Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1881, Page 2

2 TdE DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1881. POBTRY OF THE TIMES, | Lent. The season called Lent is not remote, Already the ccck crows with cheer, And says, chanticleer out my throat Andsing for t' e good time that's near When pultry of all k s free— Trow grac g the epicure’s dish— 1dwe view with the greatest of glee The raid which is made upon fish.” —Oshkosh Advocate. The Vanquished Clerk. a rady once, of fascinating mien, Ent'ring a store, desire « to get a bow; At which the clerk, with visage quite screne, “Threw himse!f back, as if to say, “I’ll go!” And he did say, I'm at your service, ma’am!” Meaning, of course, that he her beau would Self-confidaot and « «uite polite T am,” 0 dount he thought ) **Will you x.n—m of me?” Could he have guessed the lady’s quick re- tort That should so xoon annihilate his pun— Had he but known a woman’s power %o thwait Snch m ashis, he would not thus have u.ILL as wink the lady thus replied: :i‘u not want a green one, hut a buff!” At hich the clerk proceeded to subside, Andseemed to think his joke was poor enough. E. R. Latra. Mary's Slam. Mary had a little sled On which she used toscoc t; One day as down the hill she -ped, She fell and peele] her sn ot. Her J«r)mn) now, with bitter tear, h! how s.d are those! ki-s my little dear For fear I'll hurt her nose!” —_— In a Quandery. ANXIOUS BRIDE. “We've c me now, Mr. Preacher, As others oft have done; And I am very snxious For you to make us ore. Th - wedding-ring is ready— The license, 10, is here; Our right to De united, To ev'ry one is clear,” MINISTER. ‘0 say not so, my lady, When, to his shame, I find This man is now in liquor, nd does not know Lis mind! But come again to-morrow, When he has sober grown, And I shall surely wed you, And he shall be your own.” BRIDE. “Show pity, Mr. Preacher, And wei us now, Ipray And do not keep us waiting Until another day; For if, upon the morrow, The man should sober be, And know what he was dom" He would not marry me —{Chicazo Tribune, —— An Illinois Obituary. She heard the angels calling ber, 3, and away she went ‘To make one angel more, FEDI'B BLOOD BATH. Wew Yurs Diepiich On the evening of Jaly 11, 1866, MartinFedi, a releateilconvict, golng on foot from Toul>n to his home in the Vosges, reached the yillage of Balliere. He exhibited his papers to the gendarme, and was permitted to enter the village tavern, where he pro- eured food and a bottle of wine. The Iandlord, however, learned that he was an ex-convict. and refused to give Rimabed. Fedi was indignant, and » fight between him and the host was dmminent, when the latter’s friend eame to his aid and hustled the galley slave Into the street. He purchaced » flask of brandy at a shop near by, and went off muttering profane threats of vengeance, which were heard by many. An hour later, that is to say, at 7 o’clock, the landlord went out, saying that he had _important business with the village lawyer. He did not re turn His wife went st day-light to the lawyer's house. He was greatly surprised to learn of her husband’s absence. He had not seen him, he maid, for two days. His housekceper had informed him that he had called Iast evening, but found him, the speaker, absent, and had gune away prouising to return, but had not done s0. What the busiaess of importance c:uld be the lawyer couald not conjec- tare. Scveral other villagers had seo Jim, hut none could suggast a clew 1o his present whereabou's. The frightened woman now caused a thorough search to be made. The wearching party found asleep against Lof the charch , which stood kiris « f the villaze, & man His hu- and hauds were besmearcd wizh blood, »nd t77re were tracea of i on hiz clothing. heavy kaobbed end of a kuotted stick beside him was slcostain -1 with ¢ re. he grass near by was an emp's flisk which had contamed brandy. When the sleener exhibite] every t<ken of huwing bern ona vat debau h He conld g've no coherent acerant of him- bat ho was rec g vesd #s 1 beli nt ex-couvict His apprarance »:1 the recollec'ions of his savag tacets against the i sivg mar were considerel quite seflicunt causes to an horiz: kLis arrest. Asach of the church discover @ n the o7t of the belfey whare lot of ige.us had taken up ther quarters, ¢ rpan . thy landlori, with his araing baater 01, and his throat zat “The be | ro>m beluw bore traces of a desperte arrugzle, and the flor had be-n delazed aud the walls bespattered with blood. to death, with aroused, | the recommendation to wmercy usual in Freach criminal | trials. He was accorded it, and sent back to the jail he had left the week before to remain thece for life. In the midd'e of the year 1869 the widow of Jean Jacques Lassier was amazed to receive the following TO HER, INCOMPREHENSIBLE LETTER: “DEar S1sTER—The newspapers we occasionally receive even in this sec- tion of the world have conveyed to me the information of your terrible bereavement. My poor