Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-05
EXECUTION OF VALIANT.
The Paris Rabble Not Allowed as
Close 10 the GuiIlotine as Usual.


Auguste Valiant. the anarchist who threw
a bomb In the French chamber OF deputies
on December 8. was guiilotined at 7I0
O'Clock this morning at the Prison de 10
Roquette in Paris.
Naillant's last words as he was led IN ths
guillotine were: Death to the boureeoisef
Long live anarchy"
Just after midnight a messenger from the
prefecture OF police entered the Figaro Of
nee and told the group Of newspaper men
chatting there that the execution would
take place at daybreak
"hen the reporters started for the Plaza
oe la Roquette the sky was black with
out giimmer OF moonlight or starlight
Just after IL o'clock a fine rain hsd begun
TO fall, and It still filled the air. The boule.
@ We're almost empty at O'Clock as
MANY OF the masqueraders had gone home
ana others had entered cafes TO await there
'ne hour OF going to the Roquette prison.
FROM the knots of outcasts lettering n
mad carried the whispered news that V.ti-
iant would die at daybreak The message
had been hurried dow the Rue de la Ro-
gue..e. along the Boulevard voltaire to the
rue du rauoourg St Antoine and at every
corner had summoned groups of listeners
VINO had at once made ready to 20 to the
scene of the execution.
At 1 AS O'Clock 500 policemen enteres TIA
Place de la Roouette by two routes Thev
placed the barriers TO keep back the expect
ed mob. Several hundred persons had esth-
OF the city.
man Of half-starved features left the
crowd, stepped to the spot where the gull
ioune was to be erected, and after shaking
MS tattered sleeves at the crowd shouted
as he uncovered his head:
am more unlucky than he, pity me-"
rroups OF men and women came to the
square with Increasing frequency. At 2:4o
q NJ
guards. on foot, preceded by a drum corps
marched up the Rue de la Roquette to the
prison. They were followed by a company
or mounted guards and soon afterward nv
another battalion of Infantry All took
positions in the square
Republican guards continued to march In
70 me square until more than 1000 of them
mad been disposed between and around the
Two prisons. so as to cut of exit through the
Rue Merlin, the Rue de la Folie Re9nault
9n which is the barn containing the gull
qnette. leading to the cemetery OF Pere Ia
Chaise on the south the Rue de la Vac
querie. and the Rue Servan.
Al s;4o the crowd outside the prisons was
nor large. as many had gone away when
the guards were stationed SO as 10 h,ae an
view of the square.
walking about in the Enclosure were ahout
thirty journalists and various oeicials M
Servants bar and tobacco shop. where The
crowded. mn"
Many OF the customers were the news
paper men. who had reported many exc
cutions before. and seemed to be in the best
spirits Some OF them were cracking jokee
ana making numerous guesses at what tinA
OF reprisals the anarchists might resort to-
Inc tourbevoie murder was another subject
or gossip. and several men said that the
assassins. who had been arrested, were two
men ana a woman belonging to one OF the
hordes OF outcasts who infest Paris suburbs.
The time until the hour OF the execution
passed slowly, broken only by the arrival
OF the executioners and the erection OF the
guillotine Wv