, 1891-02-04
EYRAUD EXECUTED.
The Murderer of GOuffe Dies
on the Guillotine.
Breaks Away from the Officers
and Makes a Speech.
Wild Scenes in the Cafes Dur
ing the Night.

PARIS, Feb. 3.-As early as 2 O'Clock
this morning customers barriers were
erected upon the Place La Rouquette.
Shortly afterwards two divisions OF police
aud a detachment OF the garde re-
purlicainc took possession of the place.
The night was most bitter cold To make
the scene more gloomy than usual, a
heavy. damp, cold fog hung over the city.
The cafes near the Place La Rouquette
were full Of male and female,
singing in maudlin tones a disgu ting
song having for ITS refrain: 1T is Eyraud
whom we must have" 1T is his head
which we must have" The scenes in
SOM Of the cafes can be better Imagined
than described, but they Esve a stranger
a good ida of the nature of a Paris mob
when blood is in the air."
By 5:45 all was ready. Deib,er, the
executioner. tested the knife and found 1t
was moving easily in the grooves. Out
side the place in the direction OF the
Boulevard Yoltaire, there we're about 500
spectators who could hardly see anything
OF the proceedings. but who were attracted
TO the spot and remained there out of
sheer morbid curiosity. 10 the main, the
GROVE particularly referred to was com
posed of those scoundrels who prey upon
fallen women, convicts, gambling club
croupiers of the lowest class and girls who
form the dregs of socieCy.
At GAS a. IN a party of officials in
company with the governor of La Rou-
guette, entered the. cell occupied by
Eyraud. They found Eyraud sitting
crouching or his bed. and when informed
that his petition for pardon had been re-
iected Eyraud replied, very well The
condemned man q few minutes atterward
removed the prison uniform which he had
been wearing and changed his trousers
aud socks, refusing all assistance while
preparing for death. Being asked IT he
had any statement To make. the murderer
replied in the negative.
Abbe Faure then approached the guilty
man and offered to receive and convey to
Eyrauds wife and daughter any message
which he might wish taken to them To
this kind offer Eyraud replied: Tell
them that | bid them adieu and hope
they may he happy"
Able Faure then offered Eyraud a
glass of cOgnac. but he pushed it to one
side, saving, No. 1t will do me no good"
Eyraud then walked with the chief war
den and jsilur ibti the dressing room.
lie looked atientively at the gentlemen
present and did not utter a word. He
then sat down while Diebler pinioned him,
and during this preparation for the
guillotine Eyraud turned to the governor
and said; Might | request that my
body should not he given TO the sur
geoDs?' To this request Able Baure re-
piled: Your body will he given to your
family Elraud thanked the able,
whcreuron the hitter offered to embrace
the Durderer's wife and chllI for him.
Eyraud, gazing at the faces around him,
then angrily exclaimed: "Coustans. min
lister OF the interior, was right. He has
won his case, o his prize. He will be
tonight with Gabrille. What a grand
parsonage is going TO decorate Gabrille
Bompard."
Suddenly. as Dclbler was completing
the task of piuiOniug him, Eyraud con-
tinued, You are hurting my finger" and,
turning to the assistant who was tying
the bandaEes, he said im%patiently, don't
pinch me so tightly " Previous tn com
mencing The uarrhr TO the scaffuld Eyraud
again refused to drink a glass of cognac
which was offered to him. and was .fter-
wards rigidly silent until he arrived at the
guillotine.
Passing from the cell to the scaffold.
Evraud scanned everything, right and
left, and then fixed his eyes upon the
guillotine. Arriving at the foot Of the
%guillotine, and within a few feet of the
block, Eyraud eluded his executioners for
a homer and loudly and angrily shouted
to the assembled crowd: 'Constans is a
murderer; he Is more of a murderer than
| am. Constaus is" Before he could
complete the sentence the executioners
seized the murderer and threw him upon
the inclined plank OF the guIIlotine.
Delb.er pressed the IA al knob and the
flashing blade fell with a sharp, sliding
sound and the head of Gouffe's assassin
rolled int the basket below.
Eyrauds body was then lifted into a
wagon and driven off at full gallop 70 the
cemetery, escorted 5v a detachment of
gendarnes. Able Faure followed the
body in a cab, and after reading the burial
service over the remains at the cemetery,
they were turned over to the dead mans
relatives.
Immediately after the execution the
mob made n wild rush towards the Rrlllo-
tine, and were with difficulty repulsed BY
a strong force of mounted guardes repnb-
~lclnes, which had been lett in charge of
that instrument OF execution.