Puget Sound weekly Argus. [volume], May 20, 1880, Image 3

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A Bold Swindlmg Operation.
Asingulnr story of wholesale swin
dling and inconceivable credualty comes
from Rome. About a year ago a young
nnd'he'uxtiful woman, believed to [no on
American, and credited with the lIOn‘SCS
sion of an enormous fortune, arrival at
the Italian capital, accompanied by u
young man helonging to one of the old
est and most distinguished Roman faun
ilics and ‘ny a donkey. Shortly after
her arrival she was married to the
young aristocrat, whose name the Ital~
ian papers conceal under the title of
Signor X. The couple went upon a
wedding tour, and spent money with;
lavish hands. They selected the city of ‘
Portidi for their home, saying that they l
wished to live in retirement while await
ing the completion of Madame's twenty
fifth year, when she would come into
full possession of her fortune, and would
receive six millions of dollars. Every
one was ready to give credit to such
a great heiress. A Roman gentleman,
in whose villa the couple lodged, loaned 1
them 50,000 francs, and guaranteedl
payment for 150,000 francs' worth of ‘
jewelry which they had bought in Nam
plea. They made debts among the;
eapolitan merchants and bankers?
to the amount of $700,000 francs. In ‘
Rome they victimized the shopkeepersl
heavily for diamonds, corals, costly furs l
and other portable articles of high price. ,
Nothing seemed too costly, provid~
ed they could get credit for it.
They even had the handles of parasols.
and umbrellas set with precious stones.
Thev contracted to buy the Villa
Mimfiori for 700,000 francs, bought
seven carriages and forty horses, and or
dered a private railwayyar and a yacht. ‘
Within a year they managed to make
debts to the extent of over half 8. mil
lion 0! dollars. The date fixed far pay
ment was in all cases the first of March.
In February the couple went to Paris
and then to London, a movement which
seemed to excite no suspicion among
their creditors; but on the first of
March news came from Rome that they
had gone to America, taking with them
an immense quantity of baggage. A
few days later a banker in Rome re
ceived a letter from the husband, saying
that the will making his wife a rich
heiress had been set aside, and that
they had gone to America, hoping with
perseverance and indefatigable etl'ort to
regain the position they had occupied in
the world-~19. Y. Tribune.
Eugenlo'a Crown.
The ex-Empress Eugenie, before
starting to Zululand presented her isn
perial crown to the Church of Notm
Dame dos Victoires, Paris. It is of
great value on account of its artistic
composition and the number of precious
stones it containa After the Empress‘
flight from France the new government
ordered that all the valuables of the Im
perial family, including the crown, the
regalia, and the sword of state, should
be deposited with the Bank of France.
But a rumor soon got abroad that the
Empress’ crown, together with the cele
brated Regent diamond, had been se
cretly fer-worded to London to' the care
of the Rothschilds. A little later the
gossips ailirmcd that it had been sold by
Dr. Evans, the American dentist, and
that the proceeds had been applied to
the support of the Empress at Chisel
hurst. 'l' he true account of her flight
and of the valuables she took with her,
has recently been published. It ap
pears that when Prince Mottornieh ap
peared at the 'l‘uileries and bade the
Empress hasten her departure sho Went
hurriedly into her bedroom, put on a
brown waterproof cloak, a round trav
eling hat, took a green parasol, began
to collect together in great haste all the
miniatures of the Emperor, of her son,
of her sister, the Duchess d’Albe, and of
her niece, and put them into a lapislszuli
box, which, however, in the bust” of her
flight she was destined to leave behind.
“Make haste, Madame, I hear cries;
they are mounting the stairs; they are
comingl" cried M. Nirru. Prince Met
ternich went boldly into the bedroom
and toolr- the Empress by the arm
Every one had, more or less, lost their.
presence of mind. The Empress left
without taking any money with her, al
though tlmre Were about 40,000 francs
in the‘ drawers, and Marshal Vaillant,
who had had a thought of this, and
bringing some rouleaux of gold with.
him, had with the greatest difliculty suc- :
ceeded in entering the Palace by the}
gate in the Rue de Rivoli, arrived too
late to give them to the Empress. She
was driven to the hotel of Dr. Evans,
who supplied her with money. She was
then put into the bands of Sir John
Burgoyne, who conveyed her across the
Channel; and when she set foot on
British shores she was almost penniless.
