FERRER EXECUTED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2634, 16 October 1909, Page 5

FERRER EXECUTED.

TURBULENT SCENES. DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS. United Press Association —Cory right MADRID, October 14. M. Ferrer lias been shot. He was calm and courageous. His eyes were bandaged. He was attended by two Brothers of Peace and Charity, but refused the sacrament. The firing party was chosen by lot. The condition of Barcelona is tranquil. It is reported that the execution was hastened to avoid King Alfonso having to refuse the Pope’s request for clemency. Captain Galcoram, Ferrer’s counsel, was threatened with arrest for excess of zeal in the presentation of his defence. All the shops were closed in Milan. As a protest against the execution 8000 workmen at Turin struck. The labor leaders at Genoa ordered 24 hours’ cassation of work. Genoa was cast into darkness, the trams stopped, and {the newspapers did not appear. There were demonstrations at the Spanish Consulates in several Italian towns.

The working classes at Buenos Ayres propose to boycott Spanish steamers and goods.

Ten thousand people, headed by M. Jaures and members of M. Ferrer’s defence committee, made a demonstration at the Spanish Embassy in Paris. The crowd tried to break through tho police cordon. They set fire to two motor busses. Revolvers were fired. One aimed at M. Lepine, perfect of police, killed a gendarme. Finally tho pojice cleared the streets with drawn swords.

Another gendarme was killed and many demonstrators injured.

M. Ferrer founded a modern school at Barcelona. He was noted for his anti-monarchist and anti-clerical tendencies, and for preaching that an anarchist was a moral person.

Amongst' his pupils M. Ferrer was generally regarded as a philanthropist, one who was a dreamer and a conspirator.

The court-martial’s judgment against M. F errer was unanimous, and a Council of War and the Cabinet endorsed it unanimously. The Pope regrets the execution, which he fears will encourage anti clericalism. PARIS, October 14. The majority of the Paris rioters were hooligans of tho lowest class, uninterested in Ferrer. Fifty were arrested. ROME, October 14. The Mayor of Romo has issued a black-edged manifesto, which states: “Romo mourns with <ihe civilised world.” Leghorn workmen threaten to boycott Spanish goods. MONTE VIDEO, October 14. There was a great demonstration at Monte Video before the Spanish Legation, and the crowds had to be dispersed. MADRID, October 14. A member of the Spanish Cabinet declared that Ferrer was the actual instigator of the Barcelona riots.