The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-11
.ANASTAY EXECUTED.
The Murderer Of Baroness Dellard
Pays the Penalty.
NET DEATH By THE eUILLorIEE.
Il am at Your service. Gentlemen. :
Responded the Prisoner whom In
formed that His Hour Had Come.
The Condemned Man Had sehooIed
His Courage Tor tho Ordeal

formed That His Hour Had Come.
The Condemned Man Had sehooIed
His Courage for the Ordeal
PARIS, April H. Lieutenant Aaastay,
the murderer Of Baroness Dellard, paid
the penalty Of his crime by death on the
guillotine. The interest surrounding
the murder was greater than usual in
such cases because Of the social position
Of the murderer and his victim.
The gnillotine was erected in the
usual place, directly in front Of the Jail.
Knowledge OF the tragedy that would
be enacted there had reached the gem
eral public through the erection Of the
guillotine, and the usual crowd Of sight
seers, composed mostly OF the lowest
dregs of the city, were present to wit.
ness the fate Of the condemned.
.rhe Final Moment Has Come
The condemned man, who knew not
| the hour OF his doom, was informed in
the usual manner. First came the war
dens Of the prison, then the director,
executioner, judges and eight witnesses.
Arriving in from Of the cell the cour.
| tiers halted. The directors entered.
Anastay was awake,
| Take courage, Anastay,' said the
director; the president has not consid.
cred favorably the petition TOR clemency.
The final moment has come"
II am at your service, gentlemen,
murmured Anastay, whose face was
4 absolutely ivld. 1he warders handed
4 him his stockings and helped him TO put
on the trousers which he wore when AR
rested. Then he remained alone few
moments with the chaplain. Then the
march 70 death began.
Einni Preparations.
Executinner Deibler's assistants bound
Anastay with long cords, compelling
4 the condemned man to march slowly.
| Then they roughly thrust his elbows be-
hind his back ana bound them together,
| the cords crossing the shoulders ana
meeting at tine wrists, the result being
| that tine prisoners chest was pushed
| forward winnie ms shoulders were de-
pressed. Anastay, who had his head
bent, raised it suddenly just then, and i
! big tear rolled down his cheek.
Deibler then arranged the shirt at the
neck 50 that it would not interfere with
the knife, and Anastay trembied as q
| piece OF linen falls 20 the ground, leav-
ing the neck entirely exposed.
| Che March 20 Death.
The great door Of the prison opens,
| the gendarmes draw their swords, and
as the procession comes in view all the
spectators remove their hats. The dis
lance from the door to the scaffold is
only about ten yards, but it seems to
take fully ten minutes TO travel that
| distance.
At the head Of the procession comes
Deibler, who seems to be more agitated
than is his wont, and then surrounded
and supported by the executioner's
assistants comes the condemned man,
who is pitiable object, with his livid
face, his snorn head and smooth chin
and lips. He has d loose coat over his
shoulders, and lnanifestly he is doing his
| best to keep up his courage.
He pauses for the millionth fraction
| Of a second, almost smiles, but then he
lowers his eyes at the sight Of the knife,
when CLEANS brightly IN the full day
| light.
Az the Fatal Platform.
At last the platform is reached and an
assistant at once roughly removes the
loose coat.
\ Then Able Valadin embraces the con-
demned man twice, and as he loosens
his hold Anastay is pushed upon the
plank, the lunette drops with dull
thud and the knife falls with sound
like that of i dictionary falling upon a
floor.
Lots of blood spurts out, staining the
guillotine. Taking the vessel In which
the head has fallen one of the assistants
proceeds to place the body in closed
basket, which is then placed In wagon.