Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-24
GUIBORD,S BURIAL.

NIilitary-The -n-cOphagus Finally Ce-
mented, and the Great Scare Concluded.
The following particulars of the re-
interment of Guibord's remains in the
Catholic cemetery at Montreal, which
took place on the 10th inst. are given:
Early in the morning the Chief of po-
lice received instructions from the May
or to send a detachment of armed 20.
lice 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 to the
Protestant cemetery. Forty of the men
were armed with breech- loading rifles.
the remainder carrying their batons.
The volunteers turned out on the
Champ de Mars, in the following order:
| Victoria Rifles, numbering $50 men:
| Montreal Engineers, numbering about
80 files; the Sixth Hochelagas, humber.
| ing $50 men; the Prince of Wales Ri
| hes, numbering $50 men; the Garrison
Artillery, numbering 200 men; and Col.
| Stevens battery.
| At 10 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
gathering from all directions.
The police formed in a hollow 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.. Bois-
seau asked if those were the remains of
the late Joseph Guibord, kept by him for
six years, delivered up to him again on
the I'd of September, and returned to
him for safe keeping on the same day.
The sexton said they were the same.
The chief of police thereppon gave the
command shoulder arms" and the
funeral procession started, which at the
time consisted of a couple of carriages,
the police being the sole guardians. as
the military were far behind, never
going to the cemetery all.
The road to the Catholic cemetery
was crowded with people of all classes.
| In cabs, carts and on foot, while the
stream of vehicles which had been 90
ing west, to meet it, now doubled
| about, making a sort of lane for the
funeral procession to pass through.
Great quiet prevailed, and no one
| showed, by look, word or deed, any
hostility toward the procession. About
five minutes after the Catholic ceme-
/ terry gates had been taken down, the
funeral procession entered, portion of
the police preceding and the remainder
following the hearse. The military were
halted at the village of Cote des Neiges.
The crowd began gathering from
every direction, and ran with all
speed up the various avenues toward
the grave. The police formed a large
square around the grave and kept the
crowd back, while the coffin was
brought from the hearse, borne by four
men and placed in the center of the bed
of cement which had been prepared for
it. The process of filing the grave
then began. The moment the coffin
was lowered into the grave. the
work of mixing the cement with water
was commenced, and the workmen shov-
eled in the liquid cement, mingled with
odds and ends from the tin-shops and
scraps of sheet-iron. The comments of
/ the spectators were various as the work
went on.
Mr.. Comyre, a distant relative of the
deceased, said few words, bearing tes-
t1mony to deceased's excellent charac-
ter, and the esteem in which he was
held by those who knew him. The
speakers remarks were not received
with appreciation from a number of
people, who hooted at Mr.. Comyre.
| Beyond this there was nothing publicly
said on the side of the Institute Cana
/ no of %1o
,ected was SO unmistakable, and their
threats to dig Guibord's bones
out of the ground, if occasion
offered, so openly expressed that
Mr.. Boisseau determined to secure, if
possible, guard of police from the
mayor TO watch the grave for at least
four hours, thus giving the cement time
to harden into solid rock. The Mayor
and Judge Coursol had departed, on
seeing the burial quietly commenced,
and Mr.. Boisseau dispatched a special
messenger with note asking the Mayer
to provide protection, or else he feared
the grave would be opened. The May
or promptly consented to this, and wrote
out an order for sufficient body of po-
lice to be sent as guard till such time
| as the note required.
! The cement was filed in over the
coffin to near the surface, top dressing
of earth was piled III, and Guibord was
buried at last. A drizzling cold Novem-
Der rain beat down on the spectators
who witnessed the closing act in the
drama commenced six yeass ago. When
all WAS over the Chief of police rode up
in front OF the grave, the police formed
into two divisions, and marched off.
| A crowd of about $500 or 5000
men and boys then gathered around
the grave, and one of them, in
mockery, put dead thistle stalk at the
foot of it, which was snatched up by a
bystander, at whom they began to jeer.
They attempted nothing further for
some time, and looked rather uncom-
Portable, as the rain, which was then
falling had the effect of happening
their ardor. AS the last cab, contain
] ing Mr.. Boisseau, moved off, they
/ summed no sufficient resolution to hiss