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his chains, the headsman cut off the collar
of his coat with small but a very sharp

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The shirt-collar was removed, and, with
a pair of sharp scissors. the hair of the
prisoner was removed, the whole ope-
alton occupying only few minutes.
In the mean time the prisoner, whom
the touch of the cold steel caused ts'
shuddcr again and again, uttered loud
yells, groans and imprecations.
"Oh, that my bullet had not missed the
heart Of that cruel King" he finally ex-
claimed.
s:Silence" thundered the headsman,
ssAnnother such remark and I shall have
gag you!''
ssDown with King Frederick William
IV?" cried the prisoner, defnantlv.
The next second the headsman had
fastened small iron gag in the mouth of
his victim.
The latter tried to cry out, but was able
to produce only sort of a low gurgling
sound.
The headsman tfen began to examine
the prisoners neck with hi hands. He
nodded his head with an air of satisfac-
ton.
''That is good neck,' he murmured
Then he LETT the cell.
The doomed man was no other than
the would-be .regicide, Sefelogue, who
had deliberately fred at the breast of
King Frederick William ". OF Prussia.
But his bullet had rebounded, the King
having worn mailclad vest. What SET
eloge's motive was in attempting to
shoot the King has never been defnately
ascertained. He seemed to be sort of
crack-brained utopist, and a number of
eminent physicians pronounced him in
sane.
Efforts were made to induce the King
to commute the sentence of death that
had been passed upon Sefeloge. But
Frederick William turned deaf ear to
those circumstances. His reason had
been unsettled by the revolutionary com
motions Of l848, and there can be but
little doubt that in 1850 he was already
insane. Thus crowned mailman signed
the death warrant of another lunatc!
Until midnight Sefeloge renamed N
his cell heavily ironed ana gagged. Then
his letters were removed, and a sumptr-
GUS repast was served to him.
On the eve of their execution Prussian
culp,its are treated with great liberality.
They gave him also bottle of port wine,
which he drank so rapidly that he was
soon completely intoxicated. And now
the doomed regicide became horribly
hilarious.
He made fun Of himself, and joked
about his impending death. He demand,
ed more wine, and it was given to him.
At last he fell into sort Of stupor, and
passed a few hours in itful slumber.
At five o'clock in the morning the
headsman shook him by the shoulder.
Sefeloge uttered a cry of alarm. Upon
recognizing the headsman he turns
deadly pale.
''Iu is timei" said the headsman.
The prisoner threw himself upon the
stone floor of his cell, and rolled on it, a
prey to indescribable anguish.
His appeals for mercy become deafen-
ing, and in this condition he had to be
carried to the scafiold. There he almost
became superhumanly strong, and for six
minutes the headsman and his assistants
were unable to drag him to the block
upon which he was going to end his life.
The witnesses of the shocking scene on
the scaffold were terribly excited. One
Of the clerks of the court tainted. Others
had to leave the scafold in hot haste
Scfeloge's yells and roars were so deafen-
ing that they were heard at considera.
BILE distance
At last he was fastened to block
He uttered the last cry when the heads
mans ak descended on his neck, and a
thick stream of blood rose from the his
trunk.
He was deau.