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putting him to death , by declaring his innocence to all who inquire about it , provided they are in that situation of life
which authorises them to make any inquiries . To excite a false pity , it has been asserted that he was hanged . I have
the pleasure to assure your Excellency that he was not hanged . His skull was just broken by a club from behind , and he was then beheaded . The fact
leading to his execution is this . His master , the Prelato , had an engagement for the evening , as most Prelati have , and , looking at his watch , found that it had stopped . Upon which he told the servant to take it to
the watchmaker ' s . Soon afterwards a priest , as he was called , but it has since been found that he was not one , came to visit Monsignore , and , rapping at the door , was desired to enter . Monsignore , in opening the table drawer to return him
a paper relative to his affairs , displayed several crown pieces jand some gold . The priest ( we will call him so ) , an excellent man , but instigated at 1 that moment by the devil , the
< enemy of all mankind , but ¦ mostly of the religious , the [ priest , I say , instigated , pricked Band spurred by him , seized a men-knife lying on a blue
paper-case , stabbed his benefactor tto the heart , seized the money , 3 ^ nd walked aw ay . As we never know in Italy fclhe exact circumstances
attendjunt upon any trials whatever , 3 > r indeed anything in which -the police is concerned , everything relating to it being formed
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on the admirable plan of the Inquisition , there is some divergence in the remainder of the history . Certain it is
however that the servant was apprehended ; certain it is that the watch of Monsignore was found in his possession . He declared that he received it from his
master , with orders to take it to the watchmaker , and that he had not taken it so late in the evening , for fear of being robbed . The gentlemen of the police cried out all at once at
the gross improbability of his story . Never was anything so lame , they said ; and then a robber afraid of being robbed ! Such impudence was intolerable : they ordered him forth
immediately to execution . His guilt became , if possible , more certain by his exclamation . . " Oh , could my death bring back my beloved master ! Kind
man ! He never thought of this ! Were I worthy to meet him in Paradise , how little grief should I feel for anything but the tears of my family ! Yet , oh ! the death is cruel that
blackens them through me . It severs me from the world : it severs the world from them Pious , consolatory confessor I dare not at this hour speak falsely . . I die innocent . . let
me—die m peace . " The confessor said , that on hearing his protestation he did entertain his doubts of the man ' s guilt , but that it was not his duty to think
differently from the judges , or to make any representation that might impede the course of justice . Before two years had elapsed the real mynjeirer wa $
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188 High and Low Life in Italy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/44/
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