The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-03

la Roquette. He presented firm de-
meanor to the last. He refused to make
confession, and also declined the serv-
ices of the chaplain.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
New YORK, December 28.-AWorld ex
ira gives the following details of the exc
cution of Prado: The death was witnessed
by 200 artists, newspaper men, actors,
lawyers, and politicians who possessed in
fluence sufficient to obtain admission
within the sentry lines to the Place de la
Roquette. He died with much the same
bravado as did Pralzine, his former chum
and counterpart. The scene was much
more orderly and not the slightest mis-
hap occurred in the work of M. De Ibler.
In fifty seconds from the appearance at the
prison gate his bleeding head lay in the
basket. In front of the gates of the
prison, where the execution took place,
we're foond group of men, among whom
were seen several of the most distin-
guished men in France. Near the line of
trees on the upper side Of the path stood
Manuel Sully, of the Comedie Francaise;
near him Armand Silvestre and Henri
Roohefort, and Alphonse Doudet was said
to be present.
Prado in walking from the pris IN to the
guillotine showed 20 signs of fear. His
arms were tightly pinioned behind his
back, so tightly indeed that his head was
drawn far eyond the perpendicular. His
heavy locks seen to such snadvantage in
the court. room, when he confronted and
shook them at M. GuiIlot, judge de'in
struction, were gone. His apparel seem
ingly consisted of heavy wooden under
shirt aud dark trousers. The shirt had
been roughly cut away from about the
neck and shoulders.
In front of the guillotine board stood
upright to the height of five feet. In the
top of it was lunette. AS PradO neared
this board most dreadful series of incl
dents followed each other with the apidity
of lightning. The trembling abbe stepped
apart. Four buriy men dressed in
blouses of blue and white striped ticking,
who had not been seen before, sprang for
ward, seized the condemned man started
him onward against the upright board
aud flung themselves upOn him, and, by
} their weight, bore the struggling victim,
face downward, to the top of the low
platform. That board worked On a
swivel and ran on rollers In an instant
it had been wheeled forward until his neck
was under the glittering knife, upon which
the morning light had begun to CLEAN.
M. De Ibler, who had stood like a man
of stoGe at the right of the guillotine
during all this terrible scene, now reached
forward and fixed wooden collar over
the back of the prisoners neck. Then the
knife was sprung aud the keen steel struck
the neck as it might have collided with a
rubber car spring. 1t went through, and
the head of Pradb lay among the shavings
beyond. The surgeon placed his hand on
the trunk and said: "Il est morte." (He
is dead.)
An immense crowd collected outside
the prison last night and remained until
Prado had been executed. The rabbls
spent the time singing comic songs and
amusing themselves in other boisterous
this morning. He protested his innocence
to the last and declared against the in
justice of this world. He refused to dis
close his real name. When the jailers
came to pinion his limbs he offered no
resistance, and while they we're engaged
in this operation he shed one tear. The
sight of the guillotine appeared to hypro-
tize him.
| knr,1 . 1,n1a Lrina na,y kNIl
is as follows: His victim, Marie Aq uetant,
was dashing demi of Paris, sup
ported by an indulgent lover. On the
evening of January IA, 1886, she made the
acqu uaintanoe of Prado at the Eden theater.
They left the place and repaired to her
apartments. While there the man did his
best to conceal his identity from Maries
maid. At 2 O'Clock in the morning M.
Bles, Marie's former lover, called, and was
furious at the information that strange
man was in Marie's room. He
burst the door in and discovered
Marie lying before the fireplace dead with
her throat cut, her. diamonds and jewelry
gone and the stranger had. disap peared.
Search was made for the murderer but
without success. Some time later Prsdo
was arrested while trying to rob jewelry
store. de shot policeman IN the Jaw,
who later succeeded in getting him TO the
lookup. After his capture Eugene For
esther, a demi monde, and Msuressette
Conneaux, young married woman of
Bordeaux, we're arrested on a charge of
receiving stolen goods which had been
given them by Pardo. 1t then developed
that Eugeuie was his mistress and Mau-
ressette his fancee.
The latter's statement in court
was strange romance of love
and crime. Pardo had confessed
: to Eugenie the murder of Marie, and she
in turn told Nine. Mauressette,w who was pre-
vailed upon by priest, to whom she con-
fessed, to make her statement public.
His trial and conviction soon followed.
The case has raised Eugenie Forestener to
the pinnacle of success in the world in
which she lives. Mauressette Oonneaux,
though she is mother of Prado's illegiti