The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-10-21

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rang, Jean raised himself Like one awak-
ened from q dream he gazed at the clock |
with arms outstretched and his mouth |
open, expressing an awful fear.
"OhT said he trying to cover his face
with his hands.
The clock had resumed its menotonous
tic-tac and the hands moved mechani.
cally around its face
When the music ceased Jean stood |
erect, and said with steady voice, look
ing at the Judges: "Why have you ar
rested met am innocent. I will swear
it. Ny master killed himself. am say
ing nothing but the truth; I have come
to myself!
s'The night of the murder was fear
full one, as you All know said the man,
'sa storm mixed with rain, hail and thua-
der, SO that nothing which traespired at
my masters could be heard in the neigh
borhood. Samuel Stauffer entered the
house at nine o'clock in the evening car,
rving this clock under his arm, and it
was who hung it solidlY to the wall of
his own room opposite his bed. He
seemed enchanted with his bargain and
talked Of it necessarily. At ten o'clock
I assisted him to regulate the cuckoo and
to put it in melton. At half past ten it
struck for the first time and played the
air which you have just heard. I was
helping Samuel Stauffer to disrobe. He
turned to me abruptly as if something
had struck him.
"eDo you not think that, music very
strange9' said he. 7sssn@
II told him that it had shaken my
nerves little, at which he laughed hear
tly.
"sWell, weny' he exclaimed, go to.
bed; that will calm you.'
II lett HIM then alone and assembled
into my room just above his, where,
owing to the age of the house, a piece of
| displaced plastering enabled me to see
all that passed in my masters room. I
was preparing for bed when eleves
| O'Clock struck and the music began
again. I heard my master turn in his
bed, and it disturbed me so that cast a
glance into his room. He was standing
in front of the clock, a candle in his
hand, gazing at 1t with an anxious air,
as if the sound irritated him. I went to
bed and in ten minutes slept profound
".
''The time new by, and three o'clock
had just struck when heard an explo-
sion of furious cries beneath me. Then
it was that witnessed a horrible spec
taele- Samuel Stauffer, foaming at the
mouth, his eyes starting from their sock
cts, shook his. fist at the clock crying:
You will cause my death, but you will
not ring any more!'
"In an instant he leaped upon chair
and passing one of the chains around his
neck, pushed the seat from under him
and remained hanging. The clock
stopped instantly at three O'Clock.
"Pale with horror looked at him, I'M
able to help him. had frightful de.
sire to initiate his example-had gone
below it would have been certain death
I do not remember anything more until
to-day.
4 "That is the whole truth, gentlemen
and you must have felt the strange i'm.
preston produced by the song of this
cuckoo
I As he flushed, the haf hour struck
and held anew everyone in tinexplicable
power. The members Of the jury could
thus judge by their own sensations thu
truth Of the recital made by the accused
Z The jury retired to deliberate, Wher
they entered, the verdict was simply thu
. lacquittal of Jean Muller. The verdic
. was received with applause. 49,.
Il The Jew, Welfmann, was brought be
|, tore the bar.
You will be conducted to the gates o
the city, and forbidden to ever step foo
inside again. The price of the hous'
bought by you will be refunded, ant
! this internal clock shall be publicl.
, burned" e.,1
II The hour was about to strike but tn
movement was arrested.
i Conducted outside the walls, the Jew
t Wolfman never reappeared, and tn
cuckoo was burned on the place befor
: the prison. h +, IS s.a
, The grocer Bloch was certain that Sa
! tan constructed the clock and his neigh
Dor Herman, more credulous now, dare
not contradict him. -.. r. :.
Il The little house of Samuel Stauffe
8 was given to Jean Muller, who let it fal
9 IN ruins. He replaced it by new hulld
|. ing soon, for everybody tried to assls
: him, and they go to his shop to listen I
e the history of the death of the Jew an
the terrible song OF the cuckoo.
e Juggernaut Car.
/ Juggernaut, a term meaning 1.-THE Lor