Butte record., 1854-11-25

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{. Was this act suggested to you %
'sWhat one has not conceived ones self,
is badly executed"
What did you dislike in him ~
." His crimes"
What did you mean by that ?'--
g The injuries done to France"
g What did you hope for in killing
him - "To give peace to my coun-
try"
Do you think you have killed all the
Marats 90 '.This one dead, the others
perhaps will tremble."
"Since when had you informed this
design - " Since the 3lst OF My,
when the representatives, Of the people
we're arrested here y
The President, after the evidence Civ
en- against her: What answer do you
make to that :" 'Nothing, as long as
have succeeded"
Her veracity was on'y contradicted in
one point. She declared thas at the re-
view at Caen there were thirty thousand
men. She wished to make Paris trem-
bic.
Several answers showed that this res
olute heart was not an unnatural one.
She could not hear TO the end the eyi-
dence given, often interrupted by sobs
by the wife of Marat She hurriedly
said, q es, it was me who killed him. "
She also shuddered when the knife
was shown her, and turned away her
head, pushed it back with her hand, say
ing in a broken voice, " YES, 1 recognise
til recognise it."
Eouquier Tinyille drew attention to
the fact that she had struck from above,
in order that the blow should not fail in
striking a b, and added, Apparently
you have been accustoming your hand
to t5is for some time :" ooh, the
wretch - cried she, " he takes me for
al. assassin" " This word, said Chau-
veau-Lagarde, was like clap of thun-
der.
The trial was closed: It had lasted
half an hour.
President Montane wanted to save her.
He changed the question put by the
jury, contcndirg himself with asking,
:. Did she do it with premeeditation ~
and suppression tbs second part of the
formula, "with criminal and contre rev.
olutionary designs :" This was brought
against him az his arrest some days af-
ter.
The President in order to save, and
the jury in order to humiliate her, wan
ted the candidate to represent her as
crazy. lie looked at her and read it in
her eyes he aided her as she wished to
be, establishing the long premeditation !;
but, notwithstanding the defense, she
did not wish to be defended. Young,
and carried away by the sight of this
great courage, he yentured upon this
word, (Which so nearly brought him to
the scaffold, This calm sacrifice, sub
lime with reference to-
After the condemnation she approach
ed her young advocate, saying, with
much grace, that she thanked him for
this delicate and generous defence, and
wished to give him some token of her es-
teen. "These gentlemen have just
told me that my property has been con-
fscated I owe something at the prison,
and l leave it to you TO discharge my
debt"
On descending from the hall by the
dark staircase and turning into the cells
which are below, she smiled at her fell
low-prisoners who were looking at her
as she passe1, and excused herself f; ON
the promise she had made to the porter
Richard and his wife TO breakfast with
them, She received the visit Of a priest
who came to offer his attendance, and,
showing him out politely, she said =
g Thank those persons for me who have
sent YOU"
She observed that during the trial a
painter was endeavoring to catch her
features, She instantly turned to him,
and after the sentence gave to him the
last moments which remained before the
execution. The painter, NJ. Hauer,
was second in command of battilion Of
the Cordeliers. He owed perhaps to
his ranks the favor of being left with
her, but one gendarme being present.
ohe talked with him very TRANQUILITY on
indifferent subjects, on the events Of the