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HORRORS OF THE GUILLOTINE. How Criminals Go to Meet Death Under the Knife?It Un? nerves the Bravest of Them?Stimulants Are Always Forced Upon Condemned Unfortunates to Brace Them For the Qrdeal. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer.) j Paris, Aug. 30.?I have Just seen a man escape the guillotine. It was ten minutes after the news came to him that the death penalty had been com? muted to transportation, and the In? effably joy, peace and satisfaction that, welling up from this criminal's black heart to transfigure his ugly counte? nance into something almost beautiful, left no doubt In our minds as to the superior.terrors of capital punishment. This French murderer was simply de? lighted to go to the penal settlement of Cayenne for life. He knew hard work and brutal treatment waited for him there. Still he was joyful. He had escaped the guillotine! It. was by accident that we saw him at the moment when the prison barber was clipping his- hair and mustache into conformity ifvith the regulation bareness of the other prisoners. We were being shown through the Santo Prison and had come to the hospital like section of "the old men." where the discipline is not strict. Hoary old vllllans there pass uneventful days en? gaged In swapping tales of fraud, thievery and violence. As wc stood thero a new man was brought In?a young man, attended by two guards, who paid singular attention to him. Then they hastened In the prison gov? ernor, attended by the barber, and immediately the whisper went around that this was Salle, the notorious as? sassin, in whose favor President Lou bet had exercised his clemency. The barber started to work expedltiously. We sent up our request to the gover? nor for permission to stay a moment longer. Salle, a burly, good-natured Blouch-looklng assassin, seemed unable to get over the excitement of his re? prieve. He talked Incessantly. In a half-whisper, boasting of his plans for a new life In a new land. NEWS OVERCAME HIM. "When Monsieur le Dlrccteur entered his cell this morning," one of the guards whispered to us, "Salle was playing cards with us, nervous, petu? lant, without Interest. When he saw the Dlrccteur ho rose, tottering. 'Salle,' said the Intter, 'your sentence Is com? muted.' At these words the prisoner seemed to be tnken 111. His face be? came congested with blood and his words choked In his throat. He broke Into sobs. Then he fainted. He Is talkative now, but you ought to have seen him at the first moment. He must have been terribly afraid of the big knife!" The prison guardian, recently trans? ferred from the Grand Rouquette, had been on the death watch of many a oondemned criminal. "They are all alike." he told us afterward. "The moment they enter the condemned cell after sentence thoy arc prey to a pro? found prostration which lasts several days, sometimes a week. Little by lit? tle, however, their energy wakens, and the hope of a commutation?which wc try to raise In their breasts?begin to dull the effects of the death sentence." Tt seems that It Is particularly the duty of the priest to Jolly the unfor? tunate. " How does he persuade them they are going to bo reprieved?" we asked. "Oh, he talks about the possibility of the sentence being quashed by the Court of Cassation," was the answer; "cases of the same kind he has known where the culprit got off on a techni? cality. Then he goes on to the sec? ond chance of Presidential clemency, the great proportion of pardons of late years, and the well-known hu? manity of M. Louhet. But chiefly he takes It for granted that the worst to be expected Is transportation for life, and paints a glowing picture of a new career In Cavenne, where one may become an Independent farmer In time with good behavior. The miser? able fellows nrc only too wining to I believe him. They hold on to life like a drowning man to a hencoop. DAYS PASS PLEASANTLY. "Their 'days often pass agreeably enough while waiting for the commu? tation." continued the prison guardian, "because they have wine, tobucco, playing cards and two of us constantly with them to amuse them, but their nights are wretched. When sleep comes at'last. It la agitated and feverish. Sometimes they stay up late In order to wake up late In the morning. It is Impossible. They always wake, with a frightened shock, about daylight, at