Show TO effir HIDE I 1 D E guillotine E bill Is before french parliament to abolish publicity spectacle of red widow and her victims in streets of paris being opposed by many as conducive to crime parts paris the death of criminals upon a guil guillotine lotinA set up in tho the street in full view of the public may soon be abolished in france A bill for the tha repeal of the law providing tor for public executions odthe of the death sentence Is now pending in the chamber of deputies I 1 it Is a therefore probable thit that when the three and possibly tour four beads of the notorious bandits ok of the bonnot band of outlaws aro are chopped oft off by the red widow as the french call the guillotine the gory spectacle may bo ba given in private should that be the case the motor bandits would tie the first to benefit by the new law public be headings are intended to inspire awe the would be assassin Is supposed to see tho the terrible end of fellows such as he be and retrain refrain from committing the deed the reverse of tho the picture Is said by many to bo be true the hardened criminal usually meets his doom in a way that inspires other of his bis stamps stamp with the notion that he is a real hero for public be headings furnish occasion tor for the exhibition of a certain kind of bravado which has a strong appeal to the desperado type senator de chau chan mie one of the leaders orthe of the public beheading abolition movement so says adding that not only are such scenes disgusting beyond expression but demoralizing in the extreme Be headings now take place at sunrise the condemned man man is s ke kept pt in ignorance of the date of hip death until be is awakened to have bavo his final toilet made for the knife until that moment he has hopes of executive hemenc Ie it ft being the invariable rule to ask ehrl president as a last resort to use his and show mercy the scene usually is in some street near the prison in which the man is the narrower and more brooked crooked that street the tha better since tho the authorities desire as few of the rabble as possible to see the blade fall all scores of police and a large number of troops on foot and a harse h r e keep the crowds back and ad on ih the e newspaper men and P prison ason chaplain ha plain are grouped about the base of the guillotine when several persons are headed beheaded be they are brought out of the prison one it a time the last to die not seeing he others meet their fate the criminal Is tied to a sort of block which pivots in the middle he la Is given a push he falls horizontal and the trl tri angular blade descends the head bead rolls into a basket on one side the body is dumped into a similar but longer receptacle on the other then the carcass la is carted away at a gallop while the bead he admans nans assistants wash the guillotine with hu huge ge sponges which they wring out in palls of water they azal this making the widows toilet tor for her next husband much of this sickening night eight as pos bible is hidden bidden from the public which remains passive or becomes demonstrative stra tive according as to whether the man is an ordinary criminal or popular or much disliked if hau hated cries of A mort and drath to the murderers darers are heard as the knife falls senator chauble Is against hiding biding the guillot lab up a narrow street or blind alley in a speech before the senate he be said ho he favored abolition of the tag guillotine as a P exhibition but until the government should make the necessary laws lawa beheading should take place in the broad open day and la in the most crowded squares to be found if the death to Is to bo ba made public said then let it be really pub uc have hare it where all may sea ea it ile ho guarantees that it if this a rule rulo be fa followed everybody would be so sickened at the sight there would be little opposition to private be headings |