CABLEGRAMS.

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THE IRISH RIOTS.

nT TOE CHARCW WITH . IO 'MURDER. October 12. . - n to the circumstances at. death of the pem> B e disturbance wUich ¥ m o September 9*, at #■& concluded to-day. ; The relied a verdict of *** erH 3 S againet the Police In- ISv/constables who were

POVERTY IN LONDON.

TIONS. If Hβ UNE^ PLOyEI) ■■ pIFFICUI-TY. K^ L TO KESS ASSOCIATION.] 1 LONDPS* October 13. IUoUS demonstrations have been ■Lfcoßt the city to-day by the MiM At an early hour thoir eSUoi sas6embledinTrafalgar e:;tereaßumber of threatening Jfere delivered. A procession EUrds formed which pro ■ajothe Mansion House, a black Sl bearing the inscription " Bread JBtiyn,rprominently displayed.. J& at"the Mansion House, a flKLVerviewed the authorities WLJti demand for food or em- C 2 "The Police Court at Bow eisrashed to-day by hundreds Kjtat persons seeking parish re-

RUSSIA AND HERAT.

MOVEMENT. k> ?ress association. ) msfl Lokdon, October 12. BfciPSEl) liussiaa subjects, dis. «s merchants, have entered 8 lid the Governor has in con i- Bife en precautionary mea-

FRENCH SCANDAL.

Hfij'UDlES ARRESTED. at JBI Losuojr, October 12. Kp.E'ii*iii#') who. is implicated jjMpfr Office scandal, has disap" fluaditis supposed that he has iktßjfe Several society Bpuam arrested on suspicion jj a the scandal.

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ce ) f was resolved that taken to assist the that- the Mayor tt •' to amount to

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THE EXETER FIRE.

TWO HUNDRED PERSONS ROASTED

TQ DEATIJ.

APPALLING SPE^ES-rrNARBATIVES

OF SUBVIVORS, ETG.

(FROM OUR 3PEOIAL COBBEB?CJ{DENT.)

London, September 7. Thk new theatre at Exeter, a modern house, built only last year froiti designs of the famous Mr Phipps, F.SLA., and fitted with local hoses, extincketirs, spepiaj doors, and all other known appliances forthwprotec tion of the> audience, was on Monday even ing totally destroyed by fire, upwards of 200 persons perishing in the burning building. Writing from Exeter yesterday, a correspondent says :

The First Al4firju

The play at the theatre was " Romany Rye." and there were between 700 and 800 people in the building; 20Q in the gallery and 400 in the pit. Not only wore the pit and gallery crowded, but the stalls were vycll filled. At half-past nine o'clock more went in, and then the popular parts were crammed. Up to this time, and until an hour later, not the leiist danger was appre hended. About ten minutes past ten the gipsy kidnapping scene had just taken place, and one of the actors was speak ing the words, "It was a happy thing the policemen did not appear earlier, or he \yould , have spoilt the intrigue," when the drop scene was. discovered to fall rapidly. had not Mr Mouillot stepped back it would have alighted on his head. There was a loud titter among the audience, who thought this was an accident. The conr ductor remarked, " There's something up. , ' and was about to till the unexpected interval with a selection of music. The weight of the curtain when it tell bumped the floor and rebounded, and the canvas was then puffed right out into the stalls and pit. A£ the same moment sparks and names were seen. There were shrieks of " Fire ! Fire !" and a tremendous rush for the doOvs took place. One gentleman, wbp was almost) the first to get into the street, and who had occupied a front seats in the stalls, states that the special exit door was open.

" The Theatre a Roaring Furnace."

