Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-29

g4ep behind the victim walked two Eak&, @sD
der men, aftired in long Prince Alners ooau
and with heavily weeiedr silk hats ltn
nnly twenty odd PAGES from the prision gata
20 the gusiotine. Only q few fustants wers
consumed in the passage. So rapid VASE
progress. urged onward by the silent mer
behind, that, had / taken my eyes OF that
xhastly. greenish hued face for an instant,
had not seen il again.
In front Of the guiilotine a board stood up
RICH. to a height OF five feet In the top Of
It was a lunette. AS Prado neared this board
a most dreadful series OF incidents followed
eacn other with the rapidity OF lightning.
The trembling able for this was his first
execution herel stepped apart Four burly
men. dressed in blouses of blue and white
striped ticking, who had not been seen
before, sprang forward, seiZsd the con-
denined mar, hurled him onward against
the upright boarl flung themselves upon
him. and by their weight, bore the strug-
Cling victim, face downwari !, to the top OF ths
low platform. That board worked on
swivel and ran on rollers. In an instant II
had been wheeled forward until the neck was
under the gistening knife, upon which tins
morning light had begun to CLEAN ~.
Deibler. who hal stood like man OF stone
at the right OF the gslillotine during all this
terrible scene now reached forward and fixed
a wooden collar over the back OF the prison.
er's neck Then we all heard sharp click
as the knife was sprung and-after an agon-
izing interval-the keen steel struck the neck
as il might have collided with rubber car
spring There was no hesitation In that
knife 1t went through and the head OF
Prado lay among the shavings beyond The
surgeon placed his hand on the trunk and
said: al est mort" An unnecessary act
The body was then rolled into the long black
box; its lid closed with a bang-and l ran
for the carriage that has just whirled me to
tho Bourse.
Prado died game
Prado's career of iufamy brands him as the
most remarkable criminal in the recent his
tory of France. His victim, Marie Aquet-
ant, was a young and beautiful woman OF
the fallen class. and was known as la Dame
aux Diamants,n from the splendor of a noted
necklace she wore in public.
1t was on the evening of JAN IA, 1885, that
y small unimportant looking man addressed
Marie in the corridor of the Eden theatvs
during n lull in the performance, and to-
gether they proceeded hastily to Marief
apartments in fashionable quarter of the
town. She was the mistress of prominent
man in club circles, NJ. Bles.
At Q o'clock in the morning the accepted
lover reached the apartments and found
Marie lying near the fireplace with her throat
cut The leather Tag in which she had kept
her treasures had been slit as dexterously as
had been the murdered woman's throat. No
trace could at first be found Of Marie's COM
panion.
Then began a detective hunt through Paris
and all the rest of France, but for a long
~~w.1
man was surprised while attempting to make
Off with a casket of jewels from a private
house He was pursued by a policeman.
Seeing himself overtaken. the man turned
and seat a pistol ball through the police
mans jaw The policeman did not give up
his hold The man was caught, and when
arraigned for trial he gave the name of
Prado.
About this time Eugene Forester, DENT
mondaine Of Paris and Mauricette Couron-
neau, a young married woman Of Bordeaux,
were arrested on the charge of receiving
stolen goods
The thief was Prado; Eugene was his mis-
tress, aad Mauricette was the woman whom
he had promised TO make his WIFE Eugene
finally consented to tell what she had learned
from Prado OF his origin and life. He was
born in Mexico, he said, and when youth
discovered some fearful secret about his birth.
HIS life had been crowded with adventure
Of every kind. He had Travelled in Hayti,
China, the United States and the Holy
Land, nursed when sick in Jerusalem by an
English lady of birth, who gave up her vows
as a sister OF charity to follow Prado to Italy.
When he had killed Marie he conflded his
secret to his mistress, Eugene Forester, with
whom he was then living. She promised "a
keep his secret, and they fed to Bordeaux.
He might have remained undiscovered had
he not been faithless to Eugene When sha
learned he was living with Mauricette,
Eugene told Mauricette of Prados crime.
Mauricette, girl of 20. who had become
mother, told her confeSsor. The priest in.
sisted that Eugene should make her state
ment public. At last she consented Pra6o
was arrested, and the mystery of Marie
Aquetant's murder was solved.
The trial was the talk of all Paris. A new
victim of the adventurer then appeared 1t
was his legal wife, Dolores Garces. of Mar
ella, with whom hs had at one time lived in
luxury in Madrid. She still retained her
affection for Prado The jewels of Marie
were all traced together with others he stole
in Spain, and distributed among his mis-
tresses.
When on trial he was insolent to both
Judge and witnesses, and absolutely laughed
at the avalanche of proof that fell upon him.
His Spanish wife was divorced, aud the
other women connected with the sensational
case have become notorious and had many
offers of marriage. Nothing was confessed
by Praio Of the mystery OF his birth. He
died as he had lived, cool, msrciless and UNI
concerned