according. to the light
that was in them, and to the custom of
their hard, cruel time, in trying to force
what they supposed was the, truth from a
suspected parricide. 3d.. doubtless,
thought the patient. hard working. self
denying Philip H.. of Spain, when he Or
| dered the tenS. Of thousands of the Meth
srlanders to torture and to death, that he
| was working out a great and good work
| through much tribulation. For our fell
l low-men when. sane, are not such wanton,
4 hideous demons as the historians some
times try to make us believe. Nero was,
doubtless. madmany and Philip q. ia
matte. When God has made US perfect,
then we can afford to pass judgment with
nOn-sparing severity upon the crimes of
others. Meanwhile let US judge not, lest
we be judged
| Furious with their failure, they next
found her long and beautiful hair to a
running moose attached to'the rings in the
| ceiling above which was constantly jierked