Note 72 — Chapter XXVI · IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE RENAISSANCE—EARLY ATTEMPTS TO DISSECT THE HUMAN BODY
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Some weeks later our fellow voyager, Thomas Schoepfius, wrote to me that, on the return journey, he learned at Berne that “Long Peter,” the leader of the Mézières robbers, had been apprehended by the authorities and executed for his crimes; and that, when stretched on the rack, he had confessed, among other things, that he had tried to murder and rob some students who passed through Mézières on their way to Lausanne.