Painful scene at an Execuion.
♦_ . ■ Eugene Crampt -n wa9 guillotined in Paiis on December 16 th for the murder of two men who were pursuing him as he was running away ' from a wineshop which he had just i plundered. The execution,- which took plac3 in the morning, was iohe of the most horrible witnessed ■in Paris for many years. The. culprit, as soon as his eyes caught sight of the guillotine when the prooessibh emerged from the prison, fell to the ground in abject terror, \ l ah7l grovelled on the flagstones, .begging piteously for a respite. He. became so limp that the executibneer'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 j criminal element of Paris men and women.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1893, Page 2
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175Painful scene at an Execuion. Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1893, Page 2
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