The Portland daily press., 1871-06-13
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The Last Days of the Bnsurrection.
THRILLING DETAILS OF THE SCENES OF
HORROR AND BLOODSHEE.

.hieflv the Times and other Tendon journals,
shows how the Versailles government, whose
riumph is hailed with acclamations by most
American papers, renewed the horrors of 1872
with improvements" Whether it was worth
while to commit such atrocities for the sake
Of rectoring the BourbOns and thus making
another Commune possible in the course of
time is TO our mind rather questionable
A WOMAN WHO had KILLED FOUR MEN Is CAP
TURED AND SHOT,
Paris MAY 26) Correspondence OF the London
Times.
You have beard doubtless. of the vivandieres
OF tne National 6attaliOns, who have marched
brightly and hraVely to the combat with the
corps, with the men who claimed their Wild
and more than half unwomanly devotion. One
woman of this class, straight, tall, splendidly
limb--she could not have been more than %,
and she was a woman perfectly made-I saw |
suffer frightful fate. Captured, / know not |
how, she had killed with revolver, before |
her hand could be stayed, a Versaillist officer |
and three of his men. She looked tout and |
out" fury; her handsome face was black with |
powder, her lips especially made livd by hasty |
biting OF cartridges; her hair hung in disrevel- |
ed taDgles about her handsome but ferocious
face; and her eyes, cleaning with an over
madness, blazed defiance on the red
breeched crowd who had her at their.
mercy. l will not linger on the scene.
Her hands were tied, and, with her back
against the wall, she ded-pierced through
and through with shots from the rifles of Nj.
Ihlerss troops. Icould not blame them-but
could not help being deeply sorry for her.
THE CAPTURED MEN AND WOMEN AT sAToRx.
Paris Correspondence of the London Standard.
we first went up stairs where upon the first
ana second floors, were the female prisoners,
between 800 and 400 in number. The house
was evidently unused at ordinary times. There
was no balustrade to the staircase. and no fur
niture whatever in the rooms, only some straw
on the ground. In this place there was close,
nois0me smell. There were women from all
ages, from 10 to 60, together with few young
boys; a few sitting down, the rest standing
about. There was an anxious, wan look upon
them, and all TUNED and made little move
ment as entered. 1t seemed as if they half
hoped, half feared, that their hour had arrived
to be interrogated. Some OF the women were
ierocious looking viragoes, the tricoteuses OF the
last revolution, the furi who poured blazing
petroleum upon the heads OF the troops as
they advanced in this instruction. A few
were mild, frightened looking creatures, who
mad PROBABLY stood by some husband they
loved on the barricades, their love overcoming
their fear. Some stared boldly and defianty
at me, with faces from which all show of mod
esty had disappeared years ago; others looked
down abashed at the position and company in
which they found themselves. Some were in
rags, with Wild hair, unkempt and matted,
falling on their shoulders Others we're in de-
cent clothing, and had made some efforts to
tidy their hair, and to preserve the look OF
women. 1t was an intensely painful sight.
TRAGIcAL FATE OF THE COMMUNIST LEADERS.
Paris MAY ~ Correspondence ot1The London Tele-
The Government troops are vindictive, if not
even brutal. in following up their victory A
trio OF the Communist leaders was captured on
Thursday night They were jules Wales,
Ferre, and Louguet Wales was made prison
er after the others, in rear of the Theatre du
Chatalet. His comrades had been taken very
shortly before Wales was dragged forward
by the Versaillists, and one of their non COM
missioned officers struck him upon the neck
with his sword. In his anger and agony Val
las struck back, and Immediately an extempo-
rary shooting party was drawn up, and fired
into the body of the unfortunate rebel. But
Vallas had the bad taste not to die off at once;
he writhed, and twisted, and groaned upon the
ground, until nearly all who were within sight
and hearing had to avert their eyes and move
away from the sight Of his most horrible suffer-
ing. The Captain commanding the firing par
ty told me that "They let him suffer on pur-
pose" His fellow captive, Ferre whose doom
was but deferred, cried out, "Oh! Captain! in
the appeal was SO far successful that the cap
tors then shot their prisoner dead.
Lefrancais, Gambon and AmOurouX were
shot in the Rue de la Banque against the wall
OF the Stamp Office. Raoul Rigault finished
his days in the court yard of the EcOle Mill
taire. Courbet, the painter, who ordered the
destruction of the Vendome Column, was
found hiding in cupboard, not quite large
enough to conceal him, in the ministry of
Finance, and attempting some resistance. was,
according to some reports, shot on the spot.
Maljournal, who has boasted ever since the
fatal I'D of March, when the Party of Order
was fired upon in the Rue de la Paiy, that he
gave the order, has met the fate which he SO
| richly merits.
Dombrowski died in the bedroom of the
Hotel de Vile, formerly occupied by Mdle
HaussmaD. The day after his escape from La
Muette, he received three rifle shots while at
barrcade in the Rue d'OrganO. He was
transferred from there to the Hotel de Vile
where he died of his wounds. De!escluze was
killed on Tuesday at the barricade of the Cha
teau d Eau. His face was much disfgured by
portion OF burning wall which had fallen
on it.. His identity is amply proved by papers
found In his pocket The insurgent Gen. Bis
SOD, who was captured, was shot yesterday, as
we'll as Tavernier, member of the Commune.
Milliere, a Deputy of the National: Assembly,
was arrested on Thursday in the Place Lux
emburg. He was thence led to the Place du
Patheon, and there shot, When the soldiers
were raising their rifles to dispatch him, he
cried, "ViUe la Con,muneP' Vive PHunaanite!''
"Vive ze PeopleP'
DESPERATE ACTS OF THE FEMALE INSURGENTS.
Paris MAY 26) Correspondence OF The London
Times.
took walk down the Rue Rivoli, toward
the Hotel de Vile, to judge of the amount of
damage done, and at the corner of the Rue
Castlglione became aware of the approach of
great crowd of people yelling and shaking
their fists. The cortege was headed by COM
pany OF mounted gendarmes, behind whom
came two artillerymeD dragging between them
soiled bundle of rags that tottered and
struggled, and fell down under the blows that
were shouldered upon it by all who were with
in reach. 1t was woman, who had been
caught in the act of spreading petroleum Her
face was bleeding and her hair streaming down
her back, from which her clothing had been
torn: On they dragged her, followed by
hooting mob, till they reached the corner of
the Louvre, and there they propped her up
against wall, already half dead from the
treatment she had received The crowd rang
ed itself in circle, and l have never seen a
picture more perfect and complete in its de-
tails than were presented by that scene The
rounded by crowd who could scarce be kept
from tearing her in pieces, who waved their
arms, crying Drown her! drown herr on one
side barricfde, still strewn with broken guns
and hats--a dead Natio 1al Guard lying in the
fosse-behind group of mounted gendarmes,
and then perspective of ruined streets and
blackened houses, eliminating in the extreme
distance in the still burning Hotel de Ville.-
PRESENTLY TWO reviewers were OlScnarSou ana
the bundle of rags fell forward in pool of
blood.
THE EXTENT OF THE SLAUGHTER.
Paris MAY 2s) Correspondence of The London
Times.
The executions OF the insurgents are whole
sale. 1t is estimated that upward of 1000 per-
sons have been shot already on the left bank
of the Seine alone, evidently small proper
ton of the total number Wherever women
and children are to be observed leaning over
the paraDet of the Seine intently regarding