The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-11
GHE THREE HuNCHBAoKs.
Remarkable Story of Three Brothers
Who Looked Exactly Alike.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
Three brothers, all humpbacked and all
alike in appearance, lived in Besancon. One
Of them killed man, but not being taken
on the moment the prosecutors could Only
swear that one of the three brothers had
done the deed.
Rather than put an innocent man to
death the judge let the guilty one escape,
but to avoid further inconvenience of the
kind he Danished all from the province.
One man settled in Paris, became rich,
and married; the others, after nearly starv-
ing in England. returned and paid visit 10
their more fortunate brother
The master Of the house was abroad when
they knocked, and the poor wife was troub>
led more than little by the visit
My husband is very jealous" said she to
them, while she was giving them some>
thing TO eat. You must go to the further
quarter Of the town, and never come here
again: but I'll make your brother look to
your wants"
While she was speaking she heard her
husbands knock, aud cried out:
Follow me if you value your lives"
She ordered tbs servant not 60 open the
door till she should return, and then con-
veyed the brothers down the stairs and
locked them in the cellar.
Her husband scolded her for being kept
out 50 long, but good dinner restored him
to good humor, and at night he went out
to pay a visit.
The wife then went down to the collar
and there found the two brothers dead.
What was to be done! She sent for
strong Auvergnat, brought him down
stairs, showed him one corpse, which she
had previously taken out OF the cellar, and
promised him louis dor on his return after
having thrown it into the river Seine.
He made no scruple about the matter, but
popped the body into the sack, took it to the
bridge and shook it into the river
Returning Tor his reward. the wife dis
puted his claim, as the body was still lying
outside the cellar door.
Here the stupefed man saw what he
| firmly believed to be the corpse be had
thrown from the bridge, and resigning him
self to destiny, he got it into his sack aud
went through the ceremony for the second
| time.
Coming back he was terrified and enraged
| by finding the twice-drowned corpse knock
ing at the door,
Are these your tricks, masterP' said he.
| "Ah, NJ. Ghost, clever as you are, I'll
settle you tie third trial"
| So saying, be forced the poor husband in
to the sack, carried him to the same spot,
and effected him the same discharge.
This time he returned in triumph, for the
| HlA0s AEuOIduE Vi uuSDhuQs ldLe, anu
having no more corpses to remove, paid
him twice what she had covenanred and
| gave him a glass of wine into the bargain.
Your good health, madam" said he;
"you are better than your promises, but |
earned it. / found the humpbacked rogue,
or his ghost, knocking at the door after
| had thrown him in a second time
20, wretch you have drowned my hus-
band" cried the woman.
| While she was screaming and he was
standing in amusement the gendarmes en-
tered. secured them both aud sent them to
| prison.
Next day they were brought before the
magistrate of the quarter and examined.
Tho poor wife concealed nothing; the
Auvergnat was called upon for an exDlana-
ton, and while both were waiting sentence
the three brothers. full of life but with very
pale faces, were usherej into the room.
Some fishermen stationed near the bridge
| had saved them all.
The unmarried men had only been dead
drunk in the cellar, and the submersion and
consequent pulling and hauling, and eject
ment of wine and water, had recovered
them from their drunken lethargy before
the natural time.
On their first appearance before the mag
istrate they could give no explanation of
their visit to the river, and the husband had
| no idea of the cause of his being seized, but
his wife's explanation made all clear.