the hour they Imagine the execution ought to take place." The French plan Is to give no notice of the impending execution. Weeks pass and the prisoner is lulled into a false sense of security. "Tho last one I watched," this guardian told me, "had I an accomplice who developed mental eccentricities during the trial. By rea? son of this my man made a completely false calculation with regard to his own fate. He kept saying that noth? ing could be decided for three weeks, the time necessary to examine Into the mental state of the other. Yet a few days after making this comforting dis? covery he was taken out one morning to have his head cut off." Another did his best to persuade the guardian to tell him the moment his appeal for clemency had been rejected. "My friend,", said the guardian, "you will learn that only at the laBt mo? ment, when they announce to you your commutation or your Immediate execu? tion." "But I want to know a few days In advance," said the prisoner, "In order to write some letters." "Humanity refuses that aggravation of your misery," was the formal an? swer of the formal-minded French? man. THE FATEFUL MORNING. When the fateful morning arrives scarcely fifteen minutes elapse between the reception of the news and the fall? ing of the wretch's head. The guillo? tine already has been erected In the gray dawn. The prisoner may be doz? ing fitfully. The heavy key turns In the lock, the bolts shoot and the door opens. The prisoner jumps from his couch to see the Directeur standing there tn company of the priest, two ex? ecutioner's assistants and other func? tionaries. "Be brave." he says, calling the pris? oner by name. "Your appeal has been rejected by the Court of Cassation, and your prayer for commutation has not been granted. The moment for ex? piation has come. Have courage! Dress yourself!" The majority are so dazed that they dress and move about mechanical!} This guard remembered one frightful ense of resistance, however. It was the case of Gaspard and Mayer, two vlllians who deliberately assassinated a rich old Paris shop-keeper. Mayer's sentence had been commuted, and It was Gaspard alone whom the directeur had to awaken that morning. The first question of Gaspard was: "Is Mayer to die with me?" "My friend," said the priest, "the minutes are too precious to think of others than yourself." ? "But. It's Infamy!" cried Gaspard. "Mayer Is more guilty than I am!" A horrible scene then took plnce. Gaspard. knocking one of the guards senseless with a blow straight from the shoulder, threw himself on the Di? recteur of tho prison and succeeded In biting his oar. It took four men to drag him from the cell. They dressed him as best they could In the corri? dor. The prison doctor having been sent for hastily, was begged to do something to prevent a scandal?for the execution, like all others at that time, was to take place In public. "It did not take him long to give Gaspard a hypodermic," said the guard, telling the story. "Whatever It was, morphine SKETCHED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD IN QAIVESTON. TTiese picture*, which are taken from the first photographs rccorred from Galveston, show two of the methods used in ?j?B??iS? oi itl? tkouaflufis^of dead. The^cr?ioB wero bu;;n?d or taken out to tea or buried where they were found. or hyocene or some other stupeflcr, It had an almost Instant effect on the ruffian. "He became 'dopey.' and seemed to be stupidly happy, walking In a kind of trance. They clipped his hair and cut his shirt collar. 1 think the priests protested against drugging htm in his last moments, when he ought to bo making his peace with God: but how does a hypodermic differ from drug? ging them with brandy, as they nearly always do?" This is another French humanity, a real one. it must be admitted, though somehow offending Anglo-Saxon ideas. Why should not the wretch be allowed to work up a kind of "Dutch couruge" with unlimited brandy? Because, as the priest argued. In the case of a more obscure drug he ought to have his head clear in the last supreme mo? ment. Well, the French believe In giv? ing brandy, nevertheless. It aids the victim to walk out in good style. I asked this guardian about it and he told me: "We don't wait for them to ask It. The priest?the condemned man's bert friend?keeps him in tobacco and play? ing cards during the painful waiting between the death sentence and Its execution, and it is he who has charge of the bottle In the last moments. The last man I had?the one who was mis? taken in his calculations?drank a full goblet of rum while dressing. Then he asked to have a cigarette placed be? tween his lips and lighted. The priest, who had already confessed him. talked to him about his mother and brother, and exhorted him to rcpentence. " '1 have nothlfig to repent of.' lie an? swered, 'and I have no pardon to osk of any one on earth. We are square. Hut." he added. 