Show fRENCH STIRRED GUILLOTINE GUILLOTINING OF PARIS PATRICIDE PATRI-CIDE PRESENTS A DRAMATIC SPECTACLE 1 TROOPS LINE THE STREETS Execution Had More Resemblance to Clever Disappearing Lady In Music Hall Than to a Real Tragedy Executioner Perfect In Duty 1nrls The French mind being preeminently pre-eminently logical there is a demand for a change in tho method of executing exe-cuting death sentences The law provides pro-vides that they bo performed in a pubic pub-ic place In practice no member of the pubic pub-ic strictly speaking saw anything of the recent guillotining the only eyewitnesses eye-witnesses being 1GO journalists a dozen mounted gendarmes and 20 policemen The difficulty of finding n place fqr tho guillotine since La Hoquctto prison was pulled down always has been preferred as nn excuse for the practical abolition of capital punish nent which Paris enjoyed or suffered In tho last decade That this difficulty no longer exists was shown when the guillotine was erected in tho middle of tho yard of Saute prison Opposite the wall are the grounds of n huge unoccupied convent so that nothing overlooked the spot The only drawback was that there was no door to the prison on this side and therefore there-fore the condemned leaving by a door In Sante street at right angles with the Boulevard Arago was driven some seventy yards along this street and then 150 to the place of death Some 1200 soldiers were on duty barring every road around the prison They assured that no ono approached except those possessing police passes About 3t5 a in Executioner Delb lers men began erecting the guillotine guillo-tine Without the sound of a hammer and without a spoken word of command com-mand the machine was put together by the light of a candle flickering in an oldtime lantern Tho lantern only was used when Deibler wished to test by a water V y Aids Seized Cloak and Veil level that everything waS exact Within an hour ono of his assistants extinguished the light and all was ready Tho knife was run up to the top but no test drop was made so confident was DeIbler In his men and tho machine Tho dawn of a summer day revealed re-vealed tho maroon colored wood of justice Its position among trees robbed it of much of its f errors Shortly it was fully daylight The prison van came round tho corner up the boulevard and stopped opposite the guillotine Two men let down tho back which formed stops from the vehicle down which came first tho prison governor then a priest and then a figure which might havo been Lazarus coming from tho grave It had its hands fastened behind Its back and a loose covering hanging from its shoulders Tho body was naked except for linen trousers Over the face hung a black veil thin enough to allow tho features to bo visible The code prescribes that patricides must be taken to tho scaffold with bare feet and veiled head Dtichcwln the condemned was 28 years old but tho livid face mlgh havo been that oFti man any age over GO It was tho face of a man without tho consciousness or feeling of any kind a man for whom tho bitterness ot death already had passed Dclblers aids seized the cloak and veil and conduQted tho condemned three paces between tho van and the machine laid him in place and tho knife fell Tho body was pushed Into a basket Within 15 seconds from tIme time tho prison van stopped the knife had fallen |