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heard’s Nerve. Unshaken gh It All and Serenely Faces Guillotine. Dec. 2—The curtain has fallen on tho trial of Henri Desire taindiru, leaving only his head to fall ‘On the guillotins a winter morn- 4 the near futuro in the public master murderer has been to death whjle stil pro- his innocence. last scene came after the most day of all the twenty-throo bf the trial. The day was divided up twren a five-hour impassioned $ ch for the defense by Maitre " | Moro-Gilaftert and four hours of if for the verdict.. During the period the scene in court was Deyond description. jes of furred and jewelled Appreineon sat on the tops of benches with their soldier, or law- or journalist escorts, smoking ‘wine, eating pate de fois gras hes, while the court room ‘with shrill feminine laughter, out of every hundred in the room were women, and one it the explanation te that ‘hey are more crue! than men. Fey fwere present, save those who be there, All the women were ing the probabilities of the id whether Landru is @ or only a sordid murderer. air thickened with cigarette "elgar smoke. As time passed the in the room became almost un- ie. The walls and ceilings ‘ It was like the hot room in “@)Durkish bath. Many women cov- ered: thelr heads with protecting erchiefs, However, the pretti- m in Paris stood twelve | hours “of this, although the constant of ether and brandy proved that ‘times they were near collapse, a. “hold, back the crowd, | G,, expected, would surge of three rows of n across the centre of the room, “1¢ was @ truly Parisian drama for callousness and dis>egard the fact that a human life was Paris. The eating, drinking and r it, while throu a little door ten yards away a human “ein awaited to heaf ‘bis fate, sug- ‘Reated the atmosphere of the Coll- #eum or a bullzing, No respect for court remained, he surprise of the last day was the Gee hie al by eye Moro- eee nt had sent hii way in white iave jands. The lawyer Landru ssiigutest the veil on the mystery, con- to look jt ahead, more ved could have been staged cnly | { ‘ever like a death mask, while randed as an infamous scoun- the only chance to escape th But as his counsel made women’s praDg a second lawyer, who ly denounced in abom- reflection on the dead ones he represeated. ir home ties and had left home et their own: fre€ will, Why should come forward now to face shame aa iad wage a rropanty, 0 argued, woman Nolting. back in mel beltot that et her fellow victims would come hundred apd eighty women bad in France in the last two Where were they? Three 97 ‘women referred to Landru’ had never been evan re. ‘with their murder? Many women were of the fraitest gharacter and, Moro-Glafferi asserted, that Landru, who had he after each supposed murder, conducted them to brothels As for his possessing their Papers—thousands of y should he not be bly anpoeiens for two ton had travelled away without rden possibly had yn-€ the neighborin,, p Aa ij frequently ocourred 1 t veer might have been sensational ap rae Se as its presence had never by the police after thar it few vearchos of the villa, most re in. court @ beautiful’ ‘was seated on al Portia, below “Blue- “and who repeatedly denoted al of the line of defense, E. uring | Ee face during the whole howg hear- He pred ahead as if in a trance one of wi he came only once at the ning, when he smiled sadly at the loud murmur from the women that sreeted him, recaiting to mind the tricoteuses of the French Revolution, who, knitting, kept count of the heads Ag they fell in the basket, “Another day and I wouldn't be able to get a seat myself,” Landru told an attendant, as he surveyed the eager erowd. As ne approached the end of his argument, Moro-Giafferi emphasized that it was impossible to find a verdict of murder unless the body of one whom Landru was alleged to have stain was Produced He challenged the evidence of the experts and cited @ case in which @ skeleton, solemnly reburied popes bat child, the Mem a a beef itrage, subsequently prov: to be that of a monkey. As for the idea that Landru burned the women in vis tiny peep ed $30 worth of ever been traced to him. Nor fad fh used petrol. It took three daye to incinerate 1 the Cxar’s family with petrol and to do it requi: three times as much petrol as Landru had bought In five years. Theh Landru was ssked by the Judge it he had anything to say. ee arr as calmly as ever: junsel bas | pate ome «many vices and crim of family. On the heads of my chil- er I swear I never killed @ living The jury then withdrew, having been given a list of fifty-two crimes, murder, theft, or swindling, to g've ® decision on each. The extraordl- nary