People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — SENTENCED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

The Trial at Lyons of President Caruot s Assassin. Lyons, Aug. 4. —Cesario Santo., President Carnot’s assassin, was placed on trial in the assize’s court. M. Breuillac presided over the court. The prisoner's account of his actions was given with brutal coolness. The assassin replying to a question by M. Breuillac, if he did not know the penalty of his act would be death: “1 am an anarchist, and I hate the bourgeois, society and the heads of the state.” Lyons. Aug. G.—lt took the jury only fifteen minutes to agree upon a verdict. The verdict was “guilty without extenuating circumstances,” and immediately after 'the reading of it the presiding judge pronounced the sentence of do ith by the guillotine.