Show I LARGE CROWD SEES i I FRENCH EXECUTION People Stand In Rain Waiting for Guillotine to Fall Fail PRISONER SILENT SIL NT AT BLOCK CONDEMNED MAN WEEPS BE EE BEFORE POKE FORE CRUEL ORUEL BLADE DROPS DROES Paris July l In spite of C r pelting rain a large Jars em passed th lh the greater part p rt of or a night recently In la th the square In hi front of or the prison at t Sisteron I which Is le situated in th the Ole Department of or th the It had assembled to I witness M an MI execution Franzoni was vaa w the leader of a band haRd known an as Lea Les I de des Alp Alpee which bad had spread pread terror throughout the country T i jury 81 bad had contrived to find exten extenuating I sating drou for hi bl his accomplices accomplices and he had clung to 10 the hope hopt that the tile sentence of or death passed on him wound would be commuted a as executions executions have haye been eo so rare In I France I specially of ot late years year list But a few days daya ago he be seemed med to realise that his doom was wag sealed and being awak awake awakened I ened by loud cries he asked uneasily unU what they meant On being bel told lold that troop tro had been marching by n he ex exclaimed I claimed Oh I under understand My I exe execution About Aut att cution cullon Is drawing near i soldiers and fifty fin gendarmes se were drawn up UI In Ina Inathe the square when the pub public public I lic Ilc accompanied by b other officials entered cell all and aft after r having haying Informed him bl that Ma his appeal had been rejected told him to tobe tobe be brave brav as AlII the moment was wu approach approachIng b blac lag Ing when he be was wan to pay his 11 debt to society elty I Iob Cries Sound Doom These Tae words wo had bad scarcely been spoken HIkeR H when loud load cries from the assembled bl multitude and as he dressed fI himself shed abed eel bitter tears MI his hie a d Ie thought betas being be for tor his his eld old and b brokenhearted mother He H II j heard rd mass went weRt through the Ute usual i grim toilet l and wa wu then t led tod to the I scaffold which toad hAd beets been erected a couple of yards In front Of oC the Ute gate of or orthe the prison When he got bat 0 there he be tried to speak but b hA coded c not utter uUra a word ord A moment later hi b his head bead was wan laid on the block and anti the tile blade fell rell t tM j M K bad uti arrived at on I the previous evening before his hili gull rull lime latino and aDd there was walt some tOme speculation as to whether the execution could take takee place piece that tt day It was waa thought at t first i I that the machine might have been I I Int sent nt In error to another but t It was wu received In la I time to enable the executioner to put everything in I I thorough order I Another ARother execution took tk place the thee i same e morning naon the seen scene n being Inc in Al AI I Iste I glen ste One On 0 Vidal had bad been condemned to death for a triple murder and aad when wh n I Ithe Ithe the Judicial authorities roused him by b bb entering his hta b cell he understood that I his hIli hour had come thanked his hs coun counsel sel HI conversed with the prison chapel and after taking a glass 1 of rum ru sui ui with witt a murmur to the toi tole toilet tolt let lat t VIdal walked with a firm step stepto to the Ute guillotine and sad wa was w attempting to t address the crowd when he b was w seined and ad his hi head In spite spit of ot his re remonstrance monstrance laid on the tile Mock block A mo moment moment ment afterward all was w over As he had bad no relatives his bl body wa was con conveyed on to the te morgue where were It was W dissected by b two twe t 8 doctors octon who paid particular attention to 10 the brain of or the murderer I |