The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-05
VALIANT TO DIE TO-DAY.
Paris Intensely Excited and OutrageS
Feared.

to Madame Oarnot for Her Fathers
Life.
Paris, Feb. 4.-Auguste valiant, the
anarchist who was convicted and SEN
fenced to death for throwing bomb in
the Chamber of Deputies, will be exc
cuted tomorrow morning. This settles
the question, which has for some days
agitated Paris, whether Valiant would
die upon the guillotine, or have his SEN
tence commuted for life Imprisonment on
the Isle Of Pines The decision that he
must die, is regarded here as a defeat for
the revolutionary party and a triumph
for the opportunists, who, since the bomb
explosion, have been demanding the en-
forcement of vigorous measures and the
strictest application Of the law as lesson
to the anarchists.
CARNoT PERPLExED.
There is no doubt that President Car
not, who has been anxious to act in strict
accordance with the constitution, has
been considerably perplexed as to what
course he should take in Vaillant's case.
All the memorials and petit
tions sent to him by sympathiz-
ers of Valiant have been referred
by him to the pardons committee,
at the ministry of justice. The fate of
valiant nominally rests with the presi-
dent but in such cases, he is guided by
his advisor, the minister of Justice.
Despite all the efforts of the reyolu-
tionary, socialist, and anarchist news
papers, to compel President Carnot to
assume the responsibility, he has re-
fused to do so.
PLEA FROM HIS DAUGHTER.
ceived at the Palais de pElysee, was one
which it is claimed was written by ST.
donie, the daughter of Valiant, to
Madame Carnot, beseeching the latter to
interfere on behalf of the anarchist.
Many persons doubt the ability of the
child TO write such letter. in which ex-
pressions are used that are hardly child
like.
PARIS INTENSELY EXCITED.
All Paris is intensely excited over the
near approach of the execution, and
tremendous crowd is looked for in the
streets near where the execution will take
place. The police continue to make arrests
of anarchists, and the searches at the
houses of suspected persons are unremit-
tingly kept up, but Notwithstanding the
vigilance of the police bombs
and internal machines continue to
be found in the streets and in
the houses, where they are placed by
anarchists who, in nearly every instance,
escape detection. The police protection
tomorrow will be on an extraordinary
scale, but despite the show of force which
the officials intend to make, it is feared
that the execution of Valiant will be the
occasion of further startling attempts on
the part Of the anarchists.
A CROWD ON wAToH.
Paris, Feb. 3, 3 q. m.-Persons living
near the Prison de La Roquette watched
nearly all day for signs of the approach
ing execution. At o'clock this morning
M. Labori, the lawyer who defended
valiant at his trial, visited the con-
demned man in his cell. He left soon,
but returned at z o'clock. The persons on
watch near the prison interpreted these
visits as meaning that the execution
would take place tomorrow morning. M
Labori was supposed to have gone to
Valiant with the information that Presi-
dent Cafnot had declined to grant the re-
prieve which the lawyer had requested
orally.
A SEALED PACKET.
At 9 o'clock mounted messenger from
the minister of justice delivered a sealed
packet to Chief Warden Brun. Of the
Ruquette prison. In the next hour and a
half few persons gathered in the Place
de la Roquette. Policemen stood in
groups of threes at conspicuous points, as
they have stood every evening during
the last eight days. The crowds
were still off in other parts
Of the city enjoying the foretaste of the
carnival, whose approach was being her
aided by men and women on the boule-
Yards, wearing masks and fancy cos
tunes, throwing confetti. and tickling
each others necks and faces with pea
cocks feathers.
TO DIE AT DAYBREAK
Just after midnight messenger from
the prefecture of police entered the
Figaro Office and told the group of news
paper men chatting there that the execu-
tion would take place at daybreak.
When the reporter started for the Place
de la Roquette, the sky was black, with
out glimmer of moonlight or starlight.
Just after IL o'clock fine rain had begun
to fall and it stilled the fair. The boule-
wards were almost empty at / O'Clock as
many of the masqueraders had gone home
and others had entered cafes to await
there the hour for going to Roquette
prison. From the knots of outcasts loiter-
ing 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 tn
Rue De la Rouquette, along the Boulevard
Voltaire to the Rue du Faubourg ST.
Antoine, and at every corner had sum
moned groups of listeners, who at once
made ready to go to the scene of the
execution
POLICE AND MILITARY GATHERING.
At1:45 O'Clock 300 policemen entered
the Place de la Roquette by two routes
They placed the barriers 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 af-
ter shaking his tattered sleeves at the
crowd, shouted. as he uncovered his head:
~ am more uulucky than he, pity me-"
Groups of men and women came to the
square with increasing frequency At
2 40 O'Clock two battalions of the Republi-
can guards, on foot, preceded by drum
corps. marched up the Rue de la Ro-
quette to the prison, They were fol-
lowed by a company of mounted guards
and soon after by another battalion of
infantry. All took positions in the
square.
vAILLANT's CRIME.
The crime for which valiant pays the
penalty with his life was committed in
the Chamber Of Deputies on Dec. last.
At about o'clock In the afternoon of
that dav rsyhfia the cha m her VIVA die