Within three minutes the theatre was a roaring furnace. Flumes shot up through the roof over the. stage, and dense smoke; poured forth from every \yindQW , . The spectacle was terrible. The roar of the fire, the shrieks of women, despairing shouts of men, both in the streets and on the bal conies, made up an awful scene. Death seemed inevitable to those on the bal conies. Women threw themselves into the street from the side balconies, quite a distance of forty feet, and the flat lead roof over the portico was crowded with human beings crying for help. were quickly procured, and all were rescued from these standpoints. Mean* while Ihe fire had swept with amazing rapidity from the stage, and tongues of flame licked and scorched those on the balconies. ' There seemed to be no choice between a horrible death by fire and becom ing a mangled corpse on the pavement below, which was already covered with the blood of those who bad cast, themselves despairingly down. Within five minutes of the outbreak tfie City Fire Brigade were on I the spot, but |jhe water they poured on the fire was absplntely without f tfecs.>

The " Scene in th«- Gallery. The gallery was the only< part of the. theatre from which there was bpt one exit; and it was here that the terrible loss of \iU almost exeulsively occurred. A & V W*> I^a y. managed to re,aeh iheNew North Road by, the ordinary stairway; others escaped to the roof over the front balcquy of the theatre, and wove implored W % | Ul mss voices not to jump into the street. They were in a perilous position, for the fire escape, which was said to be coining, had not arrived, aiid the flames were fast apr proaching them. But pfher poor creatures there were whq§e fate was a far harder one. i3ea,ted ih the &b*nt and body of the gallery, they found upon .the tiret alarm a straggling mass between them and tJie doorwayoo s wiudows, and tlie fire afc their bagks. The shrieks, as described by one or two -who di 4 get outside, were heartrending. Blinded, and nearly stifled by the Bmok§, the un fortunate people could no chance of escape. Karrow I§papcg« The Holocaust

in the Gallery . r The special correspondent of the " Daily News "say??-" The people in the stalls, among whom was Colonel Fremantle, Gifr, Commander Q* Brigade Depot, and daughters, were soon clear, although they found on getting to the corridors that even in that short time they were full of smoke. All got through it, however.; but on coming to phe foyer i*e smoke was even more defse and the ladies already beginning to faint, many o/ wljom fied, from, the dress circles as they were, abandoning wraps, umbrellas, and everything that they were not actually wearing.. , . The back of the roof over fche sfage was, by this time well alight, aticl flakes were, beginning to belch out front <fte windows at the rear. I was on the spot yKitlun a short time of'tbe ala£m, and the sceiie even then was of a most heartrending description. At various points on the front of the. wntot the building ijtambeipt of persons could be seen in agonised attitudes, while there.were, also a number on the platform, over the portico. Cithers were appearing at diifcav ent windows. All were

irtteriiiiEr Fi<erciHjßr Shrieks. and the calls' for help werf emphasized by the strongly-marked outline* 6f those on the roof j|aiii«t tU v>dvanemg of the awful mass cf fire. The scene, was so overpowering; that many men weoo cr , come, arid had'to leave the. spot. There, were many shouts for ladders. Io a S Se one r was brought. Many oU those in danger ftpt. .w«t for tMa- some &.e4 from the windows, a fow S M roof and several from the portico, the terror-stricken people in the ma ority, of bms Wj swun^ ? off, and Was picked up, oompara terrible salary, W s fl&Te/Sd"for marched in .W. W* Y^ *'tf fcaye relates and fiWsthoj gj discovery of the "J™ 3»tcher» sopn

this produced amongst the vast crowd— which was being momentarily swelled by hundreds of people, arriving from.all parts of the city and "suburb's—was terrible. In Wiy , cases when spine thought to be missing were recognised amongst the crovvd the scene w&s most aflect- } n j?- The fire brigades were shortly joined by the engine's from both barracks. Col. Fremantle taking command of the de tachment of the Royal Artillery and the Devon. Regiment, whq were also joined by some of the City Volunteers who were re turning from drill.

That Awful Gallery.