In the subsequent arrangement of her
affairs, after the Cbmmune, many of her
valuables, and among them the crown,
were restored to hen—New York
Herald.
Resuscitation.
People at Pcsth are reported to be in
a state of am moment at the recovery of
a. criminal who had been hanged. It is
an unusual event, yet not by any means
unprcedented. While the famous Sir
William I‘ctly, on of those rare rolling
stones who gathered moss everywhere,
was giving anatomical lectures at Ux
ford, he acquired great celebrity by
bringing to life a girl who had been
hanged for a crime of which it was
eventually proved that she was inno
cent. This feat probably largely as
sisted in gaining for him, the following
year, the appointment of Professor of
Anatomy at the college founded by
Thomas Gresham in London. The year
1736 was especially notable for this sort
of cases in England. In Hertfordshiro
riots had arisen in connection with turn
pike tolls, and several persons were sen
tenced to be executed. Among them
was one Reynolds. He was out down,
after hanging, by the executioner, and
placed in a coffin; but as it was beingl
thrust down, put his head up and on-:
deavored to force up the lid. The exeg
cutionsr, probably intent on concealing
his own bad execution, Would have
thrust him in and forced down
the lid, but the mob saw what he was
about and prevented it, nearly killing
the executioner. Reynolds was taken
to his house, where he threw up a great
deal of blood. A glass of wine was
given to him, and it was at first thought
he would recover, but he died within a
few hours. The sheritf, believing the
man dead, had left immediately after
the hanging. In the following Septem
ber, Joshua Harding and John Vern
?ham were condemned for hours break-
Ting,'and hanged at BristoL When cut
down, both revived. but the latter died
the same night. Harding was placed in
the city prison. He said he remember
ed being at the gallows, but had no re
collectionof Vernham's being with him.
He was pardoned, and placed in a chari
table institution, chiefly, it appears, out
of consideration of a weak intellect.
The most elaborate preparations were
i made for saving the Rev. Dr. Dodd, ex
ecuted for forging the name of the Earl
of Chesterfield~(not the Lord Chester
field, be it observed, who wrote the fa
mous letters.) Itisrvcorded on excel
lent authority thst the doctor's life was
not extinct when he was removed from
tho gallows, and that he might have
been saved had the room to ahich he
had been taken been nearer to the place
of execution. We believe that arrange»
ments made many years ago, With simi
lar intent, failed through a blunder as to
time, which caused the medical men to
arrive too late. It is a strong point,
among many in favor of the guillotine,
that it makes no failures, but isan abso
lutely certain and rapid agent of death.
-—-—N. Y. Times.
Tornadoes and Emigration
I The destruction of more than a hun
,dred lives and of about $1,000,0C0 of
‘property at Marshfisld, recently, by a
tornado which swept through the central
part of Missouri, is not a cheerful event
for the contemplation of people who are
thinking of n home in the West. The
frequent cyclones and tornadoes which
terrify the inhabitants of several States,
are undoubtedly a serious oljection in
the estimation of many, to choosing a
residence within their limits. Even if
the probability of wreck by tornado is
remote, there are cbmparatively few
neighborhoods in certain parts of the
West, which wholly escape iuiury each
year from the prevalence of violent
wind storms. The immigrants from‘
Germany, Ireland, Norway and Sweden ‘
may not be frightened from the West}
by the stories of its terrific storms, but ‘
many inhabitants of Eastern States un
questionahly consider the terror of the
‘ tornado one serious objection to migra- ‘
tion- westward. Women especially,
dread removal to a region where such
lvisitations as that which afllicted
Missouri Sunday evening use. possible
occurence. However, the ills which
mortals sufl'er are for the most part
'thosc of imagination, and were accurate
l statistics to show the exact proportion of
{residents of the West who have sutl'erod
injury to person or property from the
fury of the elements, the apprehensions
of the timid would be rapidly dimin
ished. It is said that it would be ab
solutely safer to travel by rail than to
wall: the streets of Boston, and as the
security of life in that staid city is
notable, the horror of an occasional
railwu y disaster need begct no reluctance
of the traveler to embark on the rail
way train. A similar array of statis
tics as to the probability of injury by
wind storms would unquestionably re
move much of the alarm which makes
many ru-gard the West as an uncle-sir
ahle place of I't’SltltfllCl'. Like a fatal
stroke of lightning, the tornado in fear
iul when it doe+ break furth, but not.
oucdo-a'll in a nnllion, and perhaps in
many millions, is canned either by light
ning or tornado.