'I would like another goblet of rum If human Justice per? mits it.' "He was already beginning to feel good. During the clipping of his huir and the cutting of his shirt-collar, he drank another goblet or rum. It so bouyed him up, that he walked firmly? almost gayly. you might say?to the guillotine, called out good-by to his friends In the crowd, took a last puff of his cigarette and gave up the ghost In good style. REFUSED TO DRINK. "I remember only one who refused to drink. It was the celebrated Eyr?ud. The Abbe Faure offered to him a gob? let of mixed cognac und chartreuse. "Take this, my friend." ho said: "it will give you force." 'No. thanks,' re? plied Eyraud; 'I don't want It. It will make me ill.' " The knowledge that the guillotln? Is the most merciful of all Instruments of death, gives Utile comfort to the victim. If they hnve cnouirh alcohol In them, they often stagger stupidly, upheld by the aids, the short distance between the prison and the guillotine. Just outside In the public square. When they stand beside It. however, they "come to" with n terrible shock. Thov nearly always struggle. The aids seize them by main force, stand thorn up ngalnst the swinclng-board. tie them to It, and then lower them with the board to n horizontal position, with the head under the big knife. This swing? ing-hoard is like n see-sa?v. Fixed in the middle it stands upright. After the victim Is tied to it. stand up. a simple tilt swings It to the horizontal position, so that there Is no climbing up and stretching out on a tahte, ns was the ease witb the early guillotine. Every one who has i;ccn on execu? tion la certain thnt the victim never knows what struck htm. None of the many experiments made with heads Immediately after severance, have suc? ceeded In discovering the slightest sign of consciousness Victims have agreed to wink their right for yes. their left eye for no, and so on. None has ever winked. "How could It he otherwise?" re? marked my well-Informed prison guar? dian. "I have heard the prison doctor explain It. The shock to the brain given bv the fnlllnc knife, produces Immediate como. Then, before the brnln In the ojit-off bend could even theoretically recover, it has lord all Its blood, so that no mental action can set up again." The victim being tilted <o the hori? zontal position, finds himself looking through what In low French slang is called "the little window." The neck reposes In a half circle of about Its diameter, cut In a stationary board between the two standards of the guil? lotine. When the fellow is got into Try for Health. Tathan, McDufTie Co., Ga., May t, 1900. I was reading your advertisement in the Ladies' Birthday Almanac and saw the wonderful Wine of Cardui prescribed. My health has been so bad for the past two or three years that I decided to try your Wine of Cardui. The first bottle gave me relief and now I am taking another bottle. 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It spurts nut rhythmically, as If being pumped. The Abbe Faure. in his book, however, mentions two cases in which there was none. Of the notorious Prado he says, categorically: "Not one spurt of blood:" Of the assassin Mathelin he says: "Not a drop of blood came out of the body!"