Evening star., 1896-07-18

| I'll that is gained. we are exposed to the
| most serious political dangers, both inter-
nal and from abroad.
KAMEHAMEHA
DIR. GASPARD'S HARD run.
| Similarly Followed Up, Almost ANY
Fellow Would Have Hurried Along.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
This story l can only tell as 1t was told to
me by the son of a man who took an active
| part in the French revolution.
Incredible as the narrative may seem to
the average reader. the old gentleman who
related the incident to me firmly believed
| 1t, and few experts in electricity have ad-
mitted that such things are possible. When
the revolution was at its height in Paris
during 1872 a young doctor. named Cas-
| pard. met horrible fate under very sin
sular circumstances. The doctor was de-
voted to science. He had mastered many
of the secrets of electricity. and there Is
good reason to believe that If he had lived
in our generation he would have been far
in advance OF our leading electricians.
DIR. Gaspard loved science and hated Du-
mont, dreaded rival in his own particular
field. One night Dumont was arrested and
carried before the revolutionary tribunal.
lie was tried and convicted of treason be-
fore midnight. and was sentenced to die at
an early hour the next morning. In this
case, SO hurriedly disposed of, the prose-
cutor was Gaspard. He made the affidavit
which caused the arrest, and he was the
only witness against the prisoner.
The square where the execution took
place was crowded at sunrise. for there
were thirty persons to suffer the death pen
atty. Dumont was young man of gigan-
tic size. He was very tall, with a massive
frame, and his head loomed far above his
fellow prisoners. He had nothing to say,
but his rowing eyes searched the ranks
1nt G,a1
upon one face-the face Of his false friend
Gaspard With mighty effort the pris-
onei bursted his bonds.
villain he shouted in ringing voice
as ne pointed to the man vino had betrayed
him. My death will be avenged. Your
hour of doom is near at hand,'
He was roughly seized, his wrists were
bound again. and the beating of the drums
drowned his voice.
Gaspard hid himself in the crowd and
waited. He did not have to wait long His
enemy was the first victim. and the guil!o-
tine had hardly severed the head before the
remains were placed on a stretcher and
carried to the doctors laboratory, close at
hand.
Gaspard locked his doors at once. He had
everything ready for his experiment A
few stitches reunited the head to the body
and the doctor went to work with his cleo
tr1cal appliances. Just what occurred in
the laboratory will rever be known There
We're stilf ten persons to be executed when
the people around the guillotine were struck
dumb with horror by spectacle more
shocking than the scenes they had just
witnessed on the scaffold.
DR.. GaSpard was seen rushing from h,s
laboratory in frenzy of frantic terror
Close at his heels followed Dumont! The
pursuers dress was disordered and covered
with crimson streakS from his neck down.
ward to his feet. His face, convulsed with
pain and rage. was a horrible sight to be-
hold.
When they had recovered from their
scattered in every direction, leaving only
the executioners the guards and the pris-
oners who were waiting their turn to
mount the Scaffold.
Straight through the square the two doc-
tors darted. Gaspard uttering the most fer
rifying cries, while the other sped along
In silence. The two reached a narrow
| street leading to the river. and then came
the most exciting part of the race.
They had traversed about 200 wards when
the stitches became loosened in Dumont's 9
neck. Quick lightning the victim of the
guHlotine snatched off his bleeding heat
CHASTITY thing in one hand, with its staring
eyes fixed on Gaspard. The wretched fuei-
tive, looking backward. saw this new hor-
ror and with blood-curdling yell he al
most doubled his speed.
Onward and still onward they flew, the
pursuer slowly gaining in the race. Scared
shopkeepers closed their doors: women
| shrieked from their windows and tainted: !:
brave soldiers turned white with fear and
many old people fell upon their knees and
| crossed themselves Looking neither to the
right nor to the left. Gaspard rushed on
ward, continuing his cries.
Attracted by the uproar. the judge who
mad sentenced Dun1ont stopped his carriage
and waited with his daughter to ascertain
the meaning of it ALL The young lady was
Gaspard's sweetheart and when she saw
her lover flying before the red and headlcss
avenger behind him she gave a desperate
scream. The fugitive saw her, but dared
not stop.
Without pausing. Dumont, when he pass
| ed the carriage. suddenly gave his head q
| swing and hurled 1t through the air 1t
| landed in the lap of the judges daughter,
| and. seeing its staring eyes looking into her
| own, the poor girl gave another scream
and then tainted. The judges horses DASH
| ed away at the top of their speed and the
few people who saw the affair barred their
doors and fell to praying in good earnest
Gaspard was about fifty yards from the
quay when Dumont caught him. The head
| less man wound one crimson arm around
| the captured doctor, and then dragged him
| 1apidly to the river. A moments pa Use,
and the struggling doctor was forced to
| leap into the water with the red terror, in
whose grip he was utterly helpless.
| 1t was hopeless, frightened face that
| disappeared under the black current This
| was all that a party of pleasure seekers In
| boat near the scene could tell about II
| afterward Almost before they knew II
| those In the boat saw the two men fisap-
| spot. on the surface Of the water but that
| was all. The bodies were never seen again
| This strange occurrence would have at
tracted the worlds attention but for the
| fact that the revolution furnished new SEN
| sations every day. AS 1t was. 1t was soon
| forgotten in city where the guillotine
flooded the streets with blood every morn
j ing.
| Still I'm the Ring.
/ From the Indfanapolis Journal