Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-09-12

GaspaEd, who murdered the old maG De-
launay In the Rue d'Angouleme,e and Mar
chandons who cut the throat Of the creole /
LADY ,WhOseE service he had entered, aCCord- I
ing TO his custom, for the purpose Opium
d5r-Were gUillOtine6 shortly after day
break this morning, says Paris dispatch
Of the 10th inst. to the London Telegraph.
IL was expected that the WEetches would
be repr1eVed, as Gaspard had had an &C
complete, and MaFchand0nas friends had
made energetic efforts to save him from
the gulllOtine. Their appeals were, how
ever, rejected, and both the criminals
were handed over this morning to the
common executiOner, N. Grevy having
signed their sentences before his depart
are Tor the country on Saturday.
At o'clock this morning the Place de
la ROquette, outside the prison Of the
condemned, was full Of people, who, as is
customary on such OCCASIONS, had re-
NAMED up all night to witness what, in
the annals Of recent sensation was an
exceptional sight-namely, q double ex-
eCutiOn. The police had cOnsiderabledif-
hculty in keeping the crowd of sight
se6rs IN their places, and the mounted
gendarmes were frequently called into
reqUigitiOn to clear the approaches to the
place Of execution. The usual horseplay,
low jokes, and badinage we're freely in
~
roadway, composed as it was of the low
est strata of the Partisan rabble. SnatChes
Of obscene songs were even sung by some
Of the VillainOus gamins and vicious girls
who pressed through the crowd to obtain
a view Of q scene which seemed 70 have
no terrors for them. At o'clock a NOV
ing light was seen approaching. it pre-
coded 3 large dark mass scarcely discern
ible through the enVelOpinP darkness.
bOis de justice, or guillOtine, which had
once more been removed from its resting
place In the vicinity Of the prison. IL
was followed by Deibler and his assist
ants, and was well guarded by policemen
Turning the corner of the Rue FOlie Reg
nault, the CHASTITY caravan numbered heaV-
lily into the Place de la Roquette, and
stopped before the door Of the jail. The
guillOtine VAS promptly dismOuntsd, and
by2O'ClOCk everything was ready. Deib-
Ter, having superintendent the prepare
tory measures, went into the jail with
two Of his men, and there was a lCng
spell OF waiting and expectation, during
which the day daWned on the impatient
and chattering crowd that filled the
place de Ia Roquette. At 4 o'clock the
number were increased by WOrkmen
and others who were obliged to be up
early, and barbados were put up by the
police to prevent the people from filling
up the approaches to the place Of eXeCu-
ton. A long, narrow basket was now
placed near the block of the guillOtine,
and at ten minutes to the huge, heavy,
and gloomy doors Of the prison swung
open amid a deadly silence, only broken
By the sharp rafting Of the genda mes,
swords as they were drawn from their
scabbards. Gaspard was the first of the
felons led to death. Tall and mus sular,
he walked firmly between two priests
whose ministratiOns he had rejected un-
til the approch Of the end Of his
term of life. His face was pale
and his features contracted con-
vulsively as he neared the guillotine.
Here he stopped toward the prison chap
lain, the Able Faure, and embrased first
the priest and then a cFuCidx held by the
latter in his hand. He was now siezed
by the executiOners, his head was placed
in the lunette, and after an awkward
pause, during which Deibler seemed to
have lost mOmentary control of his leth-
al instrument, the knife decendeO, g Z
the headless trunk of the criminal Z j
away from basCute, The head was tt n
put in the basket.
The guillotine was now washed, and
everything set in order for the next exc
cutiOn After and interval Of seventeen
minutes, during which the clamOring
crowd seemed to have lost its grotesque
gayety, the doors of the prison again
opened, and MarChandOn, looking like a
pale boy of II, totered .feebly out, sup
ported by the Able Faure and the other
priest, who had assisted Gaspard. The
criminal was evidently more dead than
alive. He still wore the patent leather
boots with pointed toe-caps which he had
on when arrested in his country house at
COmDlepe After having convulsiVeiv
embraced the priests, he was caught
sharply by DeibIer and thrust into the
lunette. The knife again refused to
work, and nearly four seconds elapsed
before it fell on the criminals neck.
When it did so q double jet of blood
spurted out for nearly four yards and
6prinkled the adjacent ground. The
Bodies were then taken, escorted by
mounted gendaFmes, to the Ivry ceme-
terry for mock burial, after which they
were handed over to the school of medi-
cine for the usual experimental pur-
poses.