A STORY OF A KISS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 195, 23 January 1875, Page 3

A STORY OF A KISS.

Very recently a Veveyse, in the canton of Priburg, a young baker received a visit from two young girls whose object was to settle a bread account. In squaring the account there was a centime short, and the baker laughingly proposed to liquidate this balance by kissing the elder of the two sisters, who was sixteen years of age, to which she acceded. This amused the youngest girl, who in her turn also received a kiss. When they returned home they recounted the circumstance to their parents as a piece of pleasantry; but the father was by no means disposed to view the occurrence in this light. He immediately went off to consult the cure, who characterised the act as a scandal; the latter forthwith went to the syndic, and this functionary without loss of time mustered the whole Communal Council, and the affair began to assume colossal proportions. A charge of attempt at corruption was launched against the baker, and judicial proceedings were commenced. But the father of the young baker heard of what was passing, and warned his son, who judged it prudent to leave his business and the town, and take refuge in Geneva; but justice was not to be defeated, and the authorities of Friburg demanded the extradition of the youth from the Government of Geneva. He was given up, seemingly without hesitation, and was incarcerated in the prison of Chatel for eighteen days before his case came on for hearing. The charge was eventually referred to the Chambre d’Accusation, who, however, declared that it was unfounded.