River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-03

/ Pavicini, during the following days, de-
voted his attention to hiring lot Of pref
| ty servant-girls, with rosy cheeks and flax
| en- hair. He told them that they should
| 20 as servants to Naples, where they were
to receive very large wages lie paid
each of them twenty five ducats and sent
them off to Matseilles, where deliopolos
received them, and Immediately put them
on board of the Turkish vessel.
Pavicini now went to Berlin. Fred
erick William, the great elector of Bran
dcnburg, was at the time in feeble health,
/ and but few people were admitted to his
presence. Still Pavicini, after q number
of efforts, obtained an interview with him,
He offered the Elector some very fine
diamonds
Il shall not buy any" replied Frederick
William; II might have done so in form
er years But | know | shall not live
long
30, Your Highnessw
~ know it, sir"
"Your Highness does not look by any
means enfeebled.'
"You are very kind; but l ain suffering
terribly from sleeplessness."
''llet me suggest to Your Highness a
very simple remedy for that ailmentn
Il am afraid" said the Elector, shat
my case is hopeless"
Pavicini then cautiously revealed the
Sultan scheme to Frederick William of
Brdndenburg.
The latter listened attentively to him.
Suddenly he knit his brows and exclaim-
ed in a stentorian voice:
ado you mean what you say, sir2'
Pavicini replied in the affirmative.
''And you, william, think that Frederick
William of Brandenburg, distasteful as
the Austrian cause is to him, would lend
himself to- ich infamous treachery Z
What authorizes you, sir, to believe that
] am capable Of such disgreceful pro
ceedingsl'
Pavicini had turned very pale.
"Your Highness!" he stammered.
"Do you know what am going TO do
with you?'
Paviclni asked forbearance.
mo forbearatce for your Numbered
the Elector
"Mercy, them"
mo mercy-ne mercy! / shall have
you put into an iron cage, and send you
in it to the Emperor Leopold, with a
full account of what you have told me-"
Pavicini uttered cry of despair.
The Elector clapped his hands. An
officer entered the room.
Have this man heavily ironed,' he
said to HIN, land send the good Master
Steurer here
The good Master Steurer was no other
than the public exccutioner of Berlin.
The officer collared the hapless victim,
and dragged him from the room. The
executioner made his appearance soon af-
terward.
The EIector gave him full instructions,
and the next morning the people of Ber
lin were startled by the appearance in the
streets of common farm wagon, upon
which stood an iron cage, in which the
unfortunate Pavicini was lying, heavily
irOned
In this condition he was conveyed to
Vienna. The dismal journey lasted two
weeks
In the mean time the man who had
overheard the conversation between He'll
opolos and Pavicini at Marseilles had
reached Vienna, and for heavy sum of
money had revealed the important secret
to the Emperor Leopold.
When Payicini reached Vienna the
popuIace received him with execrations
and other manifestations Of the most in
tense hatred. They stoned his cage, and
threatened to murder him.
1t vas with the utmost difficulty that
his keepers succeeded in conveying him
to his dungeon.
Payicini's fate was truly terrible one.
lie was tortured again and again, and
again, and finally broken on the wheel.
When Heliopolos heard of Pavicini's
death he Immediately set sail for Con
stantinople.
Kara Mustapha there was so much en-
ragged that he caused the unfortunate
Bavariam girls to be summarily drowned.
The Elector of Bavaria denied to the
Emperor Leopold all knowledge Of the
matter.
Kara 1Iustapha attacked Vienna next
year, but his army was utterly routed,
and the Sultan, in consequence, caused
him to be strangled to death.