The Cotton Factory Times. — 1892-04-15 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

EXECUTION OF ANA STAY. Saturday Morning.  Anastay, the young officer who murdered Barer, et 3 Dellard in the Boulevard du Temple, and sin attempted to assassinate her servant under atrocious circumstances, paid the penalty of his crime jun after daybreak this morning. For the past two nights a crowd, mostly composed of the scum et Parisians, bad been waiting outside the Roquette Prison to witness the scene, a rumour having spread as early as Thursday night that Anestay's days were numbered. The surroundings of the Place de l' Execution and the Rue de la Roquette. tenanted by numerous makers of funeral wreaths and tombstones, are lugubrious in the extreme, and the great French necropolis of Pere-la-Chaise is a near neighbour of the spot where the execution took place. Shortly after three o'clock "Monsieur de Paris," better known as 31, Deibler, and his men having finished the erection of the guillotine, carefully inspected the machine to assure themselves that all was in order, and aftef this gruesome detail had been carried out a picquet of mounted gendarmes and a number of foot soldieps formed up on the right and left of the instrument of death. As the day began to break, the Abbe Valadier, the prison almoner, together with the officials, M. Goron, chef de la Burets, and his secretaries, the procureur de la republique, and his grefiler, made their appearance. The law compeie these officials to assist the governor of the prison in carrying oat the sentence on the condemned. At five o'clock the Abbe Valadier and the officiali named entered the cell, but found that Aoastay Wets already awake, having evidently had previous intimation of the fact that his execution was near at hand, from the circumstance that he had written to his brother Leon. He dressed without availing himself of the proffered assistance, having been informed that his appeal to the presidential clemency was rejected, and that the moment had come to prepare himself for his fate. After having confessed, Auustay walked with a firm step, but with a face over-spread by a ghastly oorpse-like pallor, to tile small room called the avant greffe, where )1. Deibler and his assistants were in waiting. he was seated, and the toilette du condanme—to well known to require description—M.B g" through. Pinioned in order to prevent violent resistance, the condemned man bravely walked to the scaffold, and having spoken a few words to those around him, his head was placed in the lunette, the trigger was pulled, and the knife fell within a quarter of an hour of the officials entering the cell. Anasta s father claimed the body in order that an examination might be made of the brain, with a view to proving the existence of cerebral trouble, but the authorities refused to allow any special post-mortein examination to be made, and the usual course will followed. The basket containing the trunk and head was lifted into a black van, which immediatelY was driven towards the Cemetiere d' Ivry, the burial place of criminals ontside the Paris fortifical tions. Four mounted gendarmes, the carriages 01 the Abbe Valadier, the chef de la snrete, and a few vehicles filled with reporters, followed the van, the spectators dispersing to their usual vocations, or to recount the scene just witnessed. All was over by 5 35.  A score of Irishmen were on their way to Dublin a day or two ago, when one of them said, " How many moiles to Dohlin is it, —Moike?" " Twenty worse luck," answered Mike. "Then, faith, we.. " all do a mode apiece, anyhow." replied M.