Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-05
| NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. VAILLANF'S HEAD DROPS The Paris Anarchist Exe-
 cuted at Daybreak. FOUR BROTHERS COMMIT MURDER, They Shot and Killed the
 Cashier of a Bank.
TERRIBLE WORK OF A HURRICANE
Caused a Reign of Terror
 On Board a Steamer.
EXECUTION OF VALIANT,

| He Died by the Guillotine at Day Break This Morninz-Hundreds of People Gather bout the Scene-Ex- tra Precautions Taken by the Police to Prevent DisOrder-The Drop Fell Shortly After Seven O'clock. PARIS, Feb. 5-Persons living near the Prison de Ia Rouquette watched eagerly all day yesterday for signs of the approach ing execution of Augueste Valiant, the anarchist, who threw a bomb in the cham Der of deputies on December 9 At o'clock yesterday afternoon M. Lsboissy, the lawyer who defended Valiant at his trial, visited the condemned man In h,s cell. He left soon, but returned at seven. The persons on watch near the prison in- tsrpreted these visits as meaning that the exe cution would take place this morning
 At9 p. m. mounted messenger from the ministry of justice delivered a sealed packet to Chief Warden B1uu, of the Rou- quette prison. In the next hour and a half few persons gathered in the Place da Ia Rouquette, Policemen stood in groups of three at conspicuous points. The crowds were still fl in other parts of the city en- toying the foretaste of the carnival which was being heralded by men and women on the boulevards.
 Just after midnight 8 messenger from the prefecture of police entered the Figaro office and told the newspaper men there that the execution would take place at day break. A fine rain was then falling. The boulevards were almost empty at o'clock, as many of the masqueraders had gone home and others had entsred the cafes to await there the hour for going to the Ro- quette prison.
 From the knots of outcasts lettering in the streets near the prison men and women had carried the whispered news that Vail ant would die ct daybresk. The message had been hurried down the Rus de Ia Rou- quette, along the Boulevard Voltaire to the Rue du Fauborg St. Antoine, and at every corner had summoned groups of listeners, who had at once made ready to go to the scene of the execution.
 At :45 o'clock 800 policemen entered the Palace da Ia Rouquette by two routes. They placed the barriers to keep back the expected mob. Several hundred persons had gathered, most of them from the low est quarters of the city. A man who ap- stepped to the spot where the guillotine was to be erected, and, after shaking his tattered sleeves at the crowd, shouted, ss he uncovered his head:
 sI am more unlucky than be. Pity mel"
 Groups of men and women came to the square with increasing frequency. At 2:40 o'clock two bsttalions of the Republican Guards on foot, preceded by drum corps, prison. They were followed by a company of mounted guards and soon afterward by another battalion of infantry. All took positions in the square.
 Republican guards continued to march in- to the square until more than ,000 of them had been disposed between and around the two prisons go as to cut off exit through the Rue Merlin, the Rue de Ia Folie Reg nault Gin which is the barn containing the guillotin-l, the Rue Gerbier, the Rne de la Rouquette, leading to the cemetery of Pere la Chsise on the south, the Rus de Ia Vac qusrie and the Rue Servsn.
 At 3:45 the crowd outside the prisons was not large. as many had gone away Wucu tuo RuAIu6 WcIb etoLlOuCo EO 6e tO hide all view of the square.
 M. Deibler, the executioner, appeared in frock coat and tall hat at 3:20 He was on foot. A few minutes later two vsns rumbled into the tquare. They brought the guiliotine and with it Deibler's son, son in-law and two other assistsnts. M. Deibler, by the light of 8 lantern, examined the knife and ropes ss they were brought ont. The const1uc- tion of the guillotine proceeded rapidly and quietly. The onlookers talked in whispers. The lamps were still lighted at o'clock, but the ihky blackness of the night had begun to fade.
 Just ss the second part of the guilotine was erected Chaplain Valadler arrived. M. Lepine, pretect of police, was at hand to | see that all precautions against anarchist plots were taken. After noting that the troops and police were properly placed hs went away. M. Guillot, chief of the mu | nicipsl police, was a conspicuous figure among the guards. Deibler superintended | carefully the erection of the guillotine. The streets were still lighted at o'clock and the windows in the house facing the square were filled with spectators. The
 troops became tired of waiting and every
 body was wet and uncomfortable. l M Geron, chief of dete ctives, arri we'd
 shortly before o'clock. The rain stop ! ped at 5:30 and the air cleared sufficiently
 to reveal plainly the outlines oi
 the guillotine just opposite tn.
 arched doorway of the prison arc
 about twenty fl i've feet from the wall. Th'
 rows of leafless trees in the square begsr
 to show clearly through the gloom. Ever,
 quarter of the passing hour Is struck b.
 the chimes of the House of Detention fo
 children. As the chimes rang out si;
 these words ran through the crowd o | watchers:
 "Vaillsnt has only one hour to hveI" | VaiIlsnk waa axacufad af 1.10 q m