GIBES AT THE GUILLOTINE
One of the most cynical murderers In the annals of French crime was guillotined At Aix-en-Provence ire. cently. when Dea Ooiiliou, known In the underworld whioh he frequented as “Pointed Nose,” suffered the extreme penalty tor the murder at Marseilles of a pretty dancer named Yvonno Schmidt. The crime was committed In September, 1920, and Des Couliou was sentenced to death last July.
When he was "awakened from a sound sleep before dawn on the fatal morning he dressed himself leisurely and then, jumping up, said to the executioneer: "Come on, lei s get oh with it." He refused the admlnistra. tion of the chaplain, saying. “I have no time; I a min a hurry.” Then he drank a cup of coffee and n glass of rum and smoked a cigarette. Then he asked to have a look at the guillotine ,and when the executioner and his assistants went to support him on his way to the scaffold he shook them off, shouting: “Leave me alone, you pigs; I am an anarchist ,and I am still strong enough to smash your Jaw." Ho showed no fear as ho faced the guillotine, turning contemptuously to those around, and flung at them the end of his cigarotte, and shouted: “Long live anarchy!" Then he threw himself on the block and the knife fell.
A large crowd, kept in the far dls. tance by a cordon of police, was present at the execution.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2346, 16 January 1926, Page 4
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