New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-05

lWaN. Dut returned al o Cicch INC pt'S'I''
On watch near the prison interpreted these visits
as meaning that the execution would take place
this morning NJ. Labcri was supposed to have
gone to Valiant with the information that Pres
:dent Carnot had declined 20 grant the replieve
which the lawyer had requested orally.
About 9 o'clock a mounted messenger from the
Ministry Of Justice delivered a sealed packet to
Chief Warden Brun. Of the Roquette prison
In the next hour and half few persons gath
cred in the Place de la Roquette. Policemen stood
in groups Of threes at conspicuous points. as
they have stood every evening for a week. The
crowds were still in other parts Of the city, en-
joying the foretaste Of the carnival
When the reporters started from the Figaro
Office for the Place de la Roquette the sky was
black, without glmmer of moonlight or star
light Just after II o'clock fine rain had begun
TO fall and it still filled the air. The boulevards
were almost empty at o'clock. as many OF the
masoueraders had gone home and others had
entered cafes to await there the hour for going
to the Roquette prison. From the knots OF out
casts lettering in the streets near the prison men
and women had carried the whispered news that
valiant would die at daybreak. The message
had been hurried down the Rue de la Roquette,
along the Boulevard VOare TO the Rue du
Faubourg St. Antoine, and at every corner had
summoned groups Of listeners. who had at once
At 1:45 o'clock 800 policemen entered the Place
de la Roouette by two routes. and placed bar
riers to keep back the expected mob. Several
hundred persons had gathered, most Of them
from the lowest quarters Of the city. a man
of half-starved features left the crowd. stepped
to the spot where the guillotine was to be erected
and, after shaking his tattered sleeves at the
crowd. shouted as he uncovered his head: Il
am more unlucky than he. Pity me-"
Groups Of men and women came TO the square
with increasing frequency. At 24O o'clock TWO
battalions of the Republican Guards, on foot'
preceded by drum corps. marched up the hue
ae la Roquette to the prison. They were followed
by a company of mounted guards. and soon
afterward by another battalion OF lhlah"S' All
took position in the square ,.o
Republican Guards continued to march into
the square until than 1000 Of them mao
been disposed between and around the t owo
prisons so as to cut off exit through 'he I.ue
Merlin the Rue de la Fone Kegnaui' pii "I,oI I
IS the barn containing the gullloiine) the l.ue t
C,erhier the Rue q. la ROquette, leadlng 10 tie
Cemetery OF Pere IA Chaise OF the SOUTH 'ie
Rue de la Vacquerie and the Kue ScrNah' ~
3:45 o'clock the crowd outside the prisons was
not large as many had gone away when the
guards were stationed in such a manner iS as ~ ~
the Enclosure were thirty journalists ana various
oficials NJ Serlair's bar ard tobacco shop,
where the turkeys do their drinking WAS ope"
and crowded o.oo
NJ Dejber the executioner. appeared at 5:20
,Ioc- in a frocb coat and high hat. He was
on foot A few minutes later the TWO . la,inSa .i
vans runlbled into the square. They brought 'he
euillotine and DeibleT's son, sOn-in-iaw ana W.
other assistants. NJ. De!bler went to the van van
and by the light Of lantern. eXaiinea The S,e
knife and ropes as they were brought OUT. Inc
blade glstened brightly in the night. The con-
struction Of the gullctne proceeded rapidiy anu anu
silently. but for the occasional thud OF d eod iieo
of wood falling into place. The onlookers takea
in whispers. The lamps were still ighted AT .
o'clock but the inky blackness OF the night hau
begun to fade.
The crime for which valiant to-day paid the
penalty with his life committed In the Chah-
her OF IDENTITIES on December g. 1893. At about
vclock in the afternoon of that day. while the
Chamber was discussing election case. Valiant
Who was sitting in cne of the galleries reserved Tor
NE use Of spectators threw bomb toward the
ioor OF the house. The bomb exploded just as u
eft the rniscreants hand. and he was among the
sfty persons injured. Deputy Abbe Lemire was
the worst injured Of al those struck by the hyihg
nails with which the bomb had been loaded. ana
for some time IT was thought that he would die'
The Count de I4anjunais was also seriously "ouhu-
ed. A majority Of the injured persons were occu-
pants OF the galleries. CONSERVATION followed the
explosion. A wild rush was made by the visitors
TO get out OF the Chamber. but the gendarmes VINO
are ALWAYS on duty in the loboies caused the doors
to be shut and allowed one to leave the budihs'
1t due this coolheadedness that the arrest
Of valiant was made as ne by reeae 10 Who
thought he displaying too much anxiety 70 re- re-
away HIS arrest followed. He taken 70 tne
Hotel Dieu where his wounds were ,rsated Aiffs s
said that he went the Chamber with the lnteh- i
ton OF throwing his Internal machine on the rIe5 y
dent's table He waited more tnan an nour lot
; favorable opportunity; then. thinking II had ~
asst arrived he rose and hurled the bomb Into M tne
body Of the house At that moment woman BIZ
Ing in front Of him. resentlng his leaning over her.
pushed back. ard thus prevented him from throw-
tng the bomb exactly as he had intended. The ma
chine struck the edge Of the gallery, and NJ once
exploded. :. ,,,. ..,.
On the afternoon Of January 10 Va!llnnt was
Errsgned tried convicted and sentenced 70 So
the Communication OF the death sentence Tho appear
was sent b. the President to TIC pard9n,, S1n
lawyer asked Ike Cour. Of Cessasion 70 g;art "a
new trial. but. January 2s hs CoaT; d ncm,' vsij M
request. Many efforts we're riado 20 Inducs x"n.
liant to appeal to tho President but no refusea 70
do 70.