The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-17
How They Buried Guibord.

received instructions from the mayor to
send detachment of armed policemen TO
the Catholic cemetery to protect the men
who were digging the grave of Guibord.
He was instructed to send the remainder
Of his reserve force, consisting of about
100 men, TO the Protestant cemetery.
Forty of the men were armed with breeeh
loading rifles, the remainder merely carry
ing their batons. The volunteers turned
out on the Champ de Mars, in the follow
ing order Victoria rifles, numbering $50 !;
Montreal engineers, numbering 80 rifles !;
the 9th Hochelagas, $50 men Prince of
Wales rifles, 250 men the garrison artil-
lery, 200 men Col. Stevens flying artil
lery.
At ten o'clock the grave was ready for
the coffin. At this time not over twenty
spectators were present at the Catholic
cemetery, but crowds were collecting from
all directions.
The police formed in a hallow square
around the Protestant cemetery vault, and
the sexton unlocked the doors and he and
his men entered, followed by the friends OF
the deceased. After little delay, the
coffin containing Guibord's remains was
produced, when Mr.. Boisseau asked if
those were the remains OF the late Joseph
Gubord, kept by him for six years, de-
livered up to him again on the I'd of Sep
TENDER, and returned to him for safe keep
ing on the same day. The sexton said they
were the same.
The chief of police thereupon gave the
command, shoulder arms" and the fu-
neral procession started, which, at that
time consisted of couple of carriages, the
police being the sole guardians, as the mil
ltary were far behind and never going up
to the cemetery at all.
The road to the Catholic cemetery was
crowded with people of all classes, in cabs,
carts and on foot, while the stream of We
hicles which had been going west to meet
it now double about, making sort of lane
for the small funeral procession 10 pass
through.
Great quiet prevailed and no one showed
by look, word or deed any hostility towards
the procession. About five minutes after
the Catholic cemetery gates had been
taken down the funeral procession entered,
portion of the police preceding and the
remainder following theihearse. The mill
tary were halted at the village of Cote des
Neigs.
The crowd began gathering from every
direction and ran with all speed up various
avenues towards the grave. The police
formed a square around the grave and kept
the large crowd back while the coffin was
brought from the hearse, borne by four
men, and placed in the center of a bed of
cement prepared for it. The process of
filling the grave then began. The moment
the coffin was lowered into the grave, the
work of mixing cement with water was
commenced. Workmen shovelled in liquid
cement mingled with odds and ends from
tin shops and scraps of sheet iron. The
comments of the spectators were various as
he work went on. Some thought it an
| additional dissertation of the cemetery
| and limited that it was one more
reason why the cursed Guibord
would have to come out of that. Others
regretted exceedingly that the sarcophagus
had not been brought up as If not used as a
casket it might have been laid on top of
the cement. Oilers seemed to take the
whole affair as huge joke, though to
many who with compressed lips and knit
was serious. As the filling in process con
tnued the police grew little strict in
holding the crowd back, and the motley
assemblage speedily environed the grave
Mr. Camyre, distant relative of the de-
ceased, said few words in regard to his
| excellent character and the esteem IL
which he was held by those who knew
him. The speakers remarks were not re
ceived with appreciation from number OF
roughs who hooted at Mr.. Camyre. Be
yond this there was nothing publicly said
| Oh tllt bluc VI TIC lustitut NduhuiCu. Nv
animus of the crowd collected was unmis
taxable, and their threats to dig Guibord's
bones out of the grave if occasion Offered
were 80 openly expressed that Mr.. Bots
seau secured guard of police from the
mayor to watch the grave for at least q
hours, thus giving time for the cement tt
harden into solid rock. The cement wal
filed in oyer the coffin to near the surface
and when the top dressing of earth wal
piled on and Guibord was buried at last
a drizzling, cold November rain beat dowI
on the snowy, muddy ground, and on uh'
spectators who witnessed closing act in thu
drama commenced six years ago.
When all was over Chief Penton rode vi
in front of the grave, the police formed in
to two divisions and marched off.
crowd of twenty-five or thirty ldegrade'
looking loafers then gathered around tn
grave and one of them in mockery put
dead thistle stalk at the foot of it, which
was snatched off by boy, at whom the
began to jeer. They attempted nothini
further until the last carriage, containing
Mr.. Boisseau, moved off, when they hisset
| and ieered The military then prOceede