The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-06-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE MURDERERS.  DEATH OF M. JULES SIMON. TRIPLE EXECUTION AT NEWCATE IL Jules Simon, the celebrated French statesman, _  died in Paris at 11.40 cm. on Monday. M. SIM= r had been in a weak Mate for 00I1le time past. Early At nine o'clock on Timidity morning Fowler last week he went for a drive, and on his Milsoni, and Scams], the three convicts, return ascended, unaided, the five lights of stain murderers at Newgete, were hanged "ate leading to Ids fiat in the Place de Is Madeleine. The cording to law," and the crimes at Muswell next morning he complained of feeling tired, and Hill and Whitechapel were avenged. Billington, he never after left his bed. On Sunday his conditioe became critics', and he lapsed into unconsciousness, the executioner, and his assistant slept in the from which, it is said, he never recovered. gaol overnight, and thoroughly tested the dread Btooluenteat Sarrcu. apparatus from which the three men were sent ta M. Jules Simon was one of the most diatincniehed their final account. Colonel Milman, the Governor of Frenchmen of the 19,11 cent ur. indeed,througlsout his the prison, west the roved of the cells during long career M. Simon was a prominent ligure, whether the night, before the convicts had retired. as Deiversity Pretest r, member of the Assembly Al had, been the use during their confineor Chamber of Deputies, as an advocate of, Free ni...6..aet0 therebuster ctitaioals, Fowler and [Mama, Trade, or Minister of State. He was in bAefg having been body at, FAtilet in e I ....,. sms.. piarte MIT ind tiereat, the fernier, oirlY ern 1814. His father. biro this • 'surname 4 heading to express satteffrOtion when he heard that Suiese, sod the lad WWI christened Jul hillocemplims was, Is suffer, while Mileem lie Francois Simon. Prom es early age, how. minas sad depressed, and seemed to anticipate his ever, the Francois and the Sad se were dropped, and ,„te with use keenest meets, anghm. lie bed hem from his entry into milli life the deceased statesman was known as Jule- Simon slimly. Restudied lodged in the east side of the gaol, near Mn. Dyer's at Vannes and Rennes, and in 1836 became Pro- cell, while Fowler and Seaman occupied cells at the fessor of Philosophy at Caen, going the following otter mad. year to Versailles. There he stayed but a twelvemonth, being summoned to Paris by M. Victor Cousin, whom, in 1839. he succeeded In the Chair of Historical Philosophy at the Sorbonne. Whilst still performing his duties at the Sorbonne, M. Simon decided to enter political life. After an unsuccessful candidature in 1846 he was la 1848 returned to the Constituent Assembly and attached himself to the Moderate Republican party. 11. Simon was one of the committee charged with the organisation of the Constitution, and his powers at orato y were at once acknowledged. In the June following the "Red Republicans" sought to overthrow the Government, and in the street-fighting in Paris M. Simon took his part Order re-ecablished, he took the post of Secretary of the Commission on Primary Education. His subsequent political career was marked by the u-ual up + and downs of French political life. In 1851., in consequence of Ms refusal to recognise the PrineciPresident as Emperor, M. Simon was instructed to suspend his lectures at the Sorbonne, and was in the end dismissed from his professorship. His fellowprofessor, M. liarthillemi Saint -Hi are, took the acme course. In 163 he reentered public life and took his seat in the Corps Logi latif as a member of the Republican Opposition, of which he speedily became the thief. In the election campaign of 1889 M. Simon took a very active part, his speeches in Paris attn ting great attention not only all over France, but in England. On the assembl ng of the Chamber in January, 1870, M. Simon made , a notable speech in favour of Free-trade, an t also brought foiward a pro; osition for the abottion of the r.enalty of death. He energetically opposed the declaration of war avainst Prusais„ and took a leading r art in the stormy OebAte which followed the opening of the war. After the revolution of September, 1870. M. Simon became A member of the Committee of National Defence, and took up his residence at the Hotel tie Ville. He remained in Paris throe hout the siege of the city by the Prussians, and was, With other members of the .Government, besieged by the Communists in the Hotel de Vile—the night of °col er 31st. M. Simon did not witness the