# Hans Van Uticken, A. D. 1639.

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Like a sweeping tempest which strikes everything,
and carries away whatever is loose, so it also
went at this time in the matter of persecution. All
that were called Anabaptists were taken along,
wherever they could get hold of them. The district
of Uticken-wage had to suffer much in consequence
of this. Among those that lived here, they also
apprehended a pious brother, named Hans van
Uticken,[353](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-17/#Footnote_353) surnamed Muller, who, in the year 1639,
was incarcerated in the convent prison at Zurich.

There they fed him on water and bread, stripped
him in his bonds, and treated him most unmercifully,
until he, having continued therein two years,
became very sick, and as sick as he was, was helped
out of prison, through the assistance of some of his
fellow-believers, who, as it seems, feared his untimely
death.

But when he was brought to his wife and children,
and attained to rest, he died; however, with a joyful
hope and glad soul, because the course of his pilgrimage
(since he was not weakened in his faith and
conscience) was now finished.

Thereupon his wife, because she had lodged her
husband, and the children, because they had shown
mercy to their father, had to pay to the authorities,
a fine of forty pounds. Tracts, Jer. Mang., fol. 6,
A., and M. Meyli, fol. 7, B., num. 13.

Note.—In the year 1639, the thief-catchers of
the city of Zurich, led by one of the ministers of the
church there, who went before them with a light (a
lantern, torch or candle) like maniacs and madmen,
violently entered into the house of a pious brother,
named Rudolf Hagi, whom they forthwith took
prisoner and conducted to Othenbach, a damp and
unwholesome prison of the city of Zurich.

Here he was stripped in his bonds, and kept confined
for about eighty-three weeks; during which
time he, with other of his fellow-believers, was fettered
and chained for sixteen weeks.

In the meantime they searched hard for his wife,
but for the first captured only her oldest child,
which they threatened with iron bonds and handcuffs,
if it would not show where its mother was.
Afterwards they also found the mother, whom they
imprisoned in Othenbach. They, however, when
there was no deliverance at hand, subsequently, by
a certain means, made their escape, together with
their brethren and sisters that were also imprisoned,
without apostatizing from the faith. Tract Jeremiah
Mang., fol. 6, A., compared with M. Meyli, on
the name Rudolf.



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