Summer Visiting.
”Suppose I went with you to this la
dy’s house"——Ford touched with the
atom of his pipe 0. letter which lay open
on the table pulled it near him—“and
visited among your friends, the nobility
and gentry, 1' should be reminded by a
thousand things every day that I was a
sham and a pretender. That kind of
people always take it 'for gmnted that
you feel and think With them, and I
don’t. You can’t help telling them so,
however. And suppose I trictb to con
form, I should bo an amateur anion g pro
fessionals. They have the habit of
breeding and elegance, as they under
stand it. I may have a loftier ideal,
but I haven't discipline; I can’t realize
my ideal, and they do realize theirs—
poor souls! That makes me the inferior;
that makes me hate them.” Ford took
up his pipe.
“oh," said Phillips, “you can put an
ironical face on, but I suspect what you
say is really your mind."
“Of course it is. At heart I ama
prince in disguise; but your friends
won't know it if I sit with my coat, oif.
That would vex me." He took up the
letter from the table, and holding it at
arm’s length, admired it. “Such a.
hand alone is enough,‘the smallest let
ters half an inch high, and all of them
shrugging their shoulders. I can’t come
up to that. If I went to this lady’s
house, to be like her other friends
and acquaintances I should have
to he just arrived from Europe,
or just going; my talk should
be of London and Paris and
Rome, of the Saturday Review and the
Revue des Deux Mondss, of English
‘politics and society; my own country
should exist for me on suti'erance through
.a compassionate curiosity, half repul
lsion; I ought to have recently dined at ‘
Newport with poor Lord and Lady
Scamperton, who are finding the climate
so terrible; and I should be expected to
speak of persons of the highest social
distinction by their first names, or the
first syllable of their first names. You
see, that’s quite beyond me. ‘An do
bring your friend, Mr. Ford,’ ” he read
from the latter mincingly, and laughed.
“I leave it to your fertile invention to
excuse me. Philips." . _
He kindled his pipe, and Phillips
presently went wentaway. It was part
of ' his routine not to fix himself in any
Summer resort, but to keep accessible to
the invitations whbh did not fail him.
He found his account in this socially,
and it did not remain unsaid that he also
gratified a passion for economy in it;
but the people who said this continued
among his hosts. Late in the Summer,
or almost when the leaves began to turn,
he went away to the hills for a. fortnight
or three weeks, providing himself with
quarters in some small hotel, and making
a point of returning to the simplicity of
nature. In the performance of his rite
he wore a stray. hat with a wide brim
and a flannel shirt, and he took walks
in the woods with the youngest young
ladies among the boarders.
A Convicted Murderers ElO.
queues.
A colored man pleaded his own case
with marked sucms in Dallas, Tens, a
week ago. He was accused of s crime
as grave as murder, and had been con
victed. The judge denied the motion
for a new trial, and asked the custom
ary question : “ Have you anything to
say why sentence should not be pro
nounced l" The prisoner responded that
he knew nothing he could say would in‘
fluencs the court, as all the forms of lsw
had been complied with, but he
would like to say s. few words to his
colored friends. He started oti‘ slowly
and deliberately, reviewing the testi- ‘
mony, showing the inconsistencies of ‘
witnesses’ statements, and then, carried i
away with the idea of the wrong none ‘
him, he burst forth in a strain of elo~ i
quence seldom heard. When he sat ‘
down the judge said : “Sam, I thought j
you guilty ; I don’t believe you so now, ‘
and will set aside the judgment overrul
ing your motion for snow trial and give
you a another chance." The county at.
torney dismissed the case and the pris
oner walked out of the court room s
free man. He was a “ common tield
hand," the local paper says, “ and uned
ucated.”——New York Tribune.
Somebady writes to the Womm’s
J ournnl protesting against hats that are
turned up so as to look jaunty, and says
that he went to a. funeral the other day
and found his attention distracted from
the mvicen by the juunty millinery
worn by the ladies present. There is no
occasion too so'emn to divert a man's
mind from staring at bonnctn, is there?
—Boston Trumcri pt.
There will be grmeruJ and profound
sympathy with the [mar Gmml V.zi~.r
at. Constantiuuplln ’l'nny hum: to cut.
his pay down from 3115,0001"? month
to SI,OOO Thu-n: h!“ how un. puhlicAau
nouncement that his wiws will take in
wmhing.
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