The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-09
WAS tiUIIIL0TINED.
AUGUSTA VALIANT EXECUTED FOR
BOMB-THROWlNG.

The Knife Fell at s:1O-Ali Paris INTENSE
Iy Excited--Cafes aud wineshops Crowd
ed with the Lowest Glass OF Citizens.
The Execution Determined Upon SUN
day-vaillant's Crime.
PARIS, Feb. 5.-Vaillant was executed
this morning at7:10.
His last words were: "Death TO So
ciety; long live anarchy There were
no incidents of an exciting nature other
than this.
The execution OF Valiant was de-
termined upon Sunday.
The news was only known late in the
evening.
The people began gathering soon
afterwards and the crowd kept in
creasing rapidly in size until o'clock
this morning when fine rain com
menced to fall.
Workmen then started in to erect
barricades across all the streets leading
into the square, from which the people
were driven by the police at 200 q. IN.
At that hour the Gardes Republicaine
arrived on the scene.
The cafes and wineshops were all
crowded with the lowest class of citi-
zens who loudly commented upon the
injustice of sending Valiant to the
guillotine as he had killed nobody.
Four companies of the Gardes Repub-
Gcaine and squadron of mounted
gardes formed around the square.
Meanwhile the crowd continued to
increase and signs of approaching
I'm ht1I avpn fo
An ugly rush of men and women up
the Rue de la Roquette took place at
a. M, but was stopped by the police.
The Crime.
The bomb throwing in the chamber
of deputies took place on Dec. s., at
4:30 p. IN. M. Mirmain, socialist.
whose election had just been disputed,
had Just descended from the tribune
after speech in favor of his claims
and M. Dupuy. the speaker, had just
uttered the words, 81 am about to call
for vote upon the conclusions on the
sixth electoral committee when the
explosion occurred.
Instantly the chamber was filed w.t.
smoke Heartrending cries We're heard
from all sides and Able Lemier, one of
the deputies, fell from his bench, hit by
one the pieces of the bomb. If the
dynamite had struck the floor before
exploding a number of people would
undoubtedly have been killed, but %
woman sitting beside valiant in the
public gallery jostled his arm as he was
in the act of throwing the bomb and
this caused it to strike on the border of
the gallery instead Of on the floor of the
chamber. AS result the persons in
jured were mostly spectators in the
galleries and nearly all the deputies
escaped injury,
AT nrsJ Vi:ifianJ. VINO was among
those seriously wounded, was not sus-
pected as the criminal. He had gained
admittance into the public gallery and
was one of the first to attempt to es-
cape from the chamber. He had been
wounded in the nose and right leg.
Hatless and bleeding profusely from
his wounds he smashed with his cane a
window panel of one of the doors in
by soldier, who leveled his bayonet at
him. Valiant then went into the re-
freshment room. where his wounds
were bandaged by DR.. Merlon. one of
the deputies.
Valiant then walked around the
building until one of the stenographers
of the chamber, M. Paulida, called the
attention of the commissary of police to
his demeanor. Questioned by the com
missary valiant said that he was NJ.
Marechal, living in Choissy-le- Roi and
that he was anxious to get home. He
was taken TO the depot of the prefecture
of police, while detectives were sent to
his home. He found that his right
name was Valiant. The criminal WAS
then transferred at 2 a. IN. to the hos
pital Hotel Dieu. where shortly after
wards he voluntarily acknowledged his
crime.