The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

HORRIBLE RESULTS OF _ A
_REVOLT IN A

PIWITENTIAILY.

The most awful illustration ofjeveriile depravity that
we remember—one which Is in itself a whole sh.pter,
nay a volume of horrors--is the iteilt of boy
French penitentiary on one of the Myers, lalabds, at
of which has just arisen a trial if the .sisie s of 0 6
department of the Tar. Tb. Refortagtory Is,ou In
which the boys are taught herdssediy. It amp,. te
have boon in a demoralised stem before the eppoiatmerd
of the present Goiania. He was appry ore I with the
view of restoring its domiplism, but he seoeuushed sliest
without an eirgt to the rebellio the riogleslers
which bee. jest been tried and coodenmed. The die-
eriotion given of lbe nranageseent of the older excires ne
envision of itthunsaulty or harshnem. The di. tof the
boys was al good a• prison diet usually le. The Lye
had three meals a day, and breed at distr. lion. ?nap"
was • school end there w.ia • library. To all apparent,
the inmates lied every reason to be a. happy as zoos
1 prisoners meld be. But the Governor was certainly a
coward, and may have been corer The children may
have had g Wetness that we know nothing of; oertoo
..6 Is that something made them perfectly diabolical ,ft
blood thirstinem and cruelty. There battles.,, • large
arrival from Corsica of boys, who are said to have h en
Insubordinate before their removal, end to the. Linea*
of them lade the Governor appears deposed tel attribute
tee revolt. Oros of them is said so have boasted slue.,
the outbreak that ID Corsica the boys made twenty le
soldiers armed with baronets, retire, and (In tot •
gives countenance to the Governor's theory; bet no
Corsican boy appears to have been onnriced, and Le
riogleader was one of the previous inmate. of the
Reformatory. This boy—named Condnrior—apptera le
have bed • horrible instinet for provoking and ore...t—
ins revolt. Colueidently with the arrival of the Corsican
contingent there hat *risen mplaints of the food, and
the Ant sedate of Coodurieee pro „Iranian was to turn
this discontent to amount by • iv/matins it beyond
endurance. For this he had unfortuuste facilities He
was gook, and Le tr .pared the day'e food with sea water.
It was uneatable, and, of canine, the discontent ria to
a terrible height. The boys reused to work. They
walked about on the ass shore and returned at nialste
The Governor appears to have beep simply paralyse-.
He took no note of this 'medusa. Shortly after beds
time his forbearance was rewarded or his puellanimiy
waii punished—by an outburst of not. Windows weer
broken, doors were foroal, the Lds dermanded from the
dormitories into the court-yard. They approached the
,:oversor's teem, but were turned aside. This, how-
ever, was the utmost restraint that was put upon them.
The chief warder rushed to the Governor. " What was
to be doper Said tine Governor, "If we *niggle ahem,
we must " kill; it ia too serious, and I refuse."
The Preaident of the Court prononnees thie
unparelleled eirakness. And so it was. 2fot be-
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• the Govenior objected to died blood, bet believe.
he perinitted Wool to be shed. Not liecause be Icedied
the ultimate necessity at his duty, but because be feared
to fore what it was his duty, if need were, to die in
repressing. It was not b risme he am not twimier
apprehend deafer that the Go 5-nor adopted this per.
foam ry mane of conduct. He " sew Mesta, floss
amongst the rebels, and be wi-beel to avoid the *Lidos
of blood." His sondeet, howeyee, pro the evaded
homes that blood should low. Coeds ler's arras? ems nu
were very simile. There wet* boys in diecipinsry
onidoement, nod there were others who bad recently
repo ted to the authoritie• *stain iro.oralitks that.
had been secretly going on. Coal oriet's plan was to
liberate the refractory boys, and—horrible to relate—to
rare Ile spies. And he carried oat big eeheme. Nine
sells were broken epos, and from them streamed recruits
ripe for the work of destructi es and ormehy. The store
vs. attacked. Uri from it wait pawed as pro-
visions, wine, and brandy. The boys became inforiated
with the 'ignore, and than Coadoner—• Nero of six-
teen - drew aside his lieutenants Ferandon ant Allard,
to give them instructions. Then the "spies" were,
collected and sent into the store. There was • heap of
paper prepared beforehand, and • veered of petroleum
was broken and spilt over it. Then rerandon set Lbo
pities alight and shouted me how wit my lire burns.
Fourteen young children were immured in tide skilfully
improvised forming, but Cesederie• sod reread= and
needy three hundred other precocious (lemma did not
relent. To Allard—only thirteen years et sp. Ferandou
being &uremia—was entrusted the maws sanguit.ary teak
of ell He was to knife any one of the tortured boys
wlio attempted Le leaps the Eames. One led bearing
no other name but Garib.ldi sought to get est ; bat
Allard was ready. Stabbed in the breast and legs. the
poor led fell back into the lenses Tbe oat, man se
