Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16


 left side of the guillotlno.
 santo Sees the GuIIlotine.
 The assistants fixed the gangway. The priest approached Santo who prctended not to see him.
 When Santo appeared, walking with extreme difficulty, his much open shirt displaying h is breast, frail and bony, his eyes were first fixed on the guillotine and then wandered to the troops and the crowd. He uttered tho cries, Courage, mes camaradesl" "Vivo ranarchie" but the sou,i issued feebly from his closed teeth and was hardly audible beyond the troops. The word were hardly uttered when San to was seized and pushed toward the bas- cule. He made a feeble struggle and fell. | His weight was much too light and his | executioners were compelled to raise him and thrust him forward. He made an- other frantic movement, obliging Dieblcr | to come to the assistance of his men and place Santos head under the iunette. Much time was taken up with these movements.
 At last Diebler pressed the handle and released the knife. A sharp, short sound | announced the severance of the vertcbrac a spurt of blood sprinkled tho wagon, the head fell into the basket of sawdust, and the body was rolled into another. Bravos sounded from the crowd, which seemed less moved nan at ordinary executions.
 The Crime and the Conviction.
 The crime for which Santo this morn ing paid the penalty with his life throw l France into the deepest mourning, excited | the most intense indignation and caused i the adoption ny the Frcnch parli mcnt of stringent measures against anarchy and anarchists.
 The details of the murder of tho preSi- ! dent of France, the arrest of his assassin. Cascrio Santo. and tie subsequent trial l and conviction of the murderer are yet too fresh in the public mind to require 1 extended mention.
 On the evening of sunday, Juno q. | President CarnOt, who had gone to Lyons to attend the exhibition, was driving from the Palace de Commerce to tho Grand theater, where gala performance was to bo given in his honor. and was stabbed l in the side by Santo. who was one of the | crowd of thousands If persons who lined the route along which it was known the 1 president would pass
 The carriage in which President Car not was riding had gone n short distance along tho Rue dc Ia Republique, when. as it was passing the building occupied by the Crcdit LyOnnais. Santo sprang out of l the crowd and jumped upon the step In l his left hand he had n bouquet of flowers. and it was supposed by those who saw him that 1t was his intention to present tho bouquet tn the president. As soon as 1 SantO was within reach of the president I he drcw n dagger he had concealed under 1 his coat, and leaning over plunged the weapon into tho side of M. Carnot inilict- l ing n fatal wound.
 Santo was placed on trial before the assi1e court on Aug. ?. He confessed his crime in open court and appeared tO glory fin the evil he had done The defense. as forlorn hopo sought to prove that the prisoner was insane hasing the claim on the alleged fact that lunacy had at some time existed In the Santo family. It was also sought to bc proved that the anarch- ist surroundings of Santo wcro in n mea- sure responsible for the crime and that this fact should plead in ..his cxtcnuation. The jury, however, on Aug. ., found him guilty without e&tenuating Circum- stances, and he was at once sentenced tG death. When tho sentence was pronounc- cd. Santo cried, Long live the social rev olutiOn. and when tho gcndarmcs took him from the courtroom he turned at the door and shoutrd
 Courage, comrades. Long live an. Gfchy"
 No appeal from the sentence was taken, and. above stated. the law took 1t. l course this morning.