Year: 1859

with GaZauOOn WITCH quite young, and
had been with him ever since. He said
Cazaubon used to be chemist, and did
some business in that line; and it was in
Paris that he invented the Internal ma.
chine which they bad since used with
such fatal effect. About two years pre-.
vious to the present time, they left Paris
together, and spent nearly a year in
travelling over the kingdom, numbering
and robbing for living. Finally they
came to Castellane, where the master OBJ
tanned his present situation, while the
boy went into mill close at hand. Ca
zauson marked the victims that ,pore 40
be robbed, and the boy then did the work.
He used various artifces n carrying out
his plan, but the usual onewas the same
that he had tried upon me.


The boy then explained D me the Sc
cret of the pipe. Unly tR outer sur
foce was of meerschaum. Within it,
was pistol of the finest steel. and of the
most exquisite workmanship. The stem
was the barrel, and the lock vas conceal
ed within the bowl, and covered with to-
bacco. A thin plate of metalprotected
the curiOusly eontrived lock, and upon
this the tobacco rested. A prssure Of
the thumb or finger upon this plate dis.
charged the weapon. In order to cock
it, the plate had to be removed. And
now comes the Internal feature of the
contrivanee. The powder used in the
little barrel was Cazaubon's own manu-.
facture, and very powerful. For wad
a piece of felt was used, and onthe TOP
OF this was placed the missile which die
the mischief. The boy had two Of then
with him, stitched up in the lining OF hi:
cap. He took them out and showed
them to me. The projectile was a tiny
arrow, not larger than a cambric needle
with one end sharp, and the other bea
down to a thin feather. 1t was of fine
steel, but coated with greenish yellow
substance, which was the most virulen
and speedy poison that the chemists ar
could concoct. That needle once within
the course of the blood, and death wai
already at the heart. Its wound NJ
mortal eye could detect. 1t puncture,
the skin not so palpably as the prick of
pin. He who sent it on its fatal erranc
made sure of his aim, generally striking
the neck, and the victim would fall int
insensibility ere he comprehended wha
had hurt him.


returned to Castellane with the boy
and having left him in charge of tn,
Sub-Prefect, | took a gendarme alon!
with me, and went to the factory. Mon
sieur Cazaubon was surprised to see m,
back so soon /; but he was more surpris
ed when l asked him to take a wall
with me and when | called in th,
gendarme, and bade him put the hand
cuffs upon the agent, he was ready t.
sink to the floor. We had him secured
before he had sense enough to resist, anc
he was conveyed to the office of the Sub
Prefect without trouble. At first ht
denied everything; but when he founc
that this would not avail him, he swor,
he would kill the boy.


In due time, Monsieur Louis Cazau
bon was lried and condemned to death
and the Prefect of Digne took posses
sion of the internal machine. Before thr
villain was executed, he confessed hi
crimes-told how many years he ha,
worked to perfect his fatal instrument
and produce the poison-and also owne,
that the boy Henry had been driven t
him through fear of his life.


So the rascal was executed. Henr,


Dupin spent two years in confinement
and was then set free, and commenced a


honest life. As for me, / got all th
praise / deserved, and perhaps more.