Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-22
Statistics OF the Commune.

Paris Correspondence NelO York Tribune
Between the Sd OF April and the 10Th OF
tween the National and Commune soldiers,
$500 OF the latter were taken prisoners.
From the 2lst 10 the 2Sth OF May-the week
OF the bloody struggle In Paris-26 600 prison
ers were seized and marched 10 Versailles
In June and July 5000 other arrests were
made by the military authorities and its
agents From August, 1871, 10 May, 1872,
numerous others were arrested by the civil
police In Paris and the departments, and for
The most part gradually forwarded TO Yer.
sailles as fast as the incumbered prison.
room there was vacated. The number of
persons arrested in consequence of the in
surrection was about $4,000, of whom 5000
were soldiers, $50 women, and $50 children OF
sixteen years and under. The councils of
war had TO decide on the IA te OF AZ DAB persons
Tor the names of them), OF whom S4 were
women and 541 children. or this mass 10 4JO
have been condemned TO hard labor, trans
portation, Punishment, or confinement in
various kinds OF prisons for various terms.
But OF these Is, $50, nearly one-fourth-that
is, 3,3l3, having He'd the country, or life per-
haps, at least arrest-were condemned 1aT
cOr.ttnndce, Platonic penalty, so TO speak.
Among other contumacious persons are I75
the eye OF justice, and get nominally Sc
verer penalty than they would really eaten
had they appeared in person before the tri-
bunal There were niIety-fve condemna-
tons 10 death pronounced against pris-
onerS in hand, but of these only nine
were pushed to bloody execution on
the plain OF Sartory. The lest had
their penalties committed TO hard labor
or imprisonment for life, to transportation,
&C. No one was executed merely for having
been an insurgent, however active, or even
member OF the insurgent government. Ros-
sci, with another soldier, was shot, not as
Mr.. Evarts said at the Beecher trial, and
as many other well informed persons sup
pose, by judgment for having executed the
chief justice OF France well enough 10 oo-
serve in passing, that no magisterial Office
in France give 10 the holder OF IL the title OF
chief justice, and that NJ. Bonjean was not
the hrst or presiding judge of the Court OF
Cassation) and the archbishop OF Paris, with
whose execution Rossel had nothing what
ever TO do, but as military deserter. Others
OF the nine were executed as murderers for
the part they took in the killing OF the
hostages or other persons. To resume: It
appears from the utterly trustworthy report
OF General Appert that AZ .273 persons, or their
names, furnished for trials 10 the councils OF
war, but $3.50, less than one-third, were
condemned to any penalty. OF the Others,
tive Imprisonment, were set at liberty from
time to time as the tardy preliminary ex-'
aminations failed TO discover any grounds
ON which eliminating charges against them
could be made TO rest; some thousands had
not been caught; 7Ss died awaiting trial;
1881 have been pardoned. Finally, of the
Is, $50 condemped, leo, according 10 Appert
report, were reDJIS de jlGSttoe-'old offenders"
as we should say, individuals who for polfti-
cal or uncivil crimes and offenses had pre-
viously undergone trial and conviction TO
various penalties by the ordinary courts OF
Justice.