AN OLD STORY.
Here its an old-fashioned story, culled from an old book: Where there is no integrity, there can be no confidence; and where there is no confidence, there can be no unanimity. Three German robbers having acquireid, by various Atrocities, what amounted to a very valuable booty, they agreed to divide the spoil, and to retire from so dangerous a vocation. When the day appointed for this purpose arrived, one of them was despatched to a neighbouring town to purchase provisions for their last carousal. The other two _ secretly, agreed to murder him on his return, that they might come iv for one-half of the plunder, instead of a third. They did so. But the murdered man was' a closer calculator even than his assassins, for he had previously poisoned a part of the provisions, that he might appropriate to himself the whole of the spoil. This precious triumvirate were found dead together —a signal instance that nothing is so blind and suicidal as the selfishness of vice.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 2
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170AN OLD STORY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 2
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