Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-09

: ed to support this. He wished
to get rid of tie woman, and
this desperate means was the
only one that suggested itself.
Want of actual confirmatory
evidence saved Consal from the
guillotine. He was sentenced
Ito twenty years "seclusion.''
He received his doom with man
.lly submission.
"My innocence will yet be
proved" he said.
At the time of the assassina-
ton Of Laura Lafcur,there liy-
ed. in a garnet, five houses away
from fiat in which the tragedy
occurred, a painter named Mohl-
berg and his wife Mohlberg
was a clever workman, but a
: drunkard, and when in his cups
a brutal, violent man. His wife
was a handsome woman of thir-
itY, who, when he married her,
in the course of a spree, was a
I-common street walker. aefs Z
Amongthc associates of Mad
am Mohlberg's early days was
ia young pickpocket named Gre
blot. This scamp, a true type
of the Partisan swell mobsman,
handsome, impndent and cow
ardly as a rat, had been her low
er before Mohlberg's bad fort
une had made her his wife. The
connection between the pair was
only interrupted for a little by
this event. A couple of months
after the wedding Grebilot re-
sumed his old position.
He had a wholesome respect
for the reckless fan painters
wrath, however, and his visits
to his mistress were cautiously
conducted. Mohlberg was en-
| ployed in a factory on the Bou-
levards, and was usually absent
all day. At these periods Gre
blot was on hand to solace.
Nine. Mohlberg's loneliness.
The pitcher which goes too
often to the well breaks at last
though. One afternoon Mohl-
berg concluded to treat himself
to holiday, and take his wife
out for spree in the suburbs.
His unexpected return to ap-I
prise her Of his intention sur
priscd the lovers in one another's
arms.
At the sound of the injured
husbands knock, Gre blot
crawled under the bed he had
already dishonored. Crouch
ing there he heard his mistress
open the door and dress to goI
out. Fina ly, after an hour of
suspense, husband and wife
went out together, and the thief
emerged from his concealment.
The door was locked on the
outside, and he dared not at
tempt to force it, for people |
were constantly coming and go-i
ing in. the house, and, in conse-
quence of the heat, all the other
doors giving on the corridor
were wide open: AS Mohlberg
was certain not to return until
late, however, his involuntary
guest gave himself no particu-
lar uneasiness about his con-
finement. FL e calmly settled
down to wal. till night, whc.i
he proposed 10 escape by way
of the roof, whence he could
gain one of the corridors
through a window. lie foraged
on the Mohlberg cupboard for
a cold supper, and washed it
down with a liberal supply of
the fan-painter's wine. Then
he fell into doze from which
he did not awake till he heard
]
eleven o'clock striking. lie
lost no time in getting out mp
on the roof. # Is
Creeping along the gutter he
reached the window of the near
est corridor Unfortunately for
him it was barred. So also
were the next two. At the
fourth some people were loung-
ing, and he could hear their
voices through the. darkness.
To avoid them he had to scram-
BILE 10 the peak of the roof and
come down to the gutter on the
other sides A e @
This brought him alongside
OF an open window, through
which a dim light glowed. Het
looked III. i88sffltR 4
A woman, dressed only in her
chemise,. was stretched on the
outside of a bed fast asleep. A
bottle and a glass half filed
with absinthc stood on stool
within her reach. From the
furniture of the place Grebilot
could sec the room was the stu
dio OF some Bohemian artist.
But Iic saw more. On a table /
were some objects which at i
once excited all The thiefs in
slinct in him. One was a box
Of dark woed, apparently a cask-
ct for yaluables. The others
were some articles Of jcweiry, a !
watch and n nunhrr of coins /