THE EXECUTION OF PRANZINI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE EXECUTION OF PRANZINI.

I Ji j.'i'J j; uws COHHWijShKST.I t'.MH', Augu*t3l. | Fi»h the 114 t‘,*n Ttys tv» ry thing faded ; aw.iv liHkuv Uie attraction* <T the i mtird.-rer Fnnzini, who tv.i- .•ruMviaueil | t» dvath l»y the jury -1 the S-inv ii')W 17 j d i)> aj- •. 11- <li-d i!ii- morning on the ! guiilrtmc at 7* o*J o'clock. horrible ■ '*x-«Mjt j««u wr n 5 witii.---.-il hv jM-wral j lhou*.iial jH-ojile. He m i<ie no couf* >A>jU. i It u-;:S *o]e.nu work uraitintr in the Place de Li li**.juc!te. i a.- feeble glimmer of ;t doxeji lnnj-s >h* d a «h-nal light 1 uj» in ih- cio'.v 1 j*& —anup and down iu front <*f the prison. Tue trve* which dot the pi ice were till*-! with people who d- tied the iiijuiictijn* of the pdice to I •* cauis* down out of that.** Here and j there were r«nvs *>f we iry tramps curled up u>leop tii*ain't the w.dl or <»n benche.*. Kvi-ry now and then a frv-h ganj of Ua would arriv«* f Mv«-.irii»ir t sai'kimr and To while away | the lim *, t . r“w 1 inch* ov*-t.-wml excursions r*iU!.d th** earner, where M. lie: Wit, tie- exeentioiivr, dc j Paris, ireteTilly tilled, and his dread I hid hv«n cleaning the guiUotifel during the* evening. Ov< r and over a jiiiu the police i*w<*pi I lie nub from the plice, hut they poured hack like a .-urging sea. The y.ru*.*, hi the glo<aa and niysteiv of thy night, wits almost in its honor. It may have been iialf-p-*.>t tw<dv*\ or u trifle later when the clink of sibres and tho rattle of horses' hoof.s on the rough pavement Jinn mii'v-d the amvj! of the njotinled (Juries cK* Paris, and one knew that the l inj trairedy would soon be over. This lime there was no nun*env». With the-e reinforcements to hick them, the police m ideipiick work of these refractory vagabonds. Between two and three a iuuJJl *J roll of wheels was hoard, and the excitement grew painful. Then from the Hut* de* Kalies-Kejnaiilt a c in came rambling over the stones, laidcii with wo >d work. At the entrance to the little avenue faciiu* the gates, the vehicle halted. Oat of it stepped the dim figures of the executioner, and his assistants. The end was very, very near now. over in the east the sk}* was growing lighter, as the prison chaplain. Abbe Faure, entered the la Regatta prison, and vanished for a time from view. The venerable priest was urging Prnuzmi to mike peace with heaven by confession. Then, at last, the suspense ended. Pr.mzini ivas seen issuing from the prison door with the executioner. Before him walked theehapUin. The condemned man looked ghastly pile. His dit-ss, of course, was the u-unl *'..}< i< t }/-• r^ H ,{.uuut —shirt and trouseit only, tiie shirt cut down at the neck, and the head and face shaved. Idelder :nl hi** assistant offered to support the pi isoikt, hat he tmned and siil hiughiily. and walked

with a lien, step to the guillotine. At ill- guillotine j,-- pallor was ,-v-n lino-a;e. n.-nt. Tie- p;:-s,t gave him tin- ,-nn-di-,. i t kiss, mi l wail*- b ,‘aing it in ins inn ! hj - niutinaiei, ' .!• * ■ » i .ni." H ki-s-sl the eru.-ifU and th -n the priest. Me was lb*.-n -i-/--l by Iteiblvr, and his-i-si-t nit. fastsc*-! to the pl ink, and thr-wa forty ird. Ait- r hi-i.-1.1 was in ihe thne wa- a

sick-iiing d--biv of s : x seconds, whb-h seemed an age. The knife then fell with that thud one,.- h-a:-! never to h-forgot-

ton, A sport o: bb-o-l, a b-a 1 f ills into a bask, I. the knife rebounds I’fanz a expiated his i-rim-.