?adding, as if in explana? tion, "Phthisis bad paralzed him some time hefore." The Abbe Faure, it is true, was no physiologist, and his book contains little beyond its valuable moral deflections; yet he could hardly have made a mistake of observation In so obvious n matter. The great diagonal blade, heavily weighted with lead, has a drop of fifteen feet. It slices off the head like snipping a piece of paper with scissors. There arc a few convulsive movements of the body?"purely reflex," the doc? tors say?and the victim Is as dead as Julius Caesar, one Is assured without a twlng of pain. In smaller places, when there is an execution, dramatic scenes often take place. What hapnened at Ornn. In Al? giers, the other day. is being used by the enemies of public executions as an argument against their morality. There had been a feud between a rich native I family and the family of some French colonists. One of the Moors assassi? nated one of the whites. At the mo? ment his head fell under the guillotine the murdered man's brother led bis lit? tle nine-year-old son close to the fal? len dead. and. pointing to It. said: "Look well on the head of your en? emy. You nre avenged." One of the latest victims of the guil? lotine in Paris, the young wretch Peulrrnltz. made a scandalous sensation by crying out to his brother criminals in the crowd his last snnreme ndvlco. the fruits of his too lately-acquired wisdom: "Never make a confession." The police had entrapped him into making a confession, otherwise he mi!rht easily have been acquitted. In? deed, there are so many nrsrnments aealnst public executions that It Is nrohahle the last has been seen In Paris. A project of law Is now hefore the Chamber of Dennttes to make ex? ecutions private. With Its nnsslng the terrible, century-long, scnndnlous spec? tacle of the death machine In France wdll end. LIFE IMPRISONMENT. ESCAPE OF WTFF. OF MURDERED ] MAN FROM JAIL" (By Telegraph to Virginian-Pilot.) Wrlghtsvllle. On.. Sept. 21.?Jerry I Waiden, a young white man. was this morning convicted of the murder of George Dixon and sentenced to life Im? prisonment. Mrs. Dixon, wife of the deceased and friend of Waiden, who | was to have been put on trial to-day as a principal In the same crime, made a sensational escape from custody be? tween midnight and daylight this I morning. She was in the personal charge of Sheriff Rowland, who lock? ed her in a room on the top door of j the court-house. There was only one key to the door of the room nnd that key was in the sheriff's pocket. Upon locking her In. shortly before midnight the sheriff sat down in a chair in front of the door. He fell asleep, ac? cording to his story, and when he awakened the woman was gone: hut the key was still in his pocket. V^4~ the mntter was reported to the court, the Judge ordered the grand Jury to make a rigid Investigation of the es? cape. A man named Hllson. a brother in-law of Mrs. Dixon, is known to I have been about the top floor of the court-house during the night. Mrs. Dixon was captured at the home of her brother-in-law and return? ed to jail. Her trial will come up to? morrow. [Horsford's Acid Phosphate NERVOUSNESS. A superior reotorative-when the ner? vous system has become impaired by mental or physical overwork. HAVB YOU Sora Throat, riaiplei. Cop. per-Colored bp01?, AohM, Old Bores. Ul? cer* la Mouth, Hair Palling? Write COOK RKMKDY CO.. H.r MASONIC TKUl'LIC, Chicago lit., f >r proofs of cur** Capital U00.000. W. solicit tha ?a-at obstinate ease*. W. have curad the fcmt cum Ii U U ? day* i?-B?4r? BERKLEY NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENTS CHARTER GRANTED. New Real Estate Company to Do Business Here. Now Slram Laundry Almost Renriy to Re? gln Work Proposuil Telegraph Office Still n Possibility lllg Coal Business Small Items o< Interest. Judge Prentis. of the County Circuit Court, through application of Attorney Oco. G. Martin, granted a charter i.i corporatlng the Real Estate and Ren? tal Company of Berkley. The capital stock Is to be $10,000 and the company is allowed to own and control 10.000 acres of land at a time. The company proposes to do a real estate, rental, insurance anil auctioneer business. The officers are: Messrs. A. H. Mar? tin, president; Geo. T. Tllley, secre? tary; C. L. Old, treasurer; Geo. G. Martin, R. S. Marshall and the above olllcers, form the Hoard of Directors. STICAM LAUNDRY. The steam laundry is nearly ready to begin work, it has been bought and [ re-ei|iilpped by Mr. R. \V. Brooks and will begin work some day next week. The repairs arc extensive. New ma? chinery, all of the most modern type, has been put in so that the laundry is practically new. There nre special machines for collars and cuffs, for shirts and for all classes of laundrylng. The name is the Berkley Steam Laun? dry and the location is on Chestnut street, south of Berkley avenue. This will be a home laundry, having a home collection and delivery. NEW TELEGRAPH OFFICE. Mr. J. Marvin Roberts, of