brother! would it had been in my power to have lain hands on his butcherly assassin! The law would have been spared a most unnecessary trouble. It is the more painful to think that death over- took him at the very time it fell in my power to return to him a portion of the favor he so genercusly extena- ed to me ten years ago. 1 complete the restoration by forwarding to the same agent by the same mail as car- ries this letter the remaining 15,000 francs . f the 60,000 which fell to Jean’s ehare. The mine is proaper- ing, and thers will be still further re- turns from it.” This puzeling epistle was signed “Hecter Bouchet,” and dated from Gimpie Creek, Australia. The Widow Lassier in her perplex iy went to Monsieur Castine, the lawyer, for advice. Allshe could tell wa- that her husband h:d epoken to her cacaally of a half-brother, to whom, on his father’s death, he had given up his own share of the small fo.tune the latter left to s:art him in business in Australia, whither he emi grated. She had never heard Lissier allude to the matter -gain, and as to his having received any such sum as the latter alluded to he hid, on the contrary, died, leaving no sssets but the 1nn. Monsieur Castine undertook, 1f pos- sible, to discover the myslsnouu agent spoken of in the letter, and he advised his client me mtime to keep her own couneel in ths matter. Her husband had probably died without recciving the money from his brother, and the agent, findirg no call made upon him for the sum, nad quietly devoted it to his ownuse. The only way to capture him and recover the money was to re main silent, and so give him no warn- {ng that his crime was discovered. Madame Lassier acquiesced in this very reascnable suggestion. On her return home it struck her, however, that it would be just as well to write to Hector Bouchet for the name of his ageut in France. She accordingly did 80, »nd mailed the letter hersclf, tell- ing her lawyer nothing about it. Tbres months passed. Monsienr Castine, who was conctantly on the eve of discovering the culprit, never got farther. At last a reply arrived | from Australia to the widow's lettir. | The name of Hector Bouchet's agent, to whom 60,000 frar cs had been | sent for Jean Jacques Lessier, was Monsiear Victor Castine, advocate, at Belliere. The lawyer who was assist- ing Madame Lassicr to discover the thief was the criminal himself. Madame Lassier w.s a woman of | some education and great resolution. | She locked the letter up and carried a copy of it to the lawyer in person Castine at first laughed at ! er charge, but when she threatened to place the case in the hands of the po ice he los* his nerve and proposed a s:ttlement. | The money, he =ccknowledged, had reached him on the very day Jean| Jacques Lassier had been fou d dead. ! The latter had probably rcceived a notification of its arrival the day be- ! fore, and it was doub:less on that businese that te had called to see the | lawyer on that night which had ended so fata’ly for tim. Finding himself in possession of what was to him such a prin ely sum, Castine had stroggl d long between duty and devl, and | succumbed at last to the evil coun- selor. He was perfectly willing to make i restitution. Hs had the sum intact, and if the widow would pledge herself | not to prosecute him, and would give up the original of the criminating | letter, he would render up to her the | stolen fortune eou for sou. Madame Lassier wa« too anxious to recover her money to hagule over the terms. She | acceded unhesi atingly to Castine’s proposition, and the latter proposed to go with ber to her house, TO GET THE LETTER. | “No! no!” she replied. ‘‘You get the money reacy, whllBIbl‘llg lhe letter. It wili save time, Huf mad with excitement ste| hurzied home, eccured tha letter, | asd returnel to the lawyer’s house. | As she left the inn her head waiter | call-d after her to ask her abont ting which had to be attended mce. She either did not hear or dil no* pay any attention to hm, nd he '\.;'ried after her. She gained 1 \ >~’s hous» 1n advance of him, | 1the Goor was opaned for her by | t\ 2 old hous keeyer who slammed ! i toagin, Th:man was A piercing shriek raached his ears. It cams from the incerior of thy house, anl was fol- lowad by another and anuther. ° Raco:pizinz his mistress’s vol houest fellow threw himself bodily agai thodoor. It was burst from | us fastenings, aad ho stazgere1 iato | abroad aallway. Through ths open | door of 2 room at theend came ths | oiscs « f a fariousstrazgle. The man | into this apirtment just in | time to seze thoarm of the lawyer as | he reised a knife to pluags into Maiame Lissior's body, while | the oid housekeeper held h—r with her arms around her throat. terrific struggle tollowed. The lawy»r inflicted several wounds on his assail- | th Martin Fadi was pat on trial for the morder of Jean Jacques Lassier, pub- Tican. He declired himself innocent, ard told, as uearly as he could recall them, his adventures of the fatal