The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-05-09

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Minister, saying:
II shall circulate the news that Robldocqua
committed suicide"
Have him buried forthwith as a suicide" 70.
piled the Minister.
The remains OF the unfortunate French adyen-
turer, after the barbarOus fashion In which the
corpses Of suicides were buried al that time were
| thrown on cart and driven TO the poor mans
cemetery, where an assistant Of
THE PUBLIC ExEcUTIoNER
offered to sell them for dissection TO any phyM.
ctan or medical student that would pay hfty nOr-
tns for them.
bidder was there, and half an hour later the
remains Of poor Monsieur de Robldocque had
already been dissected
Diening, the young detective, was not preBentat
the revolving funeral. He was trying to devise
some way to ferret out all about Count Arnold
Telecky's conspiracy. Suddenly he exclaimed:
what II should arrest Telecky after ALI"
Half an hour later Count Arnold Telecky was
ushered by three police officers into the presence
OF Diening at the old Stockhaus, the dismal prison
which derived ig name from the merclleGs man
ner in which the prisoners were beaten with
sticks there.
| The Count, a handsome cavalier, not yet thirty
| years old, looked to all appearances, upon his
arrest as good joke.
"Count Teiecky," said Diening to him graVely,
you are charged with consprlng against His
Majesty, the Emperor"
Charged by WhomP sneered the Count ~
suppose by that contemplate spy of yours, Mon
sieur de Robidocque, whom we told a cock and
bull story. By the way, the police assert that
RobidoCque committed suicide He was mur-
dered,"
Murdered by Whom|
"I don't know. Now, good.by, Mr.. DIening
have an engagement elsewhere"
"You are under arrest"
mo one can arrest me In this country" =" said the
Count, Contemptuously. Look at this ring Do
you know who gave 1t to meF
Diening looked at
THE SMALL DIAMOND RING.
Which the Count showed to him and bit his lips.
"Itls from His Majesty the Emperor" said Diem
ing. ut secures you from arrest You are free to
I go. But"
"But" cried the Count, with flashing eyes,
"But take care--take Care'
"Insolent cur p' exclaimed the Count and be.
fore the three policemen were able to prevent 1t,
he spat In Diening's face, and struck him on the
cheek with the leathern Ecabbard Of his small
and elegant sword
Diening's face assumed a truly demoniacal ex-
preston. He raised his eenched fist against the
Count But the latter left the room laughing.
After long interview with Baron Muffling, the
Minister Of Police, DieRlng returned to his home,
where he put on false whiskers and dressed him.
self in the ragged garments Of Hungarian beg.
gar.
Waiting until the setting Of dusk; he sauntered
out into the street by side door.
No one would have been able to recognize in
him the dreaded detective.
He directed hissteps leisurely toward the sump-
tuous Telecky palaces and, upon reaching 1t, said
to the fOotman at the door:
II must see the Countess, your mistress, pri.
vately."
The fOotman burst into scornful laughter
"Impudent beggar," he replied, "are you drunk
on Hungarian wine7 If you were sober you
would not dare to ask for private interview with
the Countess Begonel else shall forthwith be-
labor your dirty back with my cane"
"Will your" whispered the disguised detective.
Then he seized the footmans arm as In an iron
wise, and hurled him to one side.
Before the menial had recovered from his sur
prise, Dienng was hurrying up the broad stair
case Of the palace, and few minutes later he
stood before the Countess TeleCky.
1t would have been difficult to imagine more
more faultlessly beautiful woman than the Coun.
tess.
She was the daughter Of Prince Nadaska, the
| richest landed proprietor in Croatia. dark bru-
nette, with glowing red cheeks, cast Of features
which Phidias would have longed to immortalize,
the supple, elegant form Of daughter of the ORR
ent the smallest hands and feet, and pearly teeth
contrasting beautifully with her vOluptuous lips.
DieniDg told her that her husband, who was in
serious trouble, desired to see her Immediately at
the portal Of St Stephen Cathedral
HE left me an hour ago." she said, anxiously,
| What kind of trouble is he in?'
political trouble"
ooh, 1t must be
THAT ACCURsED SECRET socIETYW
shecrled
The detective tried to find out more from her
| on the subject, but he was not long in discover.
| ing that she knew very little. She accompanied
him unhesitatingly.
Instead Of taking her to the Cathedral, however;
Diening placed her in sedan. chair and had her
brought to the stockhaus, where Baron Muflng
| was already awaiting her.
The beautiful Countess was extremely bewil-
dered and distressed
"Where is my husband" she asked.
"Fhis is what we want to find out from YOU"
said the Minister. "You had better answer our
| questions"
She solemnly declared that she did not know
any particulars about the Secret Society, whose
head her husband was said to be-
| Then the poor lady was barbarousy tortured.
But nothing was ELECTED from her. She begged
piteousy for mercy, but the Minister of Police
turned deaf ear to her supplicauons
Finally the Minister whispered something into
the exeGutioners ear. The latter was startled,
and 1t was not without reluctance that he seized
knife and cut off the left ear of the Countess.
She tainted away under the atrocious pain
| When she reaWOke to consciousness she found
herself lying on a pallet In q dark dungeon.
Her husband was almost beyond himself with
rage and grief, upon his return home when he
did not find her there.
He was driven almost crazy upon receiving an
anonymous letter containing the small white ear
| of a woman, and framed in the following terms
count TELECKY: This ear Is that of your wife,
Her right ear will be sent to you tomorrow unless
you confess every thing to His Majesty the En-
| peror"
Itwould be impossible to describe the sufferings
which Count Telecky underwent during the next
few hours.
At last his love for his wife overcame his seru.
pies. He confessed all about the Secret Society to
! the Emperor Leopold l., who, however, refused
to pardon him. ofTeleckys fellow-conspirators,
thirty.seven were beheaded with him on the fol.
lowing day,
The young Countess died shortly afterward in
alunatic asylum.
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