Warning: Disturbing Images Below
Albert Fournier was guillotined on this date in 1920 in Tours, by France’s ubiquitous early 20th century headsman Anatole Deibler.
The previous August, Fournier murdered a M. Monmarche, his sister Mme. Vouteau, and their servant Marie Thillier, also raping the latter victim’s corpse.
On this day..
- 1998: Three Afghan men under a toppled wall
- 1663: William Dillon, anatomized and diarized
- 1930: Luigi Versiglia and Callistus Caravario, missionary martyrs
- 1984: Ten members of the Tudeh party
- 1881: Edwin C. Hayden, Vermonster
- 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- 1969: The peasants of Thanh Phong (allegedly)
- 1897: Henri-Osime Basset
- 1716: Four Jacobite rebels at Liverpool
- 1922: Henri Landru, French Bluebeard
- 1536: Jacob Hutter, Anabaptist leader
- 1879: Charles Peace, Victorian cat burglar
Good the execution! Have done well to make see the body after beheading!
Thank you, headsman. It was kind of you.
Here you go:
http://guillotine.cultureforum.net/t107p45-photos-de-criminels
Dear friends. – I have studied the life and crimes of Albert Fournier in archives in Tours, Angers and Melun (France). I am at present writing an article on Fournier, his career as a young man, his stay in prisons and service as a corporal in the First World War, until he formally was degraded and humiliated. Further on his return to Chambray-lès-Tours after another stay in prison, now broken in body and mind, violent, dangerous, aiming to kill. – I have seen one of the pictures from the anatomical auditory – the picture at the top, the most clear of them – but never the photography below. It is not represented neither in the Archives of Indre-et-Loire, situated at Tours (where he was executed), nor in the Archives of the Prefecture of Police in Paris, from where the three other existing pictures of Fournier stem. I would be very happy if our headsman or one of the visitors to this excellent blog might be able to inform me of the origin of the picture below. – Throw out the life belt, folks. Vagn Lyhne, Denmark.
Someone should have given him a “heads up” that crime doesn’t pay.