Show AWFUL rate or A YOUNG CARMELITE NUN by order of the abbess she was IMAS immis onea ill ie an underground cell for twenty years VIENNA june 21 sister barbara U arika ft a carmel carmelite ite nun who in ill the year year 1879 was the innocent cause of if riots at Craw krawcow cow has just biedin n lunatic in that ety where she has spent pent s the last twenty two v ars of her anh unhappy appy life sister barbara belonged to a noble family who had forced her ter to enter a religious 0 order for the purpose of preventing lier her from marrying hurrying a 1 young officer of tho the Lin lancers cers with whom she was violently in love but who unfortunately it biad ad neither rank title or fortune on oil entering intile inthe grini grim old convent of f car cow she cea ceased wil nil all communications eions with her ter f family amily sit at her c express desire as it was believed at the time and it was not until ill more than twenty years had elapsed that one of her ter brothers inquiring bioni the roli religious ious authorities what had become of his beautiful ister amsler was given ivell to understand that she was no lont longer C r on oil the list of the liv living struck by tile stillness of the answer ho proceeded to the archbishop of chacow cracow cr abow s p palace ilace and throwing himself at tile the venerable prelates pr elates feet entreated him to find out if his sister si ter bai barbara bara were really dead tho the Arli archbishop bishop immediately took steps to discover the truth but the abbess of the carmelite convention con convent ventin in which sister barbara was supposed opposed Lup i posed to it have ave died not only to anal answer ir at any I 1 y questions about the matter but availing in herself of the inviolability of convents absolutely declined tu to allow a I 1 government official to pass tile the portals thereof archbishop malecke Ua Gra lecke who wis was a 1 just and encil enlightened man mail thereupon secured tile the assistance of the I police police and surrounded by a battalion of gendarmes gen end darmes arnies conci commanded banded by count forced an all entrance into the convent in spite odthe of alie des resistance the alio invectives odthe infuriated nuns who actually went 0 so o far aa a to arm arin themselves with stones ami the military narrowly escaped being n ignominiously 0 repulsed by these holy women against whom they dared not draw their swords after a ion long earell the archbishop baisl 10 1 and his party descended into tile hc dungeons dungeon 3 fifteen feet underground ground Z cr where they heard carr li low groans end moans which sounded more like those of a brute than a human bunian proceeding from froin a half bricked up cell in a narion stone pasa passage 0 gc lit in this living tomb seven paces long by six paces wide they thes discovered by tile light 0 of tj flu it torches they carried cirri cd a naked aalke woman ion dishevelled dishevel led hair crouching T in the corner of her ter filthy prison at the si fright I 1 lit of li light 0 lit the unfortunate clealure cica clea turu ture bogan to with terror and za springing I 1 to her ter fret feet tore at the granite wall with her ter talon like nails with much trouble the bricks which more than half closed up tit thy entrance were remo removed veI all ami the raving ravin inmate of the lie cell was avas approached t 1 it was wag found that loth both her feet and hands were loo loosely cly bound with steel chains so a as to avoid the remotest t pos possibility ability of escape esea peon on glicr ter pirt part and that her whole body was covered with lil ulcers cers whilst her tangled tresses tresi cs were simply alive with ver vermin inin this was bister barbara ISar bira insane and having 0 lost the power of speech ill in consequence oilier of glicr incarceration for over nineteen years vear in this chain chamber ber of physical physic af and mental torture the archbishop horrified beyond nic measure aure had the abbess brought before hini him find fri frightened 0 likened into con coil fussing fesing to him that this barbarous deed had been perpetrated by her ter orders and in punishment of what she called a crime committed by bv sister barbara barb ira the cr crime inie consisted consisted in her glicr having during the first year of her convent life kept up a correspondence with her former lover anti and at her havin li ivin consented by letter to elope with will hini him |