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BC.769.060
15-18 May 1769:1591 (93)
March 23. We hear that letters from Berlin bring the
following particulars of the discovery of the amour so much
talked of: A great personage at that place being over fond
of an Italian musician, made him a present of a very
valuable family diamond ring; which in a few days after he
offered to sale to a jeweller in that city, who knew the
ring, and asked him how he came by it? The Italian
answered, where I had it, I can have more. -- Upon which the
jeweller stopped the ring, and made it known to a great
potentate, who ordered him at his peril not to divulge this
affair to any body, till he heard from him--In the mean time
orders were given for them to be privately watched; and the
Italian being found in bed with her, he was taken out of the
bed-chamber into the next room, and had his head severed
from his body.
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