The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
AT THE EXECUTION.

Inside the Gordon of troops around
the square were Bouche, the attorney
general; Athalin, the Judge of i~nstruc-
ton: the chief of police, Kuhn BARN,
commissary of police of the prison; Sia-
doux, peace officer of the arrondisse-
ment where it is situated, the chief of
the Copenhagen police, with his secre-
tary, aud others, some of whom ragged,
unkempt and dirty, but all claiming to
be members of the "press," pushed and
crowded up to within a few feet of the
scatfold, and it was with great difficulty
that the police succeeded in keeping a
small space cleared around it. The
picket line was broken again and again,
despite their efforts, and what has never
been done in Paris before, the mob
stormed the chaplain's hackney coach,
and a dozen or more gamins swarmed
upon the roof. while amunicipal guards
man in full uniform, with knapsack and
musket complete, shared the box with
the coachman.
Outside the Gordon the crush vas
even %fiercer, and behind the dragons
the mass of people pressed against the
horses at the. risk of broken bones.
ILclS llIIto VI pllSh NitNoiliS IiilCu Nlpi
tawdily dressed women, who banded
vulgar iests with one another, blocked
the side streets. The trees bent under
their heavy load of human fruit and lad,
ders had been put to such good use that
the people perchcd upon them We're
packed so as hardly able tomove. One
ladder gave way and a man dashed tc
the ground and was picked up with 6
fractured skull. The broken ladder was
soon Strengthened mp, however, and
people fought for places on the spin
tered steps.
II was now about four o'clock and ir
the dim light of the fading gas-lamps
and the gray dawn the tall houses OPP
posite La Rouquette cast funerea]
shadows across the gloomy square. The
Chaplain Moreau came ve,y early and
approached the guilotine for a moment
him and pressed around toply him will
questions. He was very agitated, be.
cause he had taken the deepest %interes
in Campi and at one time thought III
might be able to save him.
Unhappy Campi," said the priest
"If the newspapers had not given hin
so much notoriety that scaffold nigh
not be standing there now. Worse mel
than he have been pardoned."
THE DOOMED MAN
It is now broad daylight. The OK
raised to the cross-beam and fixed In it
place. People are surprised to Sc
Deibler, the %execntioner, leaning agalns
a tree zeal the prison door. When vii
he go in to wake his prisoner and maxi
the fatal %S'toilet of the guillotine," a
the cutting away of the shirt around tn
neck and the trimming of the hair be
hind is called. The Impotence of tn
mob wakes stronger and becomes man
fest inside the Gordon by a peculia
swaying motion of the crowd, Will
among the roughs outside cries ar
heard of "Campi!" "Campi!" and ribal,
songs that the police hurry from pom
to point to suppress.
Inside the prison Bauquesne, the gov
ernor; the chaplain, Moreau; Kuhn, til,
Chief of Police. and the clerk who is tt
read the sentence to the prisoner nav
taken tho p%recaution, before proceeding
to his cell, to have themselves accom-
panied by three or four turnkeys, a
they dread the recurrence OF ono Q
those violent fits of rage the prisoner i
subject to. The door OF the cell opens
Campi is sound asleep. :.
"Campi! Campii" The governor call
his name aloud twice before he hears ii
At last he awakens, sits on his cot an
rubs his eyes. "Your appeal has bee
dismissed and your application for a par
don refused" says the governor. "Now
my lad, be brave"
Camm turns deathly pale. After
minute or so he tries to collect hi
thoughts and goes down on his knee
on the bed. But a nervous spasm con
vulses his limbs his breathing become
labored, the sweat pours from his ghastl
face in streams. :.
Another minute Campi grinds hi
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