Danbury Times

Execution of a Female.-On the 19th December, at noon precisely, the sentence of death was carried into execution, in the town of Nevers, on the person of the widow Guyonnet, convicted of poisoning her husband. Like every other French criminal, she had appealed against her sentence, although the finding of the jury was upon the clearest evidence. Her appeal was rejected by the Court of Cessation. For some time past, full of confidence that she would obtain a commutation of the extreme penalty, she had resumed all the original gaiety of her character. She could not believe, she averred, that if she was destined to end her days on the scaffold, they would have taken so much pains to render her accouchement favorable. The principal reason of the delay in carrying her sentence into execution, had been the circumstance that she was expected to become a mother.--

When the fatal period arrived, the proper officer entered the prison at half past eight o'clock, and read to her the decree which announced to her the final rejection of her appeal, and the confirmation of the capital sentence. Upon receiving this terrible intelligence, she at once perceived that she had but a few moments to live. A nervous tremor seized her, and she fell senseless to the ground. Nevertheless, she supported with much resignation the frightful preparations of the toilette, and upon its termination mounted with a tolerably steady step to the vehicle, where her confessor took his place by her side.

When she arrived at the place of suffering she gave herself in the hands of the executioner, and in a few minutes after she had ceased to live.

The rain fell at the time in torrents, but an immense crowd had assembled. For eleven years past there had not been at Nevers a single capital punishment.