Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-01-19
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for going over Niagara In barrel
were inadequate, but he always hoped
to distinguish himself In one way OF
another.
lie had made some reputation as q
boy orator at the University of Erlan.
gen, after which he went to Jena, where
his talents attracted no attention, and
this soured him. II was Mt Jena that
he deliberately made up his mind to be
martyr, and he left fS-- Mannheim
armed with his dagger and n deter.
mlnatlon to kill Kotzebue. He had
planned everything. down to the small.
est details. His only excuse for max.
ing Kotzebue the victim was that the
latter had ridicuied the students asso.
citation.
And his plans worked out wonder.
fully well. After long years of war
and peril, the people were in a hysteri.
cal mood, and Sand was hailed as O
hero and martyr. In the whole coun.
try there was scarcely voice express.
ing sympathy for the murdered author.
The heinous deed was approved in
high quarters as well as low. The
flower gardens Of Mannheim were
desolnted, that the martyr might have
bouquets. Fortunately the tribunals
were not carried away by the prevail.
Ing sentimentalism. On May 3. 1920
the supreme court Of the grand duchy
OF Baden passed sentence upon him,
decreeing that he be executed by the
sword.
May 20 was the day fixed for the
execution, and the place was meadow
just outside one of the gates Of the
town. The news had spread far and
wide, an immense crowd streamed to
town to see the doings, and the SYM
pathy for Sand was so strong, and so
general, that rescue was feared, and
Il strong force Of infantry surrounded
the scaffold.
In the courtyard Of the prison Sand
was lifted into a low open chaisr. The
prisoners appeared at the Jail windows,
weeping and wringing their hands. for
they also considered him a hero, and
he bowed to them and smiled. When
the door OF the yard was opened, and
the chaise emerged. sobs and groans
were heard everywhere. The whole
town was in tears. Not one Of all the
of tears shed that day was
for Kotzebue, who was barbarlously
In his own home, before
the eyes Of his little son. The Ger
mans usually are the sanest and most
rlght-thinklng of people, but on this
occasion the dellrium was universal.
Sands progress to the scaffold was
n triumph. No ten-thousand-d dollar
beauty In an American circus ever
made greater hit. And the martyr
enjoyed every minute Of 1t. Although
weak from sickness, he played the con-
quering hero. Farewell, Sand!" cried
the sobbing crowd as the chaise moved
along.
The scaffold reached, the sacrifice
was soon over. With one stroke of his
sword the executioner re4
the young mans head. Then
ensued scene 80 remarkable that its
parallel probably never occurred. The
scaffold was ripped to pieces by sou,
venir hunters. Men and women dipped
their handkerchiefs In the martyrs
blood. The executioner sold single
hairs from the dead mans head, and
couldn't hand them out fast enough,
IF ever mans ambition was rounded
out, that man was Karl Ludwig Sand.
And for n long time after he was
buried fair women carried garlands to
his grave, and his heroic deed was
sung by MINISTRIES, and students wept
when his name was mentioned. But
time adjusts all things, and 1t came to
pass In due season that the burghers
of Mannheim began to appreciate thu
greatness of the murdered man, and
then the flowers We're carried where
they properly belonged.