interlude of four hours of ft» ing and merriment began ttisatll the Tamps flickered above Landru’ ving the last touch of ‘a to the scene. Wine,. cigars and cigarettes were taken out and,! confronted by the flashing eyes of famous Paris beauties, one felt that all that was lacking was some inci- dental music. As hour after hour’ went by, sug- gesting that the jury might not agrve, the tension increased and, In view of the surging throng ottsitle, the cor- don of soldiers was thrown across the court. At 10 o'clock at night came the end. In tense etillne: ie prisoner was brought in, swaying on his feet, look- ing ghastly beneath the arc lamps, while a battery of eatonrenbere took his picture. The verdict was uttered: | “Guilty on forty-nine of the fifty-| two counts.” “HH you anything Landru?” asked the Judge. ing,” said Landru, calmly, turned to say @ consoling word to b's counsel, who was near collapse. —_—>—— BRITISH SAVED BAHA’S LIFE. LONDON, Dec, 2.—Abdul Baha, Abbas ec! Bahai, leader and prophet| of the Bahaist sect, who died at Haifa Monday, leaves no heir and in future | the Bahaists will be led by a council} of twelve, whose names are not yet | known here. Abdul, who was the third prophet of Bahaism, will be buried with his father at Mount Carmel. Shoghi Rabbani, bis grandsen, who has been studying at Oxfor. returning Im- mediately to Haifa, and it is learned to-day that the British Government will be officially represented at the funeral. One of the best friends of the prophet in London was an officer in Lord Allenby’s army when Haifa was captured from the. Turks. The World to-day that the capture, resulting from a surprise attack, was made just in time to save Abdul and his family from being crucified by the Turks, who fled before they were able to carry out the execution, to —__—— NYCNA ELECTION. At the annua! meeting yesterd: the Nycna Society, composed of members of the New York City » Association. the following were elected to serve one year: Presid h;_ Vice President. James secretary. Willan Cox fames E, ‘Hardenbergh, ’. Morris, Anna Daly, | Sullivan and’ Joseph A’ | LDING SAFEGUARD. The Executive Committee of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and vicinity in aj meeting last night, at Beethoven Hall, 210 Fifth Street, drew up & requ that effective enacted to license and examine ‘a bullding contractors. The law would be designed to prevent di ters such that in’ Brooklyn a few day ‘a touch at the back of the neck and} | with all other Frenchme | what his name might be. It comes of {the tact | where, in frock coat and silk hat he, | cences—certainly there is nothing legislation | ‘|When the Guillotine Claimed Its Most Celebrated Victim, Marie Antoinette (Reproduced from an Ol4 Print.) MARK BEHEADI * 7 When the time -¢omes for Henri Landru} the “Bluebeard of Gamtats" to repay the State with his own life for those of the ten women who gia- appeared from hie villa, he will walk to the guillotine in the footprints of a king and a queen, of princes, of statesmen and of great and alluring courtesans, is But, @ingularly enough, the cere. mony that of hi jl be conducted with ®} beam punstdieusnad, @ gruesome pomp far more impressive ‘than that which marked the end of even Louis XVI. and his brilliantly ffivolous wife, Marie Antoinette, They were simply weheaded while the knitting sat by and counted their atitohes, not even dropping one as the blade felt. It was, truly, all in tke day’s work ‘with them. On the other hand, when Landru's time comes he will be surrounded by functions in\ most proper froc's coats and top hats. There will be a strong guard of troops about the ” ig part of the formality ion. The whole thing will Olt “according to Hoyle, with studied adherence to “form. ‘Phe only thing Landra will share with the king and tho queen will be that thrilling instan: that measures the difference betwee; life anc death, the 1 nt when nia acute ears wilj catch the. click the button as “‘Mensieur de Paris presses it and the sigh of the weightsd ' blade as it comes down the guides, hen-snothing. : andre. probably knows all about this last bit of ceremoniousness that is in-store for him, He, in common has heard | of “Monsieur de Paris” ever since | he was a child because this offic this State headsman, is as much of a tradition as he is a reality. He h been knpwn as “Monsieur de Pari for inr&imerable years, no matter that his headquarters— there's something apt about the wora are in Paris. But it is his task to journey throughout the Republic, to any city, even to Algiers in Africa, in which there is a crime to be expiated, set up his deadly apparat —La veuve de Monsieur de