Among the first to be gob out from the gallery were three women,' who were ta£en to an inn on the opposite side of the road, where two or three medicals niep im mediately attended t>o them. Their' flesh was hanging in some parts like ribbons, and one poor soul was perfectly unreooffl nibble. They were all conveyed in cabs to the hospital. Soon after gome corpses were brought out, persons who had evidently "been suffocated, since they were hardly touched by the fire. As the work of rescue went on, however, it became apparent that most cf the victims had been suffocated first, and then burnt—a fact which accounted for the comparatively short time pht? agonising screams were heard igsuing from the gallery stairs. A peculiarly sickening sight was in one instance afforded where five bodies were brought out charred into an indistinguish able mass. There were faint attempts at a cheer when anybody was brought put who showed any signs of life, but in each case it was only a mere flicker. The work of rescue went on for hours in this manner, Iμ many instances mere trunks only being brought out. The gallery entrance was surrounded by vast crowds, which had been increased by hundreds of people trooping in from country districts, from some of which places people had come in to see the* performance. Most of the bodies were laid out in the yard of the new London Hotel under a shed, and the scene herej under the lurid glare of the torches was indeed appalling. Most of the spectators had by this time become in different to the fire, and had concentrated their attention in watching the rescuers. In the shed there was one continuous clamour of wiv.es piteously asking for hus bands, husbands for wives, and parents for children.

Bodies Were Laid Out in Kows

Here and there was what looked like the charred stump of a tree, but what was in reality huuiau remains. There were a ghastly number of men, women, and children of all ages, many of them utterly indistinguishable. The remains bore un mistakable evidence of having been en gaged in a frightful struggle, the clothing being torn to shreds. Outside the shed, side by side with a number of remains burnt out of all semblance to human forms, are a group of three persons, father, mother, and infant ten months old. Though shockingly disfigured, these three bodies have been identified as those of a man named Davie, his wife, and child. The family resided at Heavitree, and were among the occupants of the gal lery. At the commencement of the panic Davie was seen carrying his child, and at the same time assisting his wife forward. When the bodies were recovered the man was found to have his arm round the child, and the body of his w J fe was close at. hand. Many of the dead eeem to have been overcome in the midst of their frantic rush for the open. Even in death their arms are stretched out, as though they bad endeavoured to clutch the nearest person in front of them, and so. drag themselves towards a place of safety. In iiiany instances the extremities of the bodies are horribly burnt, tho fingers calcined, and in some cases missing l . The features of those who are not so much burnt are, for the most part, dreadfully bruised, blood-stained, and smoke-grimed. Many who had their clothing torn to shreds appeared to have been crushed and trampled on, they being covered with mqd and dirt. So horrible was the speetable in the shed that it was said by a veteran to be worse than a battle-field after a con flict. Many strong men shrunk from,walk ing along the aisles formed by the, rows of scorched and crushed human remains, and women who visited the sheds to identify their friends had to be supported by officials.

The Scene ill the Pit on the alarm being given wus awful, the uudience seeming? to sro perfectly frantic, the rush mad® to iho double qoore. As an instance of their panic-stricken condition it may be stated' that they became packed round here, apfif no one Bgeinecl to have presence of mind to slip the bolt. At length a gentleman forced hist way to the front and pulled the bolt, and tjion there was a Wild scramble up the steps till the other door was reached opening into New North Road. Here there was another ter rific sirupffle, until the door was got open. Many ladiec were very badly .served, and had in consequence to be taken to the hospital. Borne men scrambled over the counter in the pit refreshment bar, and vyith their wives got put that way. Others had to carry oxit faint ing women as best they could through the* crowd by tfee ordinary staircase. One incident should be mentioned in this connection. Two tourists who canie into the city yesterday left their luggage at one of the-leading hotejs, and strolled as they said, for an hour or two. It is believed that they went to the ill-fated theatre, as nothing has since been heard of thenj. The number of dead has now reached 130. The scenes in the streets all night were of the most harrowing description, grqups of persons being "met every few yards weeping bitterly for lost Or absent friends. At day light this morning hundreds of persons were trooping to the scene of the disaster, and the work of identification has been going on slowly all da.y. Between 50 and 60 have now by various means been identified.

