The New Hampshire Gazette

From a London Paper of April 8.
A STRANGE STORY.
The roads through the Republican territory continue to be infested by robbers, inasmuch that those who have occasion to travel, having been long apprised by the public prints of the number of assassinations committed by those Brigands, no longer expose themselves by night on the public roads. The Brigands, thus finding their plans defeated, have adopted another mode, of which One of them became the victim a few days ago. In the village of Trappe, about a league distant from Versailles, a traveller found himself benighted. The roads in the vicinity being unsafe be determined to sleep there.. He entered into a small tavern, and conversed with the wife, in whose conversation he thought he could distinguish an honest heart. Just as he was on the point of going to bed, at half past ten o'clock, he heard some one entering the house : he listened gently at the door, to discover whether it was the landlord of the tavern, who was absent on his arrival. The first words he heard were addressed by the wife to the husband : "Have you found any game this evening?" No, replied the husband. We have some above stairs, said the wife. They now went in, and the traveller heard no more. His situation was terrible. To remain where he was, was dangerous, to make a pretext for going out, till more o. He stirred the cinders, as if in the act of covering the fire, let his shoes fall, and, in a word, made pretty nearly the noise of a person going to bed. He now seated himself on the bed, kept his pistols and sword in readiness, and expected, not without agitation, the moment when he foresaw he should be attacked. At midnight: the noise of a ladder placed against the wall, and that of a trap raised at the bed-side, convinced him of the attempt which was about to be made He crept by the foot of the bed, and at the instant when the tavern-keeper had half entered the room, he made a cut at his head with a sabre. The latter fell into the apartment below. The light being extinguished, the woman who mistook her wounded husband for the traveller: laid hold of him and cut his throat. At this moment the trampling of horses was heard : the traveller looked out at the window, and perceived a body of Gendarmes who were returning from escorting the mail. He gave an alarm, and the Gendarmes forced the door. The traveller told his story. The Gendarmies seized both him and the woman, and conducted them to prison at Versailles, where they are now trying by the Criminal Tribunal of the Department of Seine and Oise.