might. He had, he said, set out after purchasiug the brandy, ivtending to walk ts the next vilage and get a bed there. Bat he wis waeary of his journey of the dsy, and the night being pleasant he concluded to spend it in the churchyard. He had emptied his bottle and gone to sleep near where he was found. During the might he had bsen awakened by & stream of woter, ae he supposed, de-. luging his face. He was too drunk to bother himself about it, and wiped his face dry, and, shifting his posi- don, went to -leep again. This explanation was regarded as so preposterous that the judge laughed st it Martin Ferdi was senterced ant with the knife, when the lattor luoceeded in wrenching it from him and driving it again and again into his body. The old woman had her haods full attending to the muscalar | widow. As the lawyer rolled, bleed- ing, on the floor, a number of villagers | whom the noise of the combat had at- tracted to the house, came to the as- sistance of the widow snd her defend er, and the wounded miscreant and his accomplice were'arrested. The remander of the story, as it was eiicited at what became ne of the most famous of historic trials in the land of crimicel romances, is easily told. Victor Castine was the murd i rer of Jean Jacques Lassier. Hector Bou- chet, who had kn=wn the lawyer pre- vious 1o his departu-e from F:amce, ~nd who w.s ignorant of he beother's exact whe-sab u‘s, had chosen Sto Las: from him, with the liberal interes: that the profits of the spec wrote to Bouchet, aigning his victim's ready released himself by the process | bottles of St. N\ it | . the money he bad borrowed ion he bad invested it in had provided. He had forwarded the m mey in Bauk of England nots,and nosified his brother he same mail, to the address of a friend in Ronen, that if he would call at the lawyer’s he would learn cf comething to his advantage. Thele:- ter was forwirded at once by the friend to its destination. Castine, who bad already made up his mind ts ap- propriate the money to his own use, denied all knowledge of its meaning, and under pretenss of arguing the matter undistarbed, had induced Las sier to stroll as far as the wvillage church with him. The door of the sacristan’s room had been left open by accident and the inn-keeper went tu close it. As he leaned forward to call if any ons was in the church ths lawyer aimed a furious blow at him with a heavy cane he cariled. It missea Lassier's head and de- scended on his shoulder. The ina- keeper staggered forward into the church and hearing the steps of his murderer behind him ran blindly for- ward. Castine puraved him. The faint light of the dying day whict found its way down the belfry stairs directed the fugitive's flight, and he contrived to gain the bell floor before his assassin overtook him Then he turned at bay »nd screamed for help. He uttered but ons cry. Bofore a second could escape him the murderer felled him with a ferocious blow. Even then Lassier, who was a very powerful man, fought cesperate ly, and only succumbed when Castine, having battered his head to pieces, cut his throat with his hunting knife. His blocd deluged the floor, and stream'ng out through the gargogled waterspout provided to carry off the water, which in the rainy season blew in ihs bel fry, it pattered down on the drunken tramp below, and dyed him with the damning marks which had cost him his liberty and almost his life. Having assured himself that Lis victim was dead, Castine had stowed him away in the lott overhead, and gone home. His first werk was to instruct his housekeeper and the course in case of inquiry whichshe had pursued. The old woman was devoted to him, and obeyed him to the letter. Then he nan e, and acknowledzing the receipt of the money. When the widow made the discovery she did, he determined to get her out of the way, too, and | flee. That he did not was no fault | of s, | He died of his w.unds in prison. | The old womau was sentenced toa | long penal term for her complicity | with him. His sc pegoat was not re- | leased from his unmerited confinement | for the single reason that he had al- of suicide. As for the widow she did not marry her preserver, as she ought in all log- ical Literary justice to have done. On the contrary, she charged him cn the | first discovery of certain piculiarities | of his, and had him sent to prison for theft. He has abandoned the life- saving business for good siuce, The T.rrible Snow, For Tus Bk Where shali T turn for s lace to-night— The snow has obscured all from my sight; Tts mantle e'n cavers hills and dales, And te our windows it has left demi vails. And we sich for relief, here below, From the mael-trom, which is all aglow; { Tt is sparkling, and fleecy, too, I ween, Baut its depths before I ne'er hath secn. Defend us from the terrible snows, Whose chilling thra'doms are mundane Woes— And the sequence will be mnd and mire, Filling our souls with bitterest ire. 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