Paris, his “widow’—press the button, see that the thing gets a good scrubbing afterward ‘and then go home again until another is led forth to pay the State what has been decreed is owing it. ‘he headsman Paris will nev t is Deibler, the old “Bourreau, e was known, who for thirty-five yeare guillotined the prisoners ‘that France sentenced to death. He was a benevolentlooking old gentleman, with decorous, snow-white side whiskers. He retired from his un- enviable post after cutting off more than 160 heads, four of his victims being women. ‘As he had been an gssistant execu- tioner in his youth, and as he had married the daughter of a head ex- ecutioner, a preceding “Monsieur de Paris,” it seemed only fitting that his son should succeed him at his post beside the upright of the guillotine too, would press the little button that meant one less life in the world. Perhaps a headsman cannot be, said to have very cheering remini endear him to his) work—and this may be the reason that when he turned the task over to his son, old his own throat as he had seen scores of others served, But the razor he used was @ull or his hand was too feeble, and the effort failed, It lett | him still more hours to spend with the haunting faces of those for whom Be had pressed the deadly little but- on. The instrument over which he so ——_——— TWO FIRES NEAR ONECO, (Seal to The Evening World.) *0, Cont., Dec. 2.—The hone of Woodward, in Lisbon, was de- deepest Ai than five paces from took hour, and stand- Landru, her eyes ‘Ot him for |; +troyed by fire ai with all « the house and long presided has had a place in French history since it was intro- | duced during the Revolution by .the Convention. named after ite supposed inventor ing a more humane moti tion than that by the axe, sometimes the axeman was nervo lor careless or devilish and took two PUNCTILIOUS CEREMONY WILL Sh peffoune the Topping aft | Poste womea UD’ Deibler tried to kill himself, to ay r, Joseph Ignace | NG OF LANDRU BY THE GRUESOME GUILLOTINE| Not Even Executions of Louis XVI. and Marie | Roose Antoinette Were More Correct as to ‘‘Form’— Decapitating Machine and “Monsieur de Par-|* is” and His “Widow” Have a Weird History. strokes to his victim. As a matter of fact, Dr. Guillotin merely sus- se the use of the device known he Maiden, but afterward dubbed with his name in its ene termination. The invention he de- vice is ascribed to the Pe as early as the thirteenth century Italian nobles were privileged to re- bert execution»by 4 machine of this ‘The device consists of two upright rising to» height ot about| 7h ope feet, surmounted by a cross- grooved so as to guide an sre een ag knife, the back of whieh is weighted with 120 pounds of to make it fall swiftly. The blade is held in place at the cross- beam and released by pressure of the Hae button cn the side of one of the hts, "After experimentation upon several, cadavers at the Hospital of Bicetre, bon) guillotine was first used in France mn April 25, 1792, for the execution of the notorious highwayman Pelletier in the Place de Greve, Paris. When first used the appayatus was chris- tened the Parisian's “Loulsette” or “La Petite Louison,” but as the mind of the people gradually reverted to Dr, Guillotin {t was cailed guillotine, | °% ak popularly and later officially. or not death by the device was in. stantaneous, and in support of the negative side of the discussion the case of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Marat, was cited. It was claimed that her cheeks blushed as with in- £\dignation when the executioner, hold- img her head aloft for the benefit of ‘the crowd, struck it with his fist. Frquentiy it has been stated that Dr. Guillotin perished by the device | which bears his name, but it has now been established beyond any doubt that he survived the French Revolu- tion and died in bed in 1814. The teen years ago, to have the guillotine done away with and another form of execution substituted, What was ac- complished was the abolishment of the death penalty in 1907, but it was revived in 1909 and the guillotine eame back with it, ‘The preparation of a-murderer for the guillotine has undoubtedly, its moments of exquisite harrowins. ‘They begin for him when a function- ary enters his cell and after a few preliminaries says, “Your last hour is There was a time when the state demanded that the victim should go to his death in the clothing he wore at the time he committed hi: Whether this will be done in case is problematical, since rged with killing ten women at ten different times. If the victim desires to have a mass said for him this is granted him, and after that he is asked what he desires