The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-08-08

NA\ y I'M police, and the par
IN AM I 81 apet along the river
IMENEW Saone was crowded
c.s. MEGoNYMo. with sight-seers,
many of whom had obtained seats and
standing room early in the night and
had kept the places throughout in the
hope of getting glimpse of the assas-
sin. At S:45 the doors were opened and
the jurymen, witnesses, members OF
the press and Others quickly filled the
small room to overfowing. AS the
judges took their seats upon the bench
Cesario was placed in the prisoners
dock. AS the assassin made his ap-
pearance between two gendarmes he
was the cynosure of all eyes. He is a
mild faced, commonplace youth. His
complexion is fair and there is faint
suspicion of down upon his upper lip.
Altogether his appearance is effem-
mate.
Throughout his examination the
prisoner defended himself against ac-
cusations of connections with anarch-
lists with rare skill, fighting the ground
inch by inch. There was profound
sensation in the court room when AS
sistant Registrar Methuir removed the
covering from dagger and handed it
to the Judge.
The weapon was still stained with
the blood of the murdered president,
and when the magistrate held it up a
thrill of horror ran through the assem-
blage.
SIS this the one you brought from
Cette?" asked the judge,
'Yes, replied Cesario, unfinchingly,
as he nodded toward the still bloody
dagger.
Through the interpreter Cesario
minutely detailed his journey from
Cette to Lyons, the jury following him
attentively as he related his peregrina-
tions until he arrived outside the Credit
Lyonnais. Here the prisoner, with
brutal GOODNESS, described his later
movements as follows; when saw
M. Carnot's carriage arriving l un-
sheathed my dagger. l ran forward
and planted the dagger, turned and
withdrew, when was struck down.
M. Carnot looked me straight in the
eyes,"
Judge-''Did you not have some sem
sation of the enormity of your act
when you saw the eyes of your victim
fixed upon you? Has not remorseful
memory troubled you since?'
Cesario-"No; have felt nothing
whatever"
The court then adjourned.
LYONS, Aug. 4.-The second day of
the trial of the assassin Santo Cesario
opened with the testimony of the SOL
dier Leblanc, who, while under arrest
for desertion, was confined in the hos
pital at Cette at the same time that
Cesario was patient in that institu-
tion. Leblanc related the purport of
his chats with Cesario while in the hos
pital and persisted in his previous state
ment that Cesario had declared that the
anarchists would next kill president
or u king, and also in his statement
that Cesario had said that the lots had
been drawn and that he had in this
way been assigned to go to Lyons and
kill NJ. Carnot.
Cesario denied that he had said these
things to Leblanc, though he admitted
that he had preached anarchist doc
trines to him. Concerning the drawing
of lots Cesario said that anarchists re-
tanned absolute individual liberty of
action, and would not execute deeds
merely because they happened to have
been selected by hazard or for any
other particular reason than that of
their own will.
Attorney General Folchier then ad-
dressed the jury, reviewing at length
all the details of the trial and declared
that the inf1iction upon the assassin of
the extreme penalty of the law was i'm
perative. M. Debruil, counsel for the
defense, followed and made an appeal
for the prisoner, on the ground that he
was an irresponsible tool in the hands
of others.
At about noon the jury retired, and
after an absence of quarter of an
hour returned and announced verdict
of guilty without extenuating circum-
stances. The presiding judge, M.
Breuillac, then pronounced the SEN
tence Of death by the guillotine.
When the death sentence was uttered
Cesario exclaimed: "Vive la Revolu-
ton Sociale."
The prisoner was Immediately seized
by the gendarmes and hurried toward
his cell beneath the court house. AS
ne left the court room Cesario cried.
"Vive rAnarchiel" In spite Of the
prisoners defiant attitude his habitual
smile disappeared from his face when
the sentence of death was pronounced.
M. Dubreuil, the prisoners counsel,
gave notice of apneal