How the Fire Originated. Mr Mouilk>t,the member of the company, says.:.--'.'l hacl just. op m e on in the latter part of the third scene of the fourth act, and I was 'gagging,' to keep the scene up, because I thought the next vyas not. ready. I was supprise'd to see th.c act-drop sud denly descend without any warning bell. I just escaped , being struck l?y the rollen On stepping back 1 heard ijhe cry of < ifire !' atijd I noticed that the batterie in the ¥°W W vti n *S4 that thf flic? were ilea on fife, Mr Russell Rose rushed on , the stage afc this mpment with Mr Qrahjim, the stage manager, and we r all shoutiEid, 'For Heaven's efife, keep cool!' There were at least thirty on tb# gtage. O,ur call? vq keep cool were, howevec, pf little avail in the face of the g'pef*. volume of fla,Bje whjch seemed to %p Upon us almost Jn ftn inptftnt. Everybody rushea and I do not reimomber anything mor.e untjl I found,myself outside the stage-door ip Longbxoqk.&treet, gere Iran Mr Gilbert Elliott, proprietor of the company.. He asked if I had seen Miss Janet Steep who was playing the part of the gjpiy. J hftd nqf, %na Mr ElliQt and I at once, rushed b|o|R tpwajds the stage. ; Before we" cpulij reach, cfep dopr, however, we were driven back by the flamed Mr Ellibtt, who was in front of me, was on hand; ? and side of tfee face, impressipn is that M$ of the epjp«rg4 jae4iu?ns which -got 'Off tb,<J e&ges suppbijndihg the lights, mrtefc have eftugP flre,;and"that tfrfc -was the prigin.'o| the aiaastep, I hs># E laying about spe' years, but I have nevfr |n pf this $n,d:. tKfe people'from the etage got out safely." J

of Gallantry.

M,isis Janet Ijite&r,, who was playing the part of the Romany. Ryo, fainteci fn hoi , tf'ressiugorobni ' &ng after >$ ojihjr aotbre

had saved themselves for the first time her absence was noticed. Then Gilbert Elliott, proprietor of the company, and Frank Monillot, an actor, rushed back upon the flaming stage, determined to save her. Several times they were beaten back by the flames, but at' last, scorched and half asphyxiated,, they reached her dressingr room and carried her out of danger. On the way out Elliott's clothing caught fire, and before it was extinguished he was severely burped about fcfr.e neck, face and arms, so much so that he had to be re moved tO a hospital. The conduct of civilians and the soldiers from the barracks and police was in the highest degree meri torious, but unfortunately of little effect in the saving of life. Graham, the stage manager, distinguished himself by rushing into the burning edifice and rescuing a little girl, whose plaintive cries for help reached him. The dauntless Courageof Donald Cameron, Town Surveyor, was the means of saving at least some fifteen lives. When he reached the scene of the conflagration the gallery was in an immense blaze. Shrieks were heard issuing from one side of it, how ever, revealing the fact that there were yet lives to be saved. He ordered all the hose companies to concentrate their efforts upon this point. For a mo ment the flames were subdued, and by means of a ladder the spot was by Cameron, who brought on his shoulders d° wn to the, ground, one} after another, a dozen half-suffocated women. On leaving the place for the last time the flames burst put again, en veloping MV Cameron. ' was thpught fox some time that tile brave rescuer wbul<| fall a Y|ctim to his great gallantry. Ac last, however, lie reached the ladder. When but half-way down, the gallery upon which he had been walking gave, way, and, with a temifio crash', fejj into the smoking embers of the pit below. ■'.;

One of the townsmen, who with his wife was in th 6 gallery, succeeded in carrying her safely to wherei the choke in the stair way was. In the meiee lie lost her. 'After groping about for some time in terrible darkness he succeeded in finding her again. With his precious burden he rushed out into the square, ran for some with which to revive her, and then found to hia horror that the woman he had saved was a stranger. He rushed back immediately, but the gallery had fallen. Crying with grief, the man waited around till search parties began bringing out the bodies of the victims. Among them he recognised the' dear features of his wife. With a great cry he fell to the ground unconscious. When he revived he was in a dazed condition and is now confined in an asylum. _ •'

EXECUTION OF PRANZINI.

SHOCKING SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD.

