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Death from a Fright.The following extraordirtanr circumstance reluted by Gallignani'i Paris .llu-sengtr, well illustrates the danger of trying tricks upon the sensibility of imagination:Two young men, the Count de Brech-tenstein and Baron Lieftern, lately lived together at Perth, in Hungary, on intimate terms. The former always boastedof his intrepidity, and declared that nothing could frighten him. “What! not even supernatural things?” said M. de Lieftcrn. “Even less than others,” said his friend, ‘•since they do not exist.” The upshot of the affair was, that a bet of one Hundred ducats was made by M. de Lieftern that should be able to terrify his friend. Four months passed over and nothing was heard of the wager, when one evening M. de Lieftcrn persuaded his frieds valet to per mit him to hide under his master's bed.— He took care to draw the balls trom a pair of pistols that always hung at the head.— M- de Brechtenstein returned home, as usnal, and went to bed. As toon as he bad falleu asleep M. de Lieftern came out from under the bed, threw a sheet around him, and put on a mask representing a skull. He then drew the quilt to awake his friend, who, on seeing the spectre, cried, “be off, and leave me quiet!”— Seeing the figure still remained, he took down one of the pistols and fired it at him. M. de Lieftern then rolled on the bed one the bulls he had taken from the pistols.— M. de Brechtenstein, who was sitting up, on seeing this, fell buck in the bed. His friends ran forward to assure him tlr.it it was all a trick, but M. de Brechtenstein was dead— he had been struck with apoplexy. M. de Lieftern immediately gave himself into custody. The valet has been arreated, and both will be tried in the course of next month.
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Burlington Iowa Territorial Gazette and Advertiser
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Jan 03, 1846
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