GIBES AT THE GUILLOTINE

Evening Star, Issue 19143, 9 January 1926, Page 9

GIBES AT THE GUILLOTINE

One of tho most cynical murderer® in the annals of French crime was guillotined tit Aix-eu-Provenco recently, when Dcs Couliou, known in tho underworld which ho frequented as “Pointed Nose,” suifered tho extrema penalty for tho murder at Marseilles of a pretty dancer named Yvonn* Schmidt. . Tho crime was committed in September, 1020, and Dos Couliou was sen* fenced to death last July. When ho was awakened from ft sound sleep before dawn on tho fatal morning ho dressed himself leisurely and then, jumping up, said to tiro executioner: “ Come on, lot’s get on with it.” lie refused tho administration of tho chaplain, saying, “ 1 have no time; I am in a hurry.” ; Then ho drank a cup of coffee and a glass of rum and smoked a cigarette. , , Then ho asked, to have a look &d tiro guillotine, and when the executioner and his assistants went to support him on the way tn_ tho scaffold he shook thorn off, snouting: “Leave rao alone, you pigs! J. am an anarchist. and I am still strong enough io smash your jaw.” Ho showed no fear as ho faced tho guillotine, turning contemptuously to those around, and flung at them tho end of his cigarette, and shouted: “Long live anarchy! ’ Then he throw himself on tho block and tho knife fell A largo crowd, kept in the far distance by a cordon of police, was ura-_ sent at' the execution.