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         On 18 November 1307, Tell visited Altdorf with his young son and passed by the hat, publicly refusing to bow to it, 
         and so was arrested. 
        Gessler—intrigued by Tell's famed marksmanship, yet resentful of his defiance—devised a cruel punishment: 
        Tell and his son would be executed, but he could redeem his life by shooting an apple off the head of his son, Walter,
        in a single attempt. 
        Tell split the apple with a arrow from his crossbow But Gessler noticed that Tell had removed two crossbow arrows
        from his quiver, not one. 
        Before releasing Tell, he asked why. 
        Tell replied that if he had killed his son, he would have used the second bolt on Gessler himself. 
        Gessler was angered, and had Tell bound.

        Tell was brought to Gessler's ship to be taken to his castle at Küssnacht to spend his newly won life in a dungeon. 
        But, as a storm broke on Lake Lucerne,the soldiers were afraid that their boat would founder, and 
        unbound Tell to steer with all his famed strength. 
        Tell made use of the opportunity to escape, leaping from the boat at the rocky site now known as the Tellsplatte

        Tell ran cross-country to Küssnacht. 
        As Gessler arrived, Tell assassinated him with the second crossbow bolt along a stretch of the road cut through the rock 
        between Immensee and Küssnacht, Tell's blow for liberty sparked a rebellion, in which he played a leading part. (ref: Wikipedia)

        Again below 8 beautiful 14 cm restored magic-lantern slides. 
        Unfortunately not complete, but nevertheless beauty's to look at.

              

              

              

              

        

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