The story of German thief - Franz Xaver Hohenleiter - Leader of a gang of robbers in what is now the border triangle of Austria , Switzerland and Germany.  Was captured and imprisoned in the Ehinger Tor in Biberach.  He was sentenced to death but before his verdict could be carried out, Hohenleiter died on July 20, 1819, when lightning struck the tower and was passed on through the chains.