Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-02


Stl &c Story of the Assassin.
PAR Dec. 28.-Prado, the murderer
of Ma Aguetant, was guillotined this
morni1 In the Place de La Roquette.
He pr rived firm demeanor to the
last. + efused to make confession
and ais declined the services of the
chaplain
Three q lrs ago, one of the most sue
cessful 6 4 Il ne demi-mondaines of Paris
was VIC ma named Marie Aguetant.
In her r, pom she kept a considerable
sum In IL le orm of bonds, Jewels and
ready NJ ney :. She was beautiful, clever
and anil tiot is. In public resorts her
face was fam liar. She was known as
"La Dam g A TX Diamants," from the
splendor tn h' sr diamond necklace. On
the evening I January Ia, 1885, Marie
was one of the crowd which filed the
promenoirI of the Eden Tbeater. A
man not know yn to the frequenters of
the place approached her, and
after few words they left the
theater togethe r. They went at once to
Marie's apart iments. At o'clock
Mares maid nocked at her mistress
door, but got no response. The door
was forced OPP en- and Marie Aguetant
was found lyI ng before the fireplace
dead, with her 1 throat cut The leather
bag in which s he had kept her treas
ures had beer 81 it as dexterously as had
been the muir g, red woman'E throat.
Some time ie er man was surprised
while attempt rs to make off with a
casket of jew iii from private house.
He was pursu' ! by policeman and
sent a pistol b | through the officers
| jaw. The poll "a man did not give up his
hold. The MAJ was caught and when
arraigned for tia / he gave the name of
Prado. About tt ne same time Eugene
Forester, denhi-mondaine of Paris,
and Mauricette tCouroneau a young
married woman of Bordeaux,
were arrested on the charge OF
receiving stolen goods. The thief was
Prado Eugenie finally consented to
tell what she hAd learned from Prado of
his origin and life; He was born in
/ covered some fesrfu, secret about his
birth. He becsaEH wanderer over the
earth and in time made his way to Mo-
zambique, to China, to Hayti and to
| New York. Mary strange stories, inn
possible of verif cation, be told about
himself. An English woman of noble
birth, sister of religious order,
WOu0OGu
! soldier in Spanish hospital. They fed
to Jerusalem, where she gave up her
vows and married the adventurer She
died in Italy soon afterward and he re-
turned to his life Of adventure.
On the morning of January Is, 1886.
Prado came to Eugene in state Of
great excitement She saw him burn
his shirt and boots.-He told her ne
had killed Mar, sJ5Aguetant The trial
was the talk of a Paris. Within an
hour and a half the jury returned YER
dict of guilty without any extenuatlng
circumstances.
The death was witnessed by 200
artists, newspaper men, actors, lawyers
and politicians. Pfado died with much
the same bravado as Branzini, his form
er chum and counterpart. In fifty
seconds from his appearance at the
prison gate his bleeding head lay in the
basket.
Prado in walking from the prison to
the guillotine showed no signs of fear.
His arms were tightly pinioned behind
his back, SO tightly indeed that his head
was drawn far beyond perpendicularity
In front of the guillotne board stood
upright to height Of five feet. In the
top of it was a lunette. AS Prado neared
this board the trembling Able stepped
apart. Four burly men dressed ],
trousers of blue and white striped tick
ing who had not been seen before,
sprang forward, seized tie condemned
man, hurled him onward against
the upright board, flung them
selves upon him. and by their
weight. bore the struggling victim, face
downward, to the top of the low plat
form. That board worked on a swivel
and ran on rollers. In an instant 1t had
been wheeled forward until the neck
was under the glistening knife, upon
which the morning light had begun to
CLEAN. M. Deibler who had stood like
man of stone at the right of the gull
lotine during all this terrible scene, now
reached forward and fixed wooden
collar over the back of the prisoners
neck. Then the knife was sprung, and
the keen steel struck the neck as it
might have collided with rubber car
spring. 1t went through and the head
of Prado lay among the shavings be-
yond. The surgeon placed his hand on
the trunk and said: I'll est mort!''