Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — DEATH FOR VAILLANT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH FOR VAILLANT

PARIS BOMB-THROWER DIES BY THE GUILLOTINE. Aroused from Sleep and Executed Within Twenty Seconds —Great Excitement In tke French Capital Over the Execution —Ho Showed Wonderful Nerve. DU Head In the Basket. With the cry of “Death to the bourgeoisie! Long live anarchy!* Auguste Vaillant, the anarchist who threw the

bomb in tho French Chamber of Deputies, raid the penalty of his crime. He was awakened by the officers at 7 o'clock in the morning and told to prepare lor death. He appeared to be surprised, and begaa to reiterate the theories he advanced befoi e the Assize

court. Ho declared that though it was easy to suppress him, it was impossible to suppress anarchistic ideas. “My body is nothing,” he added, “compared with tho progi ess of principle-. I shall be revenged.” Vaillant was perfectly calm and displayed no fear whatever. As he appeared outside the prison everybody bared their heads and the troops presented arms. Vaillant advanced steadily. When about eighty yards out-ide the prison he sprang forward a little to shout: “Death to the bourgeoisie;” long live anarchy." It bus teen customary for the executioner's assistants to push the condemned criminals against the plank, but as Vaillant reached it he sprang forward and placed himself against it. The plank dropped und Valllant's neok slipped under the glistening knife, and the moment he was in position Deibler touched tho spring. There wus a flash

at tho heavy knife dosoendod, and anarchist Vaillant wus deiul. f Hotwoon tho tlmo of Vuillant’s arrival at the guillotine and the closing of the basket containing his romaina scarcely more than twenty second* elapsed. Deibler, tho oxocutionor, who lias roeeivod many lottors threatening him with death if ho oxeeuted Vaillant, and who at one tlmo wished to resign his position rather than to nut the anarchist to death, appeared paler and more nervous than Vaillant. Within two minutes after tho knife fell Vaillant’s body was takon to the Ivry cemetery.

VAILLANT.

VAILLANT READING HIS ADDRESS TO THE JURY.