THE MURDERER'S CAREER.

(fbom our special correspondent.)

London, September 7th. In the cold grey dawn of Wednesday morn ing last, the handsome, but ruthless Levan* tine whose illicit amours and ferocious murders have been the talk of Paris for rather more than six months, paid the well merited penally of his crimes at the guijlo tine. Up to the last Praimni made no con fession. He had threatened that on the eve of execution he would reveal startling facts, calculated to compromise gome of the haute noblesse. Wheft thef dread hour came, however, he had nothing to say, and though—as will be gathered from the fol lowing accounts^—-the wretched man tried to meet his doom with, theatrical bravado, he broke down eventually, and whilst wait ing for the knife to descend shrieked piteously. The execution, in point of fact, seems to have been a most shocking affair. The " Daily News" correspondent, wiring to that journal, says : —I witnessed the execu tion this morning. The sight was so ghastly that few who were within seeing distance would desire, I believe, to see such another one again. As for the mob, it could have seen nothing but the top of the guillotine and the municipal dragoon guards. grave had been du<j for %«*tjaye. $i# se>3|tpn in such > case as h|a if pjjly employed the day before' the ejtepjition. This was why there was bo njuch. premature watch ing. $J_. Gr#vy hja,(| fts t i|e4 for prexsise infor mation fr§m vtfuph wlgfetlead.to an alibi being , established, but instead he only recejvecf a sentimental letter,, jn-which he for i^ea/ns to be granted him to see hi* mother. Thl§ hj§ doom, and the, sjbate.men.|, of tbVcass ' $&$, qiown to by the Pardons Com mittee of the Ministry of Justice was re turned wfthpjot tynvthjng being written on the margiti l?jr jl. Gr4v,y. The (jrder for the execution, w#a giye# ■yesterday aji, eleven o'clock by the Procurator of the Republic, and delivered at the residence of M. Deibler, the'public executioner, by a mounted municipal guard ate three o'clock, "the pjesenejt of jt&e" orderly in. the low street in yhich l|e. lives gabled the whole neighbourhood, and before night all the scum qI PariSj to know that the event was to come off this morn ing. M. Deibler. at poce set off to look for his assistants, anil when h,e fpvjnfi them", he and they went to the place, where the guillotine is kept to put it in'•working order. At eleven o'clock they, were in the of their gruesome. tiisk. ttfte shed where they wei-e; ftfe work i« in theßuedes Folies Regnault. A-couple of vans were outside.the dpor-l One bore along basket of coarse unpeeled osier lined with zinc, a pail, sponges,;•s mop, broom, and a packet of carbonate pi soda. The basket was feo serve as a coffin to the headless trunk. Ifc was half filled with sayrdufjt.; • - • On the Pljice de La, Roquette the crowd was by midnight enormous, but not by any means exclusively raffish,, though there was a vast gathering' of rascaldom.' ' From one o'clock the police, the,mj>untqd gendarmes, and the municipal foot guards pressed back the throng to thS neighbouring streets, where they "could;'neithir see nor'heat. Not even wa,s a blapk fag run up/tp show that the, supreme ,aj*ipmen,t \Tas, con summated. There wag an inner; circle of sonje! 1,500. qard-t>earers admitted. These, people W er * P^, e 4 off ft distance of five yards fropa the guillotine, and there was aji innermost! ring; numbering- 900 cpnnectedi however remotely, with ttip Press or thftGpye>r ; nßften|i. A? th,e prison clock struck' three the executioners two red vans, escorted by the police, came up at afopkpace. v, ; almosti silently passed to, (jn# spot oppoaite; the. entranced way to the prison w li«m marks been set ih the sfeone pavemerrt wfaere the guillotine ? should stand. The scaffold is not so much erected as laid down upon the, ground,; the sleepers being b,qlte4 tdgejftier, and the two grooved uprighte'are plftijed in position and screwed hpm! The » >V»th its pulley and gear is plappd between-the two grooves. Ihe upper mfa 9l the uprights a,re, jpmep. by a. to J piede provided a spring knife. The knife con&iats of a bias blade, the , top loaded' with lead. T,his the ex«cutipner, acpordmg'tp long-standing custom, pulled tip and let fcw* l fcWlPfj, after which h§ pVllg it up fttid lgft it thfrg,, . • The KsetJUtion.