the biked who .bowed common mandates on the =m-
elon was • sailor named Ditomidray, signalman ef a
n.ighhouring semaphore; and to gave the Court • most
effecting amount of this most frightful bottommost. Ho
ems known to man, of the boys, and popular arnool
them. He presented himself on the POMO, and strove
to silo them before the egregious berning was accom-
plished. To please them. he desalt with them, and at
end it seemed certein that be at least would suffer no
hart. So little did he suspect the bop of really Gruel
design that even when they began to be MI.-mire he
did not lay shoat him as he might with • erns bar
whieli he carried. Suddenly, however, be saw Lamm.
He then feared destruction; hat not even then did he
imagine the boys &mid be roasting other. alive. The
good man called out to them in (natio rensoustreeess.
Bat instead of heeding him, they seized him roughly,
care him ninny blow; and at lad made him dread that
, they meant to dim him on the Are. He wag streagand
vigorous. He rushed out of the building, thee' ng
several of his a•milante with kim, but he was ag.4o
ettacked. One boy nearly strangled him, and then,,
midst many blows, his moose almost left him. Wh.-n
be recovered • 111th, be found he bad been burled to •
sort at • ditch immediately beneath the window of the
burning store. His thigh WM broken' he was bleeding
absodantly, but be was deetined to were. sufferings
thou these. Hardly any lining man eau ever
have suffered Ing this brave 'Sloe now oolltorwd.
When at the bottom of the climb, be heard the victims
crying for hide. One sailed his mother; another was
ezdaiming. "the good God stakes as suffer se much;
smother said to him, 'Haves; etre s. H. Docoudray."
He said, I did try, but could rot seamed. There errs
only two slinging at the iron hare of the window. •
lore dame woe op shod took them away. The legs
were banging ovoids tle bodies inside.l sew them
biting the bars, scrapieg the walls 'kith their nails
who had seem cried is my life, who Itsd bees at see 14
years, who had men death in the fads more time •
hominid time, sew, at seeing these poor helpless chil-
dren sat does on a stone and herd iato teals like •
Oda. Theo, Wag usable to bear any looter that
dreadful seine, I emoted over the ground with my
breken thigh. I rolled over the bottom of the ditch.
I was sot suffering from my wonted*. I was nod."
When • sense% of the resiteetiary sum to him, theirs
were two (heady skeletons at the windows, and he
could oaly point to them in his misery, sod cry, "Th.
children are burnt." There is something very touching
in the man's sarratiou of this terrible experience, sad
especially in one little ieeident. He saw big boys go try
sod he dared sot speak to them or show signs of life.
Bet there was a little ow who passed by crying. and to
him the fond miler spoke. "Why," said be, " are you
crying?'
crylogr- Led the little W answered through hi"s Robe,
Bemuse my companions are hernias.
replied he, "it is done now—they are burnt." The
terrible destruction of these fourteen lives did not coo'
elide the woe of horror. The curtain of deep and
...wipes' did not fell Epos it until tbe miserable
wild and horrid diedpetios
"Iput--ergtiesik:.patihlosbadpeatbiabe.: iadighosetbirear.wii.frighinLenel enough
bt thtliche
was ghostly beyond measure as the edebrattes of i.e of
the mast barbarous and heartier, of reseeded 11811.1111111110
tionnoisted by youngest Greater's whom cue would kayo
deemed area enoagh if they had only robbed a bird'.
Dish. There is so rieed to moralism es so awful a teary,
bat sash • portentous phenomenon of kurtosis atrocity
is full of matertele flu tbetight. It may serve *one
metal purpose to pereeive that out of the mouths of
babes and enekliep may be ordaioed the most fearful
proposals of gent. Eves Albinos msy, by acts of
deesecelly and almost isooneeivabie cruelty, remind
sceiigut of the depths of
of wisitedeses whisk have been
d within the limits eivilmatios, and toads those
5n
are responsible for order that paaiehmest is idle
where reformation does not progress. At the trial the
most intense curiosity prevailed &WWII( the inbabititate
of Tat to enta 'glimpse of the &Mares of these pang
demos& The istamiciestee which these • Yet 4ed intro
evinced during the trial eras startling. TI el strPtiers4
eftipelled. Albod, the youngest of the mrelfers'nt
slimed the most bartered. Coudurier, the n &elec,
hos mime by laheritanos ; his father was guiiio.ined,
his mother is a prettied**, and ogre of his sect 5 ia
*twisting his mimeo at the Beams for iffe The "19w.
lip meteors has been peened os the criminals
Condurier, Laurent, roughs, axed Iltrutui. se" ssn'
Wooed to hard labour foe life; Mistletoe to toti yawls'
hard labour; Galant to iv.; AIWA, 13 years of see,
to tee years imprieciemest; inviter, Heraebrood,
Bersgier, Penick., mod Ilyseetia, to three yeses Ire
=mist ; Persedes Leen to he detained is the
of Oserestion till their twentieth year. Gossett
aid Paris me aeopitted. The matesate were delivertd
og the posed of rehellies, pillage, murder sad
mosJl•rison.