Show SURVIVED HIS EXECUTION the soldiers aired a volley at him and marched away 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 in twenty one years ago one of the hi characters of the world his name is colonel marderas Mar teras and in 1869 he was on the point of being proclaimed president of uruguay when he was arrested charged with treason and sentenced to be shot on monday june 30 of that year says the SL louis republic he was taken by a platoon of soldiers out of the capital to a cleared spot in the heart of a forest and bound to a chair at the word fire a nervous shock caused marderas Mar teras to falato the ground he did not hear ake bolley but a laborer working near by did the workman went to ascertain the cause saw the soldiers marching away and marderas Mar teras badly I 1 wounded but not dead by any means lying on the ground 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 the french pretender j |