XXXIII.—(Page 393.)
"It is in the Bois de Boulogne that those condemned to death by the court-martial will for the future be executed. Whenever the number of the condemned shall exceed ten men the execution platoons will be replaced by a mitrailleuse."—Paris Journal, 9th June.
"All circulation is forbidden in the Bois de Boulogne.
"One is forbidden to enter there, unless accompanied by a platoon of soldiers, and still more forbidden to come out again."—Paris Journal, 15th June.
XXXIV.—(Page 395.)
"One man, a swarthy, burly fellow, with a shock head of black hair, sat down at the corner of the Rue de la Paix and declined to go any further, shaking his fist at the people and grinding his teeth. After several attempts at coercive measures, one of the soldiers lost all patience, and drove his bayonet twice into his body, telling him to get up and walk on like the rest. As might have been expected, this method was not successful, and so he was seized and placed on a horse, from which he speedily threw himself, and was then tied to its tail, and dragged along the ground after the manner of Brunhilda. He soon became faint from loss of blood, and having thus been reduced to a quiescent state, was bundled into an ambulance waggon, and carried off amid the shouts and execrations of the populace."—Times, May 31st.
"Another prisoner, who had also refused to march, was dragged by the hands and hair of the head along the road."—Times, May 30th.
"Near the Parc Monceaux a husband and wife were seized, and ordered to march forward towards the Place Vendôme, a distance of a mile and a half. They were both of them invalids and unable to walk so far. The woman sat down on the kerbstone, and declined to move a step in spite of her husband's entreaties that she would try. She persisted in her refusal, and they both knelt down together, begging the gendarmes who accompanied them to shoot them at once if shot they were to be. Twenty revolvers were fired, but they still breathed, and it was only at the second discharge that they finally sank down dead. The gendarmes then rode away, leaving the bodies as they had fallen."—Times, May 29th.
XXXV.—(Page 396.)
The conservative paper, the Tricolore, said on the 31st May:—