People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Was Dead Before the Knife Fell. [ARTICLE]

Was Dead Before the Knife Fell.

Paris, May 23.—Dr. Bernoit, one of the faculty of the Ecole de Medicine, after a thorough examination of the body of Emile Henry, the anarchist who was beheaded yesterday morning, expresses his opinion that Henry was already dead when the knife fell. Bernoit believes that the anarchist died from syncope, due to intense excitement before the knife was released.