The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06
To ME GUiLLoTINE.
Santos Jurors Were Out only Thirteen Min
utes His Case.

utes His Case.
Lyons. August 3.-The second day of the
trial OF the anarchist assassin, Santo
Cesario, opened with the testimony of the
soldier. Leblanc, who, while under arrest
Tor desertion, was confined in the hospital
al Cet;e at the same time that Cesario was
a patient I'm that institution. Leblanc re-
lated the purport Of his chats with Cesario
while in the hospital. and persisted in his
previous statement that Cesario had de-
cI3red that the anarchists would not Kill a
president or king ana also in his state
ment that Cesario had said that the lots
had been drawn and that ne had in this
way been assigned to go to Lyons and kill
Nj. Carnot.
Cesario denied that he had said these
things TO Leblanc, though he admitted that
he had preached anaIcnistic doctrines to
him. Concerning the drawing of lots, Ce-
sario said that anarchists retained abso-
lutte individual liberty of action, and would
not execute deeds merely because they
happened TO have been selected by hazard,
or for any other particular reason than
that of their own will.
At $50 o'clock the arguments began. The
prisoners counsel in the course of his
gument said that Cesario had fled from
Italy to France because he had been con-
demned i'm Italy. He came TO France with
out money and without a passport. Under
the circumstances his friends were neces-
sarily among the anarchists. who reiterated
to him the incisions to crime which Gori
had inculcated in him. Cesario, he de-
clared. was mere instrument
MOI" shouted Cesario, springing to his
feet, that is not true
The prisoner then, in an excited manner,
addressed himself to NJ. Debreuil, insisting
that he terminate his argument at once.
NJ Breuill, the presiding judge. frowned
the prisoner down and threatened to put
there during the remainder of the trial if
he did not remain quiet.
Cesario subsidized. When the argument
had been concluded the court gave these
questions To the jury:
did the prisoner. Santo Cesario. assas-
sinate President Carnot, and was the crime
premeditated?'
Verdict of Guilty.
The jury retired 1T 1906 o'clock and was
out Just thirteen minutes. They returned
To court and presented an affirmative an
swer TO both questions.
CesariO. who had ir the meantime been
removed from the courtroom, was brought
back and the jurys declaration was read
- him by the registrar.
At The announcement of the verdict the
supercilit ms grin which Cesario has worn
most of the time during the trial disap-
peared like Magic and his face blanched
Attorney General Folchier demanded the
iilliicuIale imposition OF the death penalty.
To Die by the GuilIotinc.
There was a silence for a moment and
then the judge i'm solemn tone, but with a
touch of harsEness. pronounced the sentence
that the prisoner be put TO death by the
guillotine.
As the sound OF the judges voice ceased
Cesario pulled himself together--for a mo
ment he was almost limp-and in feeble
voice exclaimed:
Ia.
Two gendarmes seized the condemned
assassin and they hurried him out of
the room on the way To his cell he did not
forget TO shout, in voice somewhat strong
er than his last utterance. he meaningless
words employed by all anarchists convicted
OF crime:
Courage, comrades, vive ranarcher'
The written statement prepared by Cesario
and read to the court by the interpreter,
is Numbering and disjointed production,
containing the customary anarchistic al
firmations that hundreds died af hunger
and exposure: that children and women
work fifteen hours day for a mere pit
tance, living upon black bread, while the
fortunes Of the favored few are squandered
I'm luXuries and other familiar plattudes.
CcSnrIo's Statement.
''When a child" the prisoner says in
his statement, II believed i'm God. When /
became older | that II was not God
that created man, but that it was man who
created God. Though l have been but a
short time here. l have seen much in
justice. The strikers in the north. after
three months privation. We're forced To
resume work at the same old starvation
wages After this act the authorities. not
satisfied with Furnishing these poor wretches.
prosecuted them and domiciliary visits were
made to all persons of our sect. Just
as long as these measures are employed so
long viii We reply with the dagger and
with dynamite. The last words Of the
Chicago martyrs were: Long live anarchy!
Death to society," These words crossed the
ocean and the mountains viii resound with
them everywhere until the sect's ideal pre-
walls. When no longer starving working
men are driven TO suicide. and when no
longer the sect is prosecuted, but the rulers
and legislators are extirpated. then Will
come the era of the exploitation Of the work
ingmen and happiness will reign supreme"