The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-23
UTMOST BRAVADO.
Execution Of Jose Salvador Francb,
the Infamous Spanish
Anarchist.
The BRUTE DIED CUHSING
His Wife and Child, and Shouting
'Vive PAnarchie," "DOwn
With Religion"

BARCELONA, Nov. 2l.--Jose Salvador
Franch, anarchist, who threw a dyna-
mite bomb in the Lyceum theater in
this city Nov. 7, 1893, was executed this
morning. Franch was undoubtedly one
of the most dangerous anarchists of re-
cent years. This became generally
known at the time of his arrest for con-
spracy in the Barcelona outrage, by
which over 90 people we're killed and
about 30 were seriously injured. Franch
was about 80 years of age, a native of
Castelsaras, province of Ternal. He
came OF respectable family. At the
age Of IA he left home and came to Bar
celona, where he speedily became a
leader among the anarchists. Twice
after his capture he attempted suicide
Franch displayed the utmost bravado,
shouting, Down with religionw and
died almost with the words of an anar-
chist song on his lips. The wife and
daughter Of the condemned man were
admitted to see him in the chapel, but
their tenderness and sympathy were ut
terly thrown away upon the anarchist
He scoffed at the supplications of the
priests to prepare himself for death, and
laughed derisively at references to fu-
ture life. The anarchists wife made a
last effort to soften his heart, but he
roughly told her to go away, and she
tearfully Withdrew after kissing
him. After his wife left the
chapel Franch continued to treat
the priest with contempt, saying among
things, 81 fooled you nicely Hypocrisy
is now the weapon which l have shown
Anarchists how to use." At s a. m. the
judge and other officers entered the
chapel and told Franch TO prepare for
death. The executioners as they dressed
the prisoner for the scaffold, were con-
tinually insulted by the desperate man.
Franch shouted, "Do your miserable
work; you are only the tools of the bour-
geoise." Franch was surrounded by SOL
diers and accompanied by members of
the society known as brothers of the
Good DEATH Franch walked trembling
to the scaffold, which was erected in the
large courtyard of the prison. Troops
were present to keep spectators at a
proper distance from the scaffold. AS
the anarchist mounted the steps leading
to the platform, upon which was the
CARROT. he shouted, Down with all reli-
gion," "Vive rAnarchie." The execu-
TONERS then seized him, aud as he strug-
gled and cried, they forced him into the
chair, at the back of which was the
CARROT. Franch was strapped down to
the seat, and as this work was being
performed, he renewed his anarchist
cries and tried to sing an anarchist
hymn, but he stopped in the midst Of his
death song to implore his executioners
to hurry their final preparations. The
trembling prisoners neck was encircled
by the fatal collar, the screw was swiftly
applied and death was almost instantan-
eous. Only minute and half elapsed
from the time Franch mounted the plat
form until he WIS pronounced dead.
The military band then played and the
executioners moved away from the plat
form. The body Of Frsnch, however.
with the collar of the CARROT around his
neck, will remain exposed until sundown.
1t was viewed by large crowds. At Sun
down the Society Of Brothers of the
Good Death will take possession of the
body and convey it to the cemetery.