Norfolk, who recently purchased the stock of cigars and tobacco In the Todd block. Is negotiating with the Western Union Telegraph Company looking to the es? tablishment of a telegraph office In the Todd block on Berkley avenue, nenr the postOffice. The place is a central location and the town wants tele? graphic, communications with the world and will offer every Inducement for the establishment of the ofllce. Mr. Roberts has had four, years' experience ns an operator, and was very success? ful until he was forced to give the bus? iness up on acocunt of his health. "Should ne he successful In establishing such nn ofllce he will receive a good patronage, as there Is no competing line In the town. BIG COAL BUSINESS. The coal business In Berkley among the locnl dealers has been greatly Stimulated by the news of the advance In prices In New York. Some of the lortil dealers are receiving a rush of orders, which they say can not be at? tributed to anything else but the pros? pective advance in prices, The prices are still remaining at $5.50, but just how long this will prevail is very un? certain from present indications. HEARD IN PASSING. The members of the Chestnut Slreet M. E. Church choir have begun prac? ticing music for the dedication service of the new M. E. Church, which will be completed soon. An order was placed yesterday for the carpets. It was learned yesterday that the Tunis and Greenleaf Johnson saw? mills thai have been closed down dur? ing the summer months will resume operations Monday with full forces. It was rumored yesterday that there was a movement among the wood dealers of the town to form what might be called a trust. Nothing could be learned to verify the report, as every wood dealer asked knew hothing of It. Mrs. James E. Ward, of Pocomoke City, Md.. is the guest of her brother. Mr. C. B. White, in Cedar Grove. Judge Parker and wife, jvho have been spending the summer at Chris? tiansburg, returned last evening. Mrs. W. L. Herkley and children re? turned from Camden, N. C yesterday, accompanied by her sister, Miss Kattie Ferrebee. who will spend several days here. Mrs. M. C. Keeling returned from Richmond yesterday, where she had been spending two weeks. Mr. Frank Rudd, who oame from New York a few days ago to spend some time with his people here, re? turned Thursday, accompanied by his mother. Mrs. W. S. Rudd, and sister in-law. Mrs. Ohas. Rudd. who will ?spend several weeks In the metropolis. Master George Cuthrell is quite sick at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cuthrell, on Rerklcy avenue. Now Is the time to secure fall shoes while Mr. H. L. West, our popular shoe dealer, has a brand now and well selected stock?the largest that he has ever offered In the town. He has re? duced the prices on his entire stock. Sec ad. CHURCH NOTES. Berkley Avenue Baptist Church, T. Clogett Skinner, pastor?Divine wor? ship at 11 a. m. and S p. m., conducted by the pastor. Morning subject, "Great In the Sight of God;" evening, "The Church at.d Her Critics." Bible school at 9:30 a. m. B. Y. P. U. Friday at 8 p. m., led by Mr. Ernest West. Armstrong Memorial Presbyterian Church. Rev. W. A. Slaymaker, pastor ?Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 0:30 a. m. Midweek service at 8 p. m. MR- BRYAN'S CANVASS. OF HIS OLD CONGRESSIONAL, DIS? TRICT. (By Telegraph to Vlrginlan-Pilot.) Weeping Water, Neb., Sept. 21.?Wil? liam Jennings Bryan to-day conducted a canvass of his old Congressional dis? trict. Ho left Lincoln at 9 o'clock. At Flmwood he took a carriage and drove twenty miles across the country to Syracuse, In Otoo county. Ho spoke to a largo assemblage of people there, and when he concluded he made another twenty mile drive to Weeping Water. Ho spoke here to-night to a large and attentive audience. The speech was addressed mainly to Republicans and was an appeal to them to consider the new questions presented In the cam? paign without regard to pnst party affiliations or prejudice. He paid especial attention to the increase of tho army and the Philippine question. Alabama's Covernor Goes Homo (By Telegraph to Vlrglnlan-Pllot) Concord, N. H., Sept. 21.?Governor Johnston, of Alabama, and his party, who have been the guests of the State of New Hampshire for the past five days, left here to-night on a special train for their homes. 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