crime. ettes are alike have what he Reb pca within reason. Next he 1 not on the face. however, but on vine back of the skull —~ = neck, it being held that a hal can interrupt the progress ‘hted knife. ail painted » gruesome red, in order that ibe biood ef its victim may not show too readily upon it. In front of the apparatus is a stout plank held vertical but affixed at its centre after the manner of a Tt reaches from the murderer's breast to bis f as he is tightly strapped to It. Between the two upright po: their base, is a thick piece of wood | with a narrow semicircle cut out of it. This is the “lunette,” the half- ‘| — ie throat of the pri: been carefully conm- puted & to th size of his neck: before- hand, to his collar size, one might say. With the prisoner bound, all is in readipess to tip him forw: on the see-saw, his neck comes into the lu- nette, he lies at full length, face |down, “Monsieur de Pa: tands at the side of the upright. He looks at victim, presses the button and all is over. The knife blade has dropped, the head tumbles off into a metal box, out jof sight. On the cther side of the ma- chine is a wicker basket filled with bran, In this the boy is placed ati has been unbound t complete. Now come men in blue cotton blouses scrubbing brushes, re and | French Government tried, about fif- c ) Lyric ‘players to Ay. Theodore Roosevelt. ‘To-morrow afternoon at lock. P. B. A. L, basketball season of Bronx will open when Morris High the the School and Evander Childs High School meet at Starlight Park Basketball Court, 177th Btreet and Boston Road, The line- up for the Theodore Roosevelt team will be: Forwards, Aeoole cA rhe Mies ute Greenfield, fi Commerce. At the end of a hard season, the Com- merce eleven re-elected Moe Levine cap- tain for 192% Besides Levine at tackle, Bob Golden, centro; Julte Alkott, tsekie; Al | Lipschitz, tackle and Ted Schimofaky, dal will remain, Raft will re ala, who | graduates, ‘ach for next year, games rasmus oHall having been added tothe achedule. five will t ight ct the City, Col- 10-n at - rime, neend Harris Hall. liné-up: I. Conon, centre; Jacobs, right, for Ramebtsld, left forward ni substitutes, Ackerman and Castronova. ‘The Midget basketball team has re- organized under the leadership of Conch Regard. The following have been chose to represent the school: Habinowtts, ntre; Lewis, left, forward; Gla forward: canine ons guard: tutes, Feffer, Moglin, first ‘game is with Perry “Athletic cus of the fics Club, Dec. 6. The nine has elected mmerce Arthur “Briek™ Btark ‘Captain’ of the team for i902, Stark has, played with the baseball team for years. He treed for. Commerce, in. the -outtield in the Chi game of 1920 and played second for the team last year. The Commerce Mermen will meet morrow mae st the Cofarabte Pool to- del and “Mandel Barrerre and fnenriettn and Foander Chitas. } To-morrow afternoon at the Starlight Amusement Fark, the Evander Childs basketball team plays against Theodore vel! The espe 9 for Bvand Captain, right forward; Whit left forward; Van de Weghe, centre; me lett guard, and Pistchal, right ‘At the Columbia Pool the swimming team will meet De Witt Clinton. If the Bronx school wins, it will have a record of nine won and’none lost. The fol- jowing will awim,for Evander: 6 yards, Bachman and Meyer; 100 yard: Farrar and L. Farrar; 220 yards and MacGow: ards Baker and Cheve; fanoy salves. rela; bu Mayelt "Breltman ‘and ‘Sundum. fle team will compete’ to-mor- row against all the other hyeh scheohe city in the preliminary meet to hich schools may com rm 1 pounery mee' 10 jetermine may compet in the annual fall indoor champlonshine er couvaes ousselot, month. e preli me beheld at the pee MAthtetle Fic, members of the manor team are: Brownshield, Capt Dunn, Miller, Herbert, Sat acstay vad Kalin. The Morris soces n to-morrow at 2F hw will ban at the C. Bhapiro, inside right: Roseff, inside ett Myrowitz, right end; Levine, left endy Ginaberss cen! rit, right half; Brodsky, run- Ping full; Bosteuse standing full; Wald- man, goal. Whe chess team will play Commercial at the Manhattan Chess Club at 10 A. 4. ‘The Morris players are: Roman, tirst board; Halpern, second board; Stsin- erg, third board; Prenowlts, fourth ard, ‘The basketball team will meet George ington at Starlight Park, at forwards, Samuelson a penain as guards will represent Mo: ‘To-day the rifle team shoots against Boys’ High at Morris at 3 P. M. Th following boys ‘will shoot for Morris: Mortimor, Riddell, ers, Blum, Bee: thoven and Sohon poh ES TOO STRONG FOR PLAYERS. Little Wife” Sends Stock Company om Strike. | ASBURY PARK, N. 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