eleven o’clock
I took it and read : REPORT OF THE DEATH AND EXECUTION OF LAURENT GUYON , ETIENNE HYVERT , FRANÇOIS AMIET , ANTOINE LEPRÊTRE . Condemned the twentieth Thermidor of the year VIII. , and executed the twenty-third Vendemiaire of the year IX . To-day , the twenty-third Vendemiaire of the year IX. , the government commissioner of the tribunal , who received at eleven of the evening the budget of the Minister of Justice , containing the minutes of the trial and the judgment which condemns to death Laurent Guyon , Etienne Hyvert , François Amiet and Antoine Leprêtre ; -- the decision of the Court of Appeals of the sixth inst. , rejecting the appeal against the sentence of the twenty-first Thermidor of the year VIII. , I did notify by letter , between seven and eight of the morning , the four accused that their sentence of death would take effect to-day at eleven o'clock . In the interval which elapsed before eleven o'clock , the four accused shot themselves with pistols and stabbed themselves with blows from a poinard in prison . Leprêtre and Guyon , according to public rumor , were dead ; Hyvert fatally wounded and dying ; Amiet fatally wounded , but still conscious . All four , in this state , were conveyed to the scaffold , and , living or dead , were guillotined . At half after eleven , the sheriff , Colin , handed in the report of their execution to the Municipality for registration upon the death roll : The captain of gendarmerie remitted to the Justice of the Peace a report of what had occurred in the prison , of which he was a witness .