Show SUn sunned VED HIS th soldiers aired a volley at gitsa and then marched away a A man who has attended his own execution and still survives to relate the details is surely worthy of a short paragraph the man in question though at present serving in the humble capacity of waiter intone of the paris cafes was twenty one years ago one of the historic characters of the world hiis colonel marderas Mar teras and in he wason the point of being proclaimed president of uruguay when he was arrested charged with treason and sentenced to be shot on monday june SO of that year says the st louis deepu alic he was taften by a platoon of soldiers but of the capital to a cleared spot in the heart of a forest anal bound to a chair at the word fire a nervous shock caused marderas Mar teras to fall ground lie did not hear the volley but work ing rie arJay did the workman went to ascertain the cause saw the soldiers marching away and marderas Mar teras badly wounded but not dead by any means lying on the grounds the laborer took the would be president home and cured his wounds and he and marderas Mar teras now often tell of the supposed execution of th eFrench pretender al alap witness testifying then he tried to detain me idonger by asking me to drink with him I 1 replied 1 I never arink sab and besides tho trin leaves in ten minutes and I 1 am in a hurry to get home to kentucky I 1 T jury in one voice vs weekly |