Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
GU|LL0T|NE TO
Be ABOLISHED
Radical Majority in Chamber OF
Deputies to Put a Stop to
Capital Punishment.
END OF TERRIBLE WIDOW"
Executioner Has Saved Enough to
Keep Him for Rest of His Days
Guarded Against Surprises.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
ARTS. Nov. 1..-When the long par
lianentary vacations are over
| and the French chamber meets
| again, portentous question will
nave to be decided once and for all: '.Is
| capital punishment to be abolished I'm
| france and the executloner 10 go?"
There seems little doubt that the Rad
| ical majority viii answer this aues-
ton in the affirmative and we may ex-
poet that ere long the terrible guiIlotine
the Widow" as It is facetiously
termed In Paris land--wil leave Its
present quarters in the Rue de la Folie
Hegnault for a permanent home In the
Carnavalet museum, TO be gazed at as a
relic OF bygone times and thrill the
blood OF lovers Of the sensational.
The Budget committee has anticipate
ed the vote or parliament by recon-
mendlng the suppression of NJ. Antole
Deibler's salary and allowances as pub.
lie executioner.
SERIOUS SITUATION.
The situation created by this recon-
mendatlon Is altogether curious and
anomolous For some time mast M
n.
for the simple reason that since Ia.
Roquette prison was pulled down about
TOUR years ago the guillotine has no
abiding place In the capital Every
time II Is proposed To confer this honor
on this or that quarter or square, such
storm OF protest Is raised by the in 2
habltants Interested, that the project
drops forthwith. More than one GRIM
inal IL lying IN a Paris prison under
sentence OF death and the president OF
the republic finds himself practically
compelled 20 commute the capital PEN
atty into one Of lifelong Imprisonment.
one jovial assassin. who delights IN
the nickname OF lie Fruise des Hal
les (Curley Wig OF the markeD
VOWS thar be will not he respited.
They have condemned me- he says,
sand they shall execute mel
WIDOWS" BLOODY WORK.
Meanwhile the Widow" has been do
ing her bloody work in the provinces.
and NJ. Falleres has been free to .exer-
else the prerogative OF mercy strictly on
the merits OF each case. Now however.
that the Budget committee has spoken
the president will IN all probability.
feel himself constrained to give provin-
cial criminals the benefit OF the doubt
until the question "a settled. Only the
Rhope condemned q murderer 20 the
death penalty. II Is, 20 gay the least.
on embarrassing situation.
After the criminals themselves. this
question. most nearly affects NJ. Anatole
Dcibler. the public executions. Il.
Anatole-M. dc Paris. as lie Is termed
(for Frenchmen Will cut joke az death
HIMSELF lis the third member Of n
famous dynasty His grandfather was
the founder of the line so 10 speak. His
dcyterlty was such that he once gull
lOtined eight sailors &c single stroke
OF the knife. Louis, who succeeded him.
died two sears ago az the ripe age Of
81, after having terminated the exist
orces OF 81 criminals 81 both sexes
The exscutloner's mantle dcscert-d
on the shoulders Of Anatole who, hts
fathers assistant had already distir-
gilshed himself on many tragic occH-
slcns by his cooluess aud resourccfGl-
ness. He n n biz powerful man with
blue eyes and short chestnut beard
and looks IN private NE anything but
an executioner Since his nomination
he has presided al foug eAscutiors, the