The evening world., 1911-06-02

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gBY ALBERT RAXSON TERliUNE%
ouuaA. 1911 b. n. p- ruAAaa.. O. IN. Nm 1, wsAu.
No. 0-The Charlotte Corday Plot Ia Wasted C1ime).
= HE was q conventbred sEi-senue homelodns. we'll educated ne
attracted people. She would have mad. . dsvous nun. . ioyl win
- or an ideal mother. She wa . out Of place in the terrible role
that Fate assigned to her IS would oe a Ansora kitten o . battlefield. She
sought to turn the red tide Of destiny. to check slaughter. to redress her
peoples wrongs She succeeded only in losing her own life and in Mains
ten times worse the conditions she had tried to cure
France had thrown aside its letters and had put . swift end to cen
turtles Of oppression. The mobiles who had made slaves Of the People had
been killed or forced to fee for their lives. The King and Queen. who had
stood as nsureheads for tyranny. we're put to death.
France " al free from it's old masters and for the moment had no very
clear o united idea what to do with its freedom. The Revolutionisss. h~
Ing no nor aristocrats left to kill, split UP in factions and began to kill
each IN. m %.. TS: %. s"s Of asnS1 vt Of a's a. tn. faction. va. % a. tn. Jacob.
TSs s.Ion diseased: and yet. genius in his own twisted fa'h0n-wa' this
.. Terror a,n a %1sf r., ,s s..s ,, ss.,' s,, va, p, n. g S,F; 81: s,. ,:My; n. ::
M.r.. w. us hunting out is. mem@r. for thu sarnotne ="
A rosD o. orondl., leader. sshsroa At c.en . rstasst from their a..u...
When thu oirondsts reached caen they were welcomed at the city gates by .
a short. rather Ockiy built woman II twenty-four. with . plain. sweet face
Ami. Charlotte corday GArman.-hnovn to history" as Charlotte c0rday-'A'
o-e on.so;'s ss had Of Fs sSon ms' M nc "a. wa. .sm IN s'1 ter h en" n%, s ssva T,snsS Nam NJ J.
w VINE .srs s1 ~ wa 81, a', snnr , ,sS 5 s BY ,s ,ns% ito =. m aaspns sssn "ss a. nS~n, AZ =,
condemned to death M man he loved.
tn. IN S.o sSs nSS 'ssa s"a anns thus ''1 q. :s ssnsvss :, % s"a the R4 ' Of T%ros MOTT" Moth.
d bloody a deed. 1t is hard to understand how she brought herself to such a
resolution. exceptt that a wave of mistaken patriotism swept away every natural
emotion. PhrenOlosits say she had tho skull Of a born murderess" If So ts1
trait had eve before developed in Ter
Reaching Paris hi bought a common table knife for 70 c""D and. .re
on OF W failures managed to obtain Al. interview with Maratu nde he pNtacs
Of having brought him the names of som hitherto unsupported Girondista She
called on MaratJ July 1b. 1873 He as lying ina bathtub. swathed lin oveshbs
being NJ only way 10 could md rehef from the mortal disease that IA already
hurrying him to the grave. Charlotte handed him a paper
~~ containing a list of Girondit m Marat seized thu ht
a a,,r' cOaklns:
I Mad Deed. They shall die every me OF them
'~~~~~~ As he spoke Charlotte threw herself upo n unsuspea-
ing man nc stabbed him to death. His servants rushed in an dsarmed her The
mob in the sreets va with dimcuny prevented from tearing hr ITO p,ece. shs
s 'S.sss Il, n , .i.'' wnsa s 1s judges Ss :a' asked to - s'sa. .s. s ss Z, ~' a. s1 IN ss 10 ss' s.s-: .
tho girl answered:
Nothing, except that IA successful
She was ndemned m on Jul II guNlotned When her head ~
struck m the execuuoner held It up for the crowd to see n lie struck the pand
cheek witt his cenched nt A gasp rent u p from TIT whole ssscmbsse. FOR
accordns to he testimony of many eye-wttnessc) Charlotte. white facet flushed
crimson under The insult Of the blow!
Hers as a wasted crime. Mara' in o'e would soon have died. The
assassination made i'm appear martyr And in vengin him III Jacohns
krledcGhondi~s, indiscnminateiy. giving tn Reign of Terror a nov iease Of NE
IN multiplying n former rec lstof executions. Said the Girondist Vergniaudi
IN has billed US. but M has taught US to die"