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Prado (also known as “Count Linska de Castillon") (died 28 December 1888) was a Spanish murderer who was guillotined in France.
Prado, who refused to reveal his real name, was brought up in the city of Gijón, Asturias, and had travelled the world by the age of 14. In 1872 he was a sub-lieutenant in a Carlist group during the Carlist Wars and was later wounded at the Battle of Somorrostro. He married his hospital nurse, who died on a trip to the Holy Land. He claimed to have then married a second time in Lima. [1]
He moved to France where he lived off a local girl until cutting the throat of Marie Aguetant, described as his mistress, on 14 January 1886. He was eventually caught, put on trial and sentenced to be executed by guillotine. The execution took place at La Roquette Prison on 28 December 1888, [2] observed by some 200 celebrities with sufficient influence to enter the prison precincts, including Paul Gauguin, Jean Mounet-Sully and Paul Armand Silvestre. A large crowd had assembled outside the prison. [3]
References
- ^ "1888: Prado, before Gauguin". Executed today.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "PRADO'S EXECUTION". Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser. Vol. XXIX, no. 4160. Queensland, Australia. 12 February 1889. p. 4. Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Prado Executed". Daily Alta California. Vol. 42, no. 14360. San Francisco, California: Alto California Publishing Company. 29 December 1888. p. 5. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside.
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Prado (also known as “Count Linska de Castillon") (died 28 December 1888) was a Spanish murderer who was guillotined in France.
Prado, who refused to reveal his real name, was brought up in the city of Gijón, Asturias, and had travelled the world by the age of 14. In 1872 he was a sub-lieutenant in a Carlist group during the Carlist Wars and was later wounded at the Battle of Somorrostro. He married his hospital nurse, who died on a trip to the Holy Land. He claimed to have then married a second time in Lima. [1]
He moved to France where he lived off a local girl until cutting the throat of Marie Aguetant, described as his mistress, on 14 January 1886. He was eventually caught, put on trial and sentenced to be executed by guillotine. The execution took place at La Roquette Prison on 28 December 1888, [2] observed by some 200 celebrities with sufficient influence to enter the prison precincts, including Paul Gauguin, Jean Mounet-Sully and Paul Armand Silvestre. A large crowd had assembled outside the prison. [3]
References
- ^ "1888: Prado, before Gauguin". Executed today.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "PRADO'S EXECUTION". Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald And General Advertiser. Vol. XXIX, no. 4160. Queensland, Australia. 12 February 1889. p. 4. Archived from the original on 28 April 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Prado Executed". Daily Alta California. Vol. 42, no. 14360. San Francisco, California: Alto California Publishing Company. 29 December 1888. p. 5. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside.