Painful Scene at an Execution
Eugene Crampton was guillotined in Paris on December 16th for the murder of two men who were pursuing him as he was running away from a wineshop which he had iust plundered. The execution, which took place in the morning, was one of the most horrible witnessed in Paris for many years, the culprit, as soon as his eyes caught sight of the guillotine when the procession emerged from the prison, fell to the ground in abject terror, and grovelled on the flagstones, begging piteously for a respite. He became so limp that the executioner's assistants had to take him up and carry him to the place of execution. He continued to struggle and shriek while they bound him to the plank and placed his head beneath the knife, and he only ceased when the head rolled into the basket. It was a rare treat to the ribald crowd who saw it, a crowd made, up of the criminal element of Paris men and women.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 14 February 1893, Page 4
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170Painful Scene at an Execution Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 14 February 1893, Page 4
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