its daylight : -SfPV. on, fcjbip in ? creased. The details of the grim instru ment 'were., becoming, clear. thoughts atythafc moment, anelfow he bore himself. pot) made to waft long. At about toft

inner gates were seen to turn on their hinges and close again. There was a pause. Was Pranzini making some revela tion ? No! The outer gates opened noiselessly, and Pranzini issued. All of a sudden everybqdy was silent and hats were raised as on the passage of a funeral, t|ie gendarmes who were to escort the body drew their swords. Pran zini did not falter for a moment. He cast a few glances at the people on either side of him, and ip the mean while he riveted his eyes on the guillotine, to which he walked with • perfectly erect carriage. Although his hands were tied behind his back and his legs were fettered, lie advanced with a firnj fttep., and when he was supported by the assistants he begged them to desist. Whatever he may have felt, he kept a smiling countenance as if he enjoyed having baffled society in its attempt to find out about' his past life The scene was so awful and so impi-es sive that nobody , who was not a looker on can form a notion of its terror. The closing , phases of the drama hardly lasted more than a minute, Injt nerves were wrought up to such a pitch of sensitiveness that seconds seemed as minutes. When Pranzini came to a standstill before the scaffold he seemed. to give way but for an instant, and he turned back his head to the chaplain, whom" he had previously refused not only to confess to, but to enier into conversation with. The priest thereupon took this opportunity to offer his ministrations, and put for ward a crucifix, which Pranzini kissed. The last expression of his face was neither defiant nor craven, t>ut one apparently of vanity, rendered ghastly by the conscious ness of his impending death. The execu tioner's assistants had now a tight grip oh him. He then leaned forward on the tilt frame, which was immediately turned horizontally, and pushed towards the knife. His head was made fast, and ho was, left for ten seconds in a state of terror almost too great to bear. The public criod out "Shame." M. Deibler pulled the latch, and the blade swiftly did its work. The body was rolled into the, oblong basket filled with sawdust. The head was pulled out of a trough and thrown into the same. These remains were placed in the van and taken under escort to Ivry Cemetery for a pretended interment. They were afterwards sent to dissecting rooms. Meanwhile the guillotine was being washed, and ruddy water lay upon the pavement as we turned away from this ghastly scene.

" I Bic Innocent "

The Governor of La Roquette thus offi cially describes Pranzini's last moments :— After having required Deibler, the execu tioner, to sign a receipt for the delivery of the convict we went to cell No. 2 with the persons above-named. Pranzini, who was fast asleep, was awakened by a warder. Then M. Beauquesne told him of the re jection pf the appeal made for him to the mercy of the President of the Republic, and said, " You are a man of courage. This is now the time to prove it." He answered, "Yes, sir," ' andj added, "They have not even had the humanity to let me see my mother. It was all 1 wanted. I know that lam going to die innocent." As his gaolers dressed nim he said, "I thank you." He spoke to the same effect to the man who drew on his socks. On being asked by M. Beauquesoe whether he would like to have some pri vate conversation with the chaplain, he re plied, " No, thank you. Lot him attend to his own duty, ajidlwill do mine." They then said, " Pranzini, got up and come along." A warder then went to help him up. He said, " Don't fear. I shan't try to get away from you." When he got to the dressing room, whither he hastened, and as Deibler and<hjst&£Bisßtanta were fettering:his hands and arms, he said, " I only wished for one thing. A Commutation of thirty days. It was that I asked of the President. He re fused." Then Pranzini added, "God is great. After all it is better tp ; dia $t pnes than to be commuted and draff on life at the galleys." He tried to eaten the eye of the TDirector of Public Safety. When he caught it he thus spoke to him, "I say, M. Taylor, don't try to hide yourself thftt way, Ypu got together wit nesses against trie who were false ones. Cursed be ." Hβ did not finish the sentence!, After a pause he said, " I die in nocent. All's over. May God remain with me." When the " toilette " was ended the cortege set out for the guillotine. Pranzini refused to be helped to the scaffold, and said to the executioner's assistants "Let me alpiidi" ' He repulsed the Abbe" Faure, ing, however, the crucifix which the chap lain held before him as he preceded him waljqrjg backward to th§ scaffold. At twp minutes - past five he was beheaded. According to law the guillotine can only operate just as the sun rises. The sun got up to-day at two minutes past five, and so precisely at that moment a sign was made to Deibler to pull the string which lets the heavily-weighted triangular knife descend. Deibler is a little commonplace prosy looking grey-whiskered man, and might pass for a process-serving limb of the kw. weje. it not that, he halts in walking. The assistants were coarse, heavy faped fellows dressed in long overall blouses like those worn in shambles. The in stant the head had fallen Deibler disap peared. A reaction usually follpws execu tions. Pity for the executed man is so great that thp headsman would risk being guillotined if he did not get away into the prison. When the usual form of burial was gone through, Prfi.nzini'g head was given to" Dr. of the Faculty 'of Medicine, who by means of the Faraday galvanic process excited the nerves. Be fore the experiments took place a cast was. taken. The weight of the brain was 1,200 grammes.

