Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-04

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| The inaccurate statement in The rspo,
\ OF Dsv Louis conserving the method ~
| execution in England is due TO tn, f,ct
t0at the writer had heard OF the Hllifsv
| gibbet, a rough instrument resembling
the gulllotlne, which was ouiy used in one
part Of England and was not used afts,
! 1850. In Scotland there had been kirS
! Of guilntine called the Maiden Nv
which TIE Earl of Argyle was executed in
1855. Ii Is believed that Of the n,sn1
models available for the purpose Dr. Io6is
made use of one called the NJ najA. which
| he had seen at Milan and with which AN
execution had been carried out az late as
1907. A similar instrument had been use6
Ia the south of France at various times
But the parliament of Toulouse was par
ticnlarly fond of the wheel
Before the execution of Peiletier several
experiments were made on dead bodies
The assembly finally ordered that he
should die by the guillotine and his execn-
ton took place on April Is, 1892 The
machine worked we'll Ii was operated
by Samson, in whose family the Office Of
execuhoner In Paris bad been hereditary
for many years. The people were very
much horror struck by this execution
according to many accounts, although
some of them must have witnessed ths
brutalities inflicted on victims of the
wheel.
On July q, 1892, there was mishap
with the gulllotine. The wooden grooves
had got out of shape and the knife failed
| to fall promptly. Afterwards metal work
was substituted and from that time there
has never been any buDgling with the
guilotine. Its history is one of entire
and great success.
Within few months of Pelletiers ex-
ecution the guillotine began its work In
assisting the political move nents of tie
time. In August it was taken to the
Place du Carousal. in August the son Of
the executioner, lnson, fell Cff the scat
fold and was killed. Ga one occasion it
was removed tor one day TO the Place de
Greve for the execution Of some emigres.
and then back to the Place do la Rsvolu.
tlou for that of two robbers. The Place
de Greve was In tie centre of what is now
the Place de n Concorda. 1t was there
| that L uis XVI and Marie Autoine.te.
Nine. Elizabeth and Nine. Roland ana
other fam )us persons were put to death,
Ii is estimated by historians that between
Aug. 10, 1892, and the ninth "Hhermidor"
1894, 10000 persons were killed by the
invention of the ingenious Dr.. Louis.
The execution of Charlotte Corday for
! the assassination of Marat gave rise to an
interesting discussion. When the execu-
tioner held up her severed head he struck
it with his fist, and hundreds of persons
we're willing to swear to the fact that the
face blushed.
There is story to the effect that Dr..
Guillotin was put in prison for refusing to
make triple machine, but this is unCer-
tain. 1t does not appear that triple ma
chine was made. The single one worked
quickly enough to eut off the heads Of
tJrfy-tive persons within twenty minutes
Under the empires restoration the
guillotine continued its standing on the
! Place de Greve, and the sentence of death
was regularly carried out. During Louis
Philippe's reign the guilotine was trans
ferred to the Barriere st. Jacques and in
that Of Napoleon III. to the Place de la
Roquette, where 1t has remained to this
day.
Samson, the excutioner during the reign
Of terror, sold the original gullotine to
man named CIrtius for IS 600 aud ne sold
it. again to niece. That niece was Nine.
Tussaud, who kept the wax works show in
London The original guillotine IS in the
hands of her descendants, who carry on
the business.
The last execution on the guilltions was
that Of Lieut.. Anastay, for the murder Of
Baroness Della d, which took place on the
$ ID of last month, and at which there was
q very unpleasant sceae. The present ex-
ecutoner is M. Deibler, who is a good
Workman, but a much less interesting per
son than Samson, who belonged to an arts
tOcratic family, which had taken to ex ecu
ting on account of drink-N. Y. World.