Show WITH HIS BACK TO THE GUN Pallas Pays the Death Penalty at Barcelona Bar-celona Barcelona Oct GPanas the anarchist an-archist who on September 24 made an L H aiiempi on tne me ot Captain General Gen-eral Martinez Campos by throwing two bombs at him was shot at 9 oclock this morning according to the sentence of the court martial which tried him From first to last he refused re-fused the ministrations of the priests sneered at their exhortations laughed at their pictures of the future state of the unrepentent and marched to the place of execution singing an anarch ist song as if to drown the words of the holy fathers of the church who walked by his side The execution took place in an enclosure en-closure near the castle of Monuuich A large l body of troops of siriall arms formed three sides of square facing the death wall against which Pallas was placed Outside the line of troops crowds of people gathered though not as great a i would have been but for the fact that the place of execution was not announced in advance ad-vance with the idea to prevent an opportunity for Pallas anarchist friends from plotting a dynamite outrage out-rage in connecton with it The preliminaries pre-liminaries aranged the firing squad was V drawn up the guns loaded and P las placed against V V the V wall his back to the firing V squad A sharp order was given the guns came to the i shoulders and as the commanding officers of-ficers sword flashed downward a volley vol-ley rang out and Pallas fell forward dead Then the body was lifted up the troops marched away and all was over |