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Carnot's Death Avenged

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
August
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Li 0X8, France, Ana. 17.- Anarchist Santo, the a.ssss.-.n oí PresideDt Carnot, R'us guilmtined in ihe -quare in front of tbe prisou bere. Smlo was led out of his cell by the guards. He treinbled as he emerged frora tbe prion and had to be assisted to the scaffold. Hi fi:ce was deadl; palé. As lie ñas being ÍHStened dowu he cried: "Vive l'Anarchie!" His Ueatli wa instantaneous. There was no ud usual deuioustration. The exetution was witnessed by a great number of people. The wiudows in the vicinity were crowded with ladies who were dressed iu fasbionable toilets. The roof tops aud every place of vantage were thronjied with people. Fubulous prices were paid for plaees in the windows overlookiug tbe spot selected for the executiou. Tuii was tbe open space at tbe junction of Rue Smitb and Rue Coursuohet w th the prison on oue side, the gendarmes barracks on another, a larce wall the third, while the Rue Smith was barricaded about seventy metres from vvhere the guillotine "as erected. This barricade was uai-ded by a squadron of cnirrassiera aud another detacmnent was statioued iu Kue Coursuchet. Four hundred men of the Niuetyeitthth regiment of the line in addition to 500 pólice and gendarmes, formed a cordon around the place of execution.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News