Litchfield enquirer., 1836-08-25

[ to walk tof fhe scaffold barefooled Ih his shirt his head covered with a. asblack veil. and the ? sentence to be read to him on reaching the place of execution in presence of the people. 5 He wass moreover, condemned to pay the costs of the trial and to be executed as soon as the Attorney General should think proper.
 The Paris papers seem to say, that the l. speech must have made great impression upon the Peers, as the Police ngents were sent round 10 the several journals. forbiddlng lts publication on peril of seizure of the papers \ The Gasetie dc Frapce and the MessageF both s sapIearAd without the speech {; the latter hav- sl ing left blank space intended for Its inser- 3l ton, and containing in, it's leading columns { an energetic protest against this new viola sl lion of inc charter. This threw. the govern } nlenf into fresh state of alarm. Messengers
 were sent round to make apologies, and the
 Mositeur was Instructed to announce that the
 police agents had acted without the knowl- eedge of the authorities. The trial created a l wonderful sensation in Paris. s,.,.I, ~ :,
 THE EXECUTION. .,4 .,4sJ The execution of Alibeaud took place on
 Monday morning. The scafold was erected
 between midnight and three o'clock. The
 troops on duty, consisting of four or five bat
 tqlions of Infantry, as many squadrons of cav
 airy, and several companies of the Municipal Guards, foot and horse, may be computed at
 thirty tho thousand men. besides a multitude of |
 the Place St. Jaques were guarded; and the | few persons who had obtained access to the
 Place were compelled to fall back, At two
 minutes before five, the prisoner arrived at 1 the foot of the scaffold, the steps of which he
 ascended with . firm step. The prisoner was
 dressed simply in his shirt and trowsers, his head enveloped in a black veil, which descen- ded below his eyes. His feet were naked -- He remained ? few moments in conversation
 !. scafOld, and was then seen to mount it's steps firmly, but deliberately. The attending cler- gyman followed and stood by him while the sentence of the court was read read not in accordance with it's own direction in the
 presence and in the hearing of the assembled
 people, but in the presence of the soldiers,
 by whom the people were removed and re-
 placed. This over, the executioner took off the veil from the, prisoners head. The lat
 ter exclaimed, ]" Farewell, my brave fellows
 He. was instantly seized by the executioner and his ids-made to stand on the ledge be- longing to the plank was strapped to it with { the rapidity of thought the plank descend ed pushed forward the groove in which the neck is inclosed was too small, and, suffering from the pressure. Alibeaud uttered slight shriek, which had scarcely escaped
 him, when the axe fell, ,and he was no more. Y The mutilated remains of the wpetched man were then placed in the usual receptacle "a huge oblong basket, and removed for in Sterment to the cemetery of Mont Parnasse.- The aids of the executoner poured several pails of water on the scaffold and on the pavement, while tho executioner himself re- to- draw up his proces per6al. The gliliotinc was disInounted, and, with the scaffold, pla- ced on the vehicle by which they had arriy- ed, and at half-past five o'clock-that is pre- cisely within half an hour from the moment of the execution -the guards, executioners, and the horrible machinery of death, had left the Place St. Jadues , ''4.. ,s.
 q From the anening Pnst " ! IT I.l14 . 1T
 An article has been published in the Ga zette of this city, and copied into various pa-
 pers, concerning .skhe Whitokers, '' which we are assured contains various gross exaggera- tions and misrepresentation injurious to the character of persons of as great respectabili- ! ty and as of faira reputation as any in Louis
 iania tsRa5'3IN 5FtiE' s a34si z
 Whitaker the father, who is mentioned in
 the article to which we allude as having form ed the design of putting his son to death with his own hands, in ease he should not be par
 doned Or make his escape, has, we are inforns
 ed, been dead for many years. The mother
 and sister of the young Whitaker who com
 nlitted suicide m prison, are persons of excel
 lent character the sister, who is represent ed as threatening to train up her little child ren to put to death the Governor of Louisiana,
 the judge who sentenced and the jailor who confined his brother, is a young lady, unmar-
 ried, of singular beauty, accomplished and
 amiablc. The story of their furnishing young Whitaker with laudanurn to destroy his life was never heard ofin New Orleans and that of her arning herself to assassinate him on his way to execution, in case he should not
 die by his own hand, is as improbable a slan- ger as could have been invented. The sec 4 ond brother of Whitaker, who is said in the
 Gazette to have been shot, is parsonage who
 never existed. There was but one brother. warren Whitaker, who is alive vet and
 this, together with the character of inc fan,i. ly, makes the story of their refusing t, nav :, person whom they employed to execute a ! bust of the deceased, and even wavIaying him to take his life, utterly improbable. The } presence of many highly respectable persons ] of Louisiana at the funeral Of young Whita-
 ker is testimony of the general regard en-
 tertained for the family l7 9i ta iF@FSE ht9'r . The naked truth of the affair is tfis.-- Young Whitaker had killed d man in the fu " of fintoxication.4 He was tried for the of. fence. His mother, brother and sister came to New Orleans, attended the trial, and used every exertion to effect his acuuittal. He
 was condemned to die, and they exerted l themselves with equal i'll success to induce \ tne GoYernor and Senate to commute his punishrMIseiit. M They even endea3orcd to Sesl ], cape The young man was determined not