Show INTO THE MOUTH OF HELL plunging to an awful death down the crater of a volcano the awful death of a brazilian traveler who recently topped over into the molten lava of vesuvius recalls the act fact that a number of persona persons are known to have perished in a similar way in 1830 1839 a merchant of gaela gaeta named Bo priola dell deliberately berte ly comm eted suicide by leaping into the c crater rater of the mountain in which a lake of fire was raging Kinz and bending sending up at intervals volumes of deadly sulphurous enaes there never was any doubt that di imola intentionally sought death in vesuvius it was shown afterward that he labored under a it pecullar mania his ilia two companions one a peasant guide and the other a friend nho who had accompanied compa nied di D priola from naples on what was supposed to be a mission of curiosity both testified that D di priola left their side while the air was clear and bis his movements could easily be seen ran to the very edge of the crater and leaped with an awful cry into the chasm at tho the time they went with him up the mountains s they saw no signs 0 of mental derangement but soon oon R after after fter reaching the top he began begin talking i in an erratic way about some ein sin he lie bad committed and the hope lese nees of ever being forgiven for it even this did not alarm them as aney did not riot connect the utterances with any design of suicide until be he actually away and took the awful leap it appeared upon inquiry that he be bad committed some of fence or believed he bad as nobody elee else knew anything about it and brooded blooded over the matter until his his ilia reason remon became unsettled becoming convinced that he was bure sure of eternal punishment anyway he concluded to go to the locality by way of vesuvius the burning mountain has witnessed darker crimes than suicide italians have not yet forgotten the sensation pensa penea tion caused in IM 1850 when hen a frenchman named chabrol from bordeaux was arrested on a charge of having murdered hia his wife and a guide named collegno colleano Col legno by pushing them into the crater there was no evidence except circumstantial to sustain the charge of murder and confession rung rang out by torture is not the best corroboration but there never was any doubt among the fellon guides gaides of collegio Col leeno legno that both the latter an and ia madame i k dame chabrol were pushed d ov over r in into t 0 the crater chabrol it appeared from tha the testimony taken at t the trial was a retired wine merchant of bordeaux of middle age and traveling for recreation vesuvius bad shown some signs of an approaching outburst but was not considered dangerous and there was nothing peculiar peco liar in Chab rols purpose to visit the tile volcano other tourists were doing eo so every evey day and women were comet im es in the parties madame chabrol was wag a healthy looking frenchwoman like her husband about bo 50 years ol 01 of age collegno colleano Col legno one ct of the best beat guides of that period was escort they started early in the morning and progressed very leisurely stopping at frequent intervals tor for rett reit and refreshment and reaching the top of the mountain late in the afternoon atter noon aa As to what hat happened P ene d there only chabrol survived to tell As he told the story first he be said that although I 1 the he ground was warm a few jets of vapor and gasses called fuma luma roles by the italiana italians escaping from small fissures were the only signs of volcanic activity madame iad chabrol wanted to see more and asked the guide to approach the edge of the crater 51 31 chabiel Ch abiol in vain endeavoring deavo ring to dissuade bis big wife from such dangerous curiosity the guide joined the husband in protesting but as the madame threatened to go alone Colleg colleano collegno Col legno nio said he would accompany her chabrol remained at a distance the guide and madame cha brol was wag standing looking into the crater when a volume of sulphurous vapor rising ajom the pit bid him from view and compelled chabrol himself to retreat come distance when the cloud cleared away neither guide cor nor woman could be seen charrold Chab rold rols etory story seemed plausible and the authorities were willing og to accept it and would have released the man Coll collegnon Colleg egnos nog friends ware not satisfied however they thought him too experienced a guide to have perished in that way and they felt convinced that chabrol was a murderer the wife and daughter of coll egno went to naples and an audience with king bombala minis ter of justice chabrol was put un dera der riest artest under pressure pree eure of the peculiar methods then frequently resorted to 14 in naples he at length confessed that be bad had killed the wife and the he guide by pushing them both into the lake of fire re that boiled beneath the crater his ilia motive for murdering ill bis his was to marry a young parson who was with him in his travels aa as a niece he ile got rid rl l of the guide because the latter would have otherwise been a witt witness leas of the wie wile mor der chabrol was executed at naples one of the bor horrible things charged against king bamba was t that hat he caused victims of bis his hatred to be bound boun d hand and foot and thrown into vesuvius Ve savins the king was guilty of eo so many cruelties cruel ties that it I 1 is possible po geible that the charge waa was true who took part in the insurrection of 1849 an and d was sentenced to imprisonment for life la in a dungeon waa was never heard board of afterwards and was not found I 1 in the dungeon clungeon when poerio and others were liberated waa was rily obnoxious to the king because bo be bad had spat upon hia his Maje portrait in the palace at capuca and bad had eaid said many off leneive things about bomba bombs it is a tradition in naples that on the night following the sentence waa was taken from the donge dungeon ont pinioned hand and foot carried to the top of mount blount vesuvius 1 and nd thrown into the crater bambi bomb was BO so ingenious in devising torture for bis his victims that the tradition is probably true the mot most recent cas case ot of death in the molten lake previous to that of the brazilian de do silvas waa was that of 31 vigne vignes from besancon vignes undoubtedly committed suicide during the eruptions of 1853 1 or to be precis just before they began lie left his ilia gal guide de and leaped into the ob chasm a in and was never seen or beard heard I 1 from ro m again he lie did not even cry out A love affair la Is said to have prompted vignes to belt self destruction lie ile was only 22 32 yeara years of age at at that time here there was some ge disc lac nuion jw ion aa as to the suffering attending bach a method of I 1 A ahm suicide the opinion generally expressed by medical men was that the man was unconscious from the eul phu r f fjones u me s b batore e for s th the e a awful 1 ail d dip i p i into li tc the e i liquid u d m mass a s a 0 ot i v nn aal lard t t 4 focht ro c w 1 a and n d th that b at alves had endured no pain A band of bri brigande brig gands acda that d in the wooda woods on the elopes slopes odelma in a 1803 1868 under the leadership of the infamous Blo used to threaten their victims with death in the volcano io in the event of the ransom not being paid whether they ever carried out the threat is not known but it is thought possible at least they frequently had prisoners Bones in whore redemption gently demp tion nobody took any interest a and nd the peasants have always baia said t that hat bank some of them in the bowels of mount jetna etna it ie is a saying among italian pea ants anta today to day who live in that vicinity when they hear bear subterranean ramblings gs that ig Is throwing bia his victims into the crater in the Ilaw hawaiian alian islands the savage cli chief lefe before the introduction of christianity I 1 cast criminals into the boiling I 1 lav a va 0 of I 1 kilauea Kilau ea and this was sometimes Bome times ame d me in the way of sacrifice to propitiate the volcanic god when believed to be on the eve ot eruption unhappily therefore the ewe case of the brazilian la is cot not wi without phout a number of unhappy precedents both in savage and nominally no civilized countries loun tries |