Pranzini's Career.

THE MURDER OF MARIE REGNAULT.

The "Beau Gar con."

Henri Pranzini was so infamous a villain '; that twenty gyiHotines could not given him his deserts. Paris was startled with the neSys of his crime. It was tjfap of a long series of private murders, and it could scarcely have shocked a public grown fas.-, tidibus'in horrors if it had not also been the worgt. -4 womaji o| a rather nondescript class named T)e Moritille, otherwise known as Marie Begnault, with her servant anH a little child sjftepingin a cradle byher Bedside, were all brutally murdered.; Their hpd beep, cut, and,, in the chiicl*s case, decapitation had nearly re sulted from the of thestroke. The' place was ransaqked; tihe motive was evi dently plunder. Marie Regnault was kntttjth to be the possessor of costly jewels, and they were gone. To get at her jewels, had evidently begun t<> kill her as Bne slept, : arict, to preyenf all risk of detection, I%s had killed the servant apd the'chuo. "$% feacl, in fact, destroyed a* whole household., The day after the murder the hue and cvy, was raised throughout ».J1 Trance. The police at first threw their netg |-arJS w4 : tbe Eastern Depart ments,' but they drew ■ nothing. They had but a poor clue. The people of the house, id the "Bue Montaigne where Marie Reg nault lived "were able to describe a man who had been seen on the staircase on the evening of tie crime, but there, for the moment, all trace of him lost. In a few 4ays, however, news qamefrpm Marseilles.' A man who, had passed the (evening in. fne o| tlbie deji| 01, iiifamy in liat Jc'ity i»aa ofieredf some costly jewellery for isaleforatrifljjncsiini. The, women who had jbought it heard of the miirder thußough the JneWßgap§ra,. : "comraunicated with th©. E* bllde. The ohase was warm now,, ut still th£ murderer'"was iiot caught. ;Soon, however, the police had such . in jformatipw as; Warranted them in tapping; on the shoulder a gentlemanlike., person who 'was attending ft performww at the theatre,;

The gentlemanlike person was Pranzini. The"'women to whom he had offered the jewels recognised him at once; cards bearing his name had been found in the hpuse of the murdered vrpjnan; his face and hands v/ere scratched,, as though he had taken part in , a violent struggle ; he lied crudely, foolishly, in his answers to most of tble questions, that were put to him. He was soon brought back t<? Paris, and then gradually his full history came oufc, with a host of minute particulars that tended to fix the crime upon him.

Murder of Madame Skobeleff.

