Connecticut western news., 1878-03-07
VOL. VII.

heap of arms; but, during his words with Schlick, short though they had been, his companions had taken away the guns and pistols a sword only re- mained to him. During this time also, they had heard from without the pillar the clash of weapons, and suddenly through the door of bronze, which the representative of Hanover, in his pre- cipitation, had not tightly shut, they saw appear the menacing points of bayonets.
 "Fire p cried the president.
 Ten members of the cabal obeyed ]; but they only heard the strike of the flint upon the pan, and they saw but the sparks flying off from the shock.
 "We are betrayed P cried the stu dents "these muskets were discharged. To the secret doors, brothers to the secret doors r
 And they affiliated, like men who had forseen the danger, rushed towards diff ferent points of the tapestry but the tapestry was torn down in five or six places, on the moment, and through each they saw flash the steel of gun barrels and swords.
 The students stopped and looked be- wilde-ed around them; they were en- closed in circle of bayonets hundred and fifty soldiers in the Bavarian uniform enwrapped them.
 Brothers" said the president, "there remains to us but one thing-we can die !'
 Then, in lower tone, he commanded {:
 "Put fire to the powder P The order circulated in the ranks, and as if they were receding before the bayonets, the conspirators, by 8 manoeu- vre as skillfully combined as the others, withdrew from the circumference to the centre, followed and compressed by the Bavarian soldiers, who closed them in.
 On reaching the middle, the students made ready artillery fusees prepared be- forehand for this extremity then each one lit his fusee and rushed towards the cask which served him as seat.
 But they gave vent to cry of rage ; for the match enclosing and rubbed in powder, had been substituted an ordinary match that would not take fire.
 Betrayed sold [" cried from all sides the students, throwing down their useless weapons.
 "The devil p exclaimed Schlick in his companions ear; it seems to me that all goes bad-it is true," added he, speaking still lower, that we will get out of the affair by saying who we are, since the Bavarians are your Emperor's allies"
 And he went to mingle with the group of students.
 At this moment the Bavarian soldiers were so close, that they had no more than five or six paces to make for the bayonets to touch the breasts of the eighteen conspirators.
 Gentlemen," said the captain who commanded the troop, " in the name of King Maximilian of Bavaria, you are prisoners P
 "'Tis true" said the president, for we are under the reign of force; only we are prisoners, not persons who gave themselves up."
 "That matters little to me-" responded the officer II have not come to play upon words, but to do my duty by &C., complaining the orders have received. D
 Friends" cried the president, "prisoners to the King of Bavaria, in the hands of the King of Bavaria, about to die by the blows of the King of Ba- varia, what is the judgment you mete out to him p
 "The King of Bavaria, said voice, ''is traitor"
 "Who should be stricken off from the great Germanic family" said another.
 "Who ceases to be German prince, and who shall hereafter sign himself Ally of the French P
 "Whom all members of one of oul human societies have the right to strike with the dagger ]"
 Whose heart all members of human society have the right to pluck out P "Silence P said the officer, in terri. ble voice.
 "Germany forever P cried as with one voice all the students. "Silence !" said the officer; "let , every one of you form line without re sistance."
 "So be it" said the president, eff wt are to be shot. True soldiers of Ger many, to your ranks" The members obeyed, taking thei place with high head and defiant look. The Captain drew paper from his pocket and read "Captain Ernest de Muhldorf will take on hundred and fifty men and will surround tn ruins of Abensberg Castle, which serves as 7 receptacle of u band of conspirators he vii arrest all those he finds in the place called tn council hall, which formerly the hall o the secret tribunal; he will have them place in line; if there are ten, he will shoot one if twenty, he will shoot two, and so on. Tn execution over, the others may be set at liberty l Munich, the 18th April, 1909. l MAMMALIAN" I "Germany forever P was the pris , oners' sole reply. l "Eh P whispered Master Schlick t