Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-04
EYRAUD GUILLOTINED.

FOrewarned Contrary to the Rules His Stubborn Refusal of Religious Consolation.
 PARIS, Feb, 3.-Michael Eyraud, the murderer of Notary Toussaint Gouffe of Paris, was guillotined at 7:2O o'clock this morning. The crime for which he suf- fered death consisted in his having in Paris in July, 1889, and with the assist ance of his mistress, Gabrielle Bompard. strangled to death the notary.
 After the commission of the crime the body of the victim was conveyed in a trunk to Millery, in the department of the Rhone, and deposited in thicket, where, on August 13, 1889, it was discov- cred in state of decomposition. In Jan uary of the following year, Gabrielle Bom- pard made the confession to the Parisian police which led to her arrest and i'm prisonment, and finally, after most ex- citing chase, to the capture in Havana of the strangler, Eyraud, who was brought back to Paris for trial, which resulted in his conviction and death, and twenty years imprisonment at hard labor of his mistress
 There were but few witnesses of the exc cution, owing to the fact that it was not generally known until too late for yester- days evening papers to announce that the famous criminal was to meet death to-day When the governor of the prison, La Ro- quette, and the prison chaplain, L'Abbe Faure. were ushered into Eyraud's cell, @ short time previous to the hour fixed for the condemned mans execution, they found that he was already up and dressed, evidently forewarned, contrary to the rules, by some prison official Eyrand de- dered him by one of the wardens, and in spite of the earnest solici- tations of L'Abbe Faure, the murderer positively, even angrily, refused to listen to the priests prayers, to pray himself or to have any religious rites performed in his behalf When pinioned and upon the point of being overturned upon the bascull Of the guillotine, upon the plank which was to glide with him be- meath the fatal suspended knife. Eyraud, with movement as if of angry contempt or sullen resentment, refused to return the | last kiss bestowed upon him by L'Abbe Faure, as customary in the case of crimi- nals upon the point of being executed. The action of the guillotine was instan | taneous. There was flash and all was | over. Eyraud's head had fallen into the l sawdust filled receptacle which awaited it I Shortly before 6 a. m. Goron, the chiet of detectives, commissiaire de police, thu chief of the municipal police and dele | gate from the office of the Procureur d, La Republique and the recorder entered the prison gates, and at 6:45 Q. m. thi party of officials, in company with tn governor of La Roquette, entered the eel occupied by Eyraud. They found Eyraut sitting on his bed, and when informed tha his petition for pardon had been rejected Eyraud replied, "Very welln The con demned man a few minutes afterward re moved the prison uniform which he had beel wearing, changed his trousers and socks refusing all assistance while preparing fo death. The representative of the Procul eur de La Republique asked Eyraud if h had any statement to make before bein
 escorted on his way to the guillotine, bu
 the prisoner replied in the negative. L'Abh
 Faure offered to receive and convey t
 Eyraud's wife and daughter any me ssag
 which he might wish taken to them. T
 this offer Eyraud replied: ''Tell them ths
 I bid them adieu and hope they may |
 happy"
 glass of cognac, but he pushed it onesid
 saying: "No, sir, that will do me Il
 
 chief warden into the dressing room. +
 rat down while Diebler, the executione
 pinioned him, and during this part of u
 preparation for the guillotine Eyrau
 turned to the governor and said: "Migl
 I request that my body should not
 given to the surgeons'" To this reque L'Abbe Faure replied: "Your body will
 given to your family" Eyraud thanke
 the L'Abbe, whereupon the latter offert ] to embrace the prisoners wife and chi l for him, replied angrily: "Constans, u minister of the interior, was right: I has won his case, now his prize. He W be tonight with Gabrielle. What gra, parsonage is going to decorate Gabriel BompardP'
 Passing from his cell to the scaffo Eyraud scanned everything right and lei and when he arrived at the guilotine
 loudly and angrily shouted to the { | sembled crowd "Constans is a murdert
 he is more of murderer than am. Go ~ stans-before he could complete the SC
 tence the executioners seized the murder' | threw him upon the inclined plank of
 guilotine, Driebler pressed the fatal kn
 and the flashing blade suspended o1
 Eyraud's neck fell with a sharp, slidi n sound and all was over.
 Eyraud's body was then lifted into ' wagon and was driven off at full gallop
 the cemetery, where it was handed over .o the deads mans relatives.