He was an Italian, if he could be said to have a nationality, but an Italian of the Levant, and he was born at Alexandria in 1856. He had a fluent mastery of most of the languages spoken 'by those nomads of civilisation to whom he Belonged. He had been everything by turns, and nothing long ; had been dismissed from the Egyp ; tiari Post Office for theft, had served as in terpreter in the Russian army during the last war with Turkey, had helped the ! English army in the same way* in the Soudan, and between the two adventures, for to him they were nothing more, had tried his fortunes so far afield as Afghanistan end Burmah. The most mysterious passage of his life related to his brief period of service in the Russian army. He had been employed by Skobeleff; and at the mention of the Russian General's name it was remembered that the General's mother had been cruelly robbed and murdered in a lonely spot, soon after he had recompaerided a courier to her service, to whom, first, she had conceived a violent aversion. The courier was never found; but there was a horrible suspicion that if Skq beleff could have lived to confront Pranzini he might have recognised the man who dis appeared so mysteriously after the crime. This secret, if it were one in Pranzini's keeping, has gone to the grave with him. As our telegram shows, he affirmed his innocence of the crime of Which he was proved guilty, and died consistently lying to the last. He had earned, or at any rate acquired, large sums. He re turned from Afghanistan with thirty thou sand francs, and h,e received seven thousand for his services in the Soudan. But he, was always in want of money, and when he came to Paris in 1886, after his wanderings in every quarter of the globe, he was glad to make an acquaintance with a Madame Sabatier that promised to replenish hia empty purse. , ■

The "Bearded Lady."

In this intrigue he returned to his true calling. He was by profession a ieaugarcon, or fascinator of the fair, IJe was handsome and pleasing; he had a silken moustache and white hands; and he turned all these advantages to account in making a ljvingin the most infamous way. Madame" fiSabatier became violently enamoured of him, and sup plied him with funds until he had drained her, of every penny. When her resources were ex hausted,/he made the acquaintance of Marie Regnault. They met at a picture gallery —he was not , indifferent to the arts,,and he had a certain taste for music and sing ing. He made the acquaintance of Marie Regnault in February; in a month from that time, as we have seen, he was ready to put her to death. Sβ had found out all about her in the meanwhile — her history, her habits, and her manner of storing her jewels* When he was quite= ready, he bought a large butcher's Knife arid a false beard with almost tJ*e last few francs he had in his pocket, and he went straight to his work, lying quietjy by his side, until her deep preathing showed that he might venture to cut her throat. ; Hβ had fascitjated Madaipe Sabatier to such good purpose that he was very nearly saved by aji alibi to which he hajd persuaded her to testify. The case turned largely on thequestionafe tp the way in which he Tiad passed the night of the murder, j Even %i> the very last, as our correspondent show«s> M- Gr^vy-pressed; jiinx for satisfac-j tqry evidence on, this point. He said that he had passed it, at Madame Sabatior's House, and, at first, in the belief that she' 1 stjll retained his affection, she consented to bear him out. But Avhen the wily '* Juge d'lnstruction" shpwed her a iettorjn which Pranzini bad described her to another of his female a§ a '' bearded lady,' , herangejr, lor the moment, got the better of her love, and §he told the truth. From' the time of that faiaj however, to the very eve, of his execution, her Jifq was one persistept endeavour tb return to the falsehood. She declared that Pranzini might have to come to her ftpartmerit with out waking her, andshe sought an ihten'iew with the President of the Republic tp offer him his chpiQ'e.Qf a number 61 pthpr ingeni ous inventions that might save her faithless lover's head. An examination of his papers showed that \yoman after woina,n liad compromised herself for hig , sake, iie was in correspondence with a lady iof high Social .standingin* America, and it is believed , thftiii,his chief motive in commit ting the murder wae to find the passage money for his. journey to New York, Wjtjen eTery, iaapudent lie had failed him, the re membrance of his dupes still gave him a happy, thought for the last of the series. To the President's pressing question as tb his whereabouts on the night of the crime, he had no, better reply tomake than that' 4 qhivalrous regard for a lady's honour cpm pelled him to ; keep his mouth closedi This sealed his doom. ..':'% ; '

rHE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 18&?.

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