Complex sentence: After a contented afternoon fishing, he goes to the prison at midnight in order to move the guillotine to the prison yard; on the way there he realizes his dogs have been killed; he is surrounded and stabbed to death.
Split into simpler sentences: After a contented afternoon fishing, he goes to the prison at midnight in order to move the guillotine to the prison yard. On the way there he realizes his dogs have been killed; he is surrounded and stabbed to death.