Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-15

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sired above everything, and which care FOL
above everything else, that is to preserve
my dignity. l care nothing for popularity
and have never sought it; it has come to
me, and | have always avoided every kind
of demonstration. All that IS IN that
article is inexact never took the tirs1
steps IN my behalf.
The director of the Voltaire here OBJ
served that it was not said he had person
ally taken any step in the affair, but that
intercession had been made for him, OF
which he was not ignorant.
"That is not so, answered Rochefort,
81 am too careful of nay dignity to have
authorized those steps. | even forbade my
friends TO make any. My sisters, and my
daughter. who was then but IL years old,
were verg uneasy I learned that my sis
ters wished to inJerceGe in my behalf, and
I wrote them a letter, when must now
exist. that if they took the first step IN the
matter. I would never see them again. I
did not know Mr. Alfred Jolly when he
took charge OF my defense, and there was
nothing astonishing since he was but 20
years of age. It was a fine opportunity
for him, for it is to my case he owes his
NAUTICAL fortune and election to the Cham
Der. There were many others who would
have undertaken my defense. Gatineau
for instance, who is good fellow, although
Opuorsunist. I did not take Lachaud for
nv LAWYER, and ! never saw him but once,
and that accidentally during my imprison-
pen5. have known Lachaud for long
time; he is good fellow, although Bona
nartist. He pleaded for me once in duel
affair. at time he had not yet become a
Bonapartist. He came to the prison to see
Courbet whom he was TO defend, when
he perceived me at my cellwindow. Oh,
no! Rochefort.' he cried All, well,
brigand, you are in pretty sheets you are
going to pass the first, and you will surely
be condemned to death if some one does not
look after you. Who is your lawyer 2
l answered that l did not have any, and
he proposed to find me one. 1t was the
chaplain of the prison at Versailles who
was the first to speak to me of Albert
Jolly. He told me that he knew young
lawyer VINO lived in the same house as
himself, on M0ntbauron street. and that he
very much desired to defend me- 1t was
then he took my affair in hand. never
charged him with any intercession In my
behalf, and can even say that he pleaded
very poorly. / owed no gratitude to AL
bert Jolly. paid aim, and he even
BEHAVED VERY BADLY
Toward me. On entering prison I gave
eight thousand francs in charge of the Re-
corder 1 afterward gave two thousand for
Jolly and Lachaud, who had given me a
Lachaud refused that
and I know that Jolly kept it. He
had in fact a very bad reputation in the
colony. More than thirty of the dePortes
me that he always asked money
in advance before he would take charge of
an affair; that he took all he could get
fifty or hundred francs-and that women
had been obliged to sell their underclothes
and mattresses in order to pay him. -
THAT is probably why, y observed the
director, he died so rich. " Now, Albert
Jolly, when he died, was anything but rich.
q took so few steps, continued Roche
fort, Sin my behalf that / would not
even take advantage of the offers OF Victor
Hugo. He came to see me, and l could
not prevent his interceding in my favor.
He asked for and obtained permission to
have me taken to Fort Sainte Marguerite,
where later Bazaine was imprisoned, ana
the masons had already commenced the
reparations When I learned that wro
to the Prime Minister to say TO him that
would accept no favor, that | had be
condemned to deportation. and that
wished to 90 to Fort Bayard with the re G
of the condemned. At Fort B0yard
found myself with about eighty Arabs,
who had been condemned for participation
in the insurrection of 1871, provoked by
the officers, who wished to suppress an in
government was necessary in Algiers.
Among those Arabs there were some dis
tinguished men, chiefs and marabouts, who
suffered a great deal, and they died off like
flies. I wrote to my friend Edmond Adam
to ask him to intercede for them. Nine.
Adam can tell you such is true. Edmond
Adam, who often saw Mr. THEIRS, informed
him while dining with him OF what | had
written him, and Mr.. Theirs, who occupied
himself a great deal about me, said to
him Tell Rochefort to write to me- On
receiving Adams letter I took up my pen,
but had not written three lines when |
tore the letter up. | could not decide
on calling Theirs Monsieur lie President,
and of giving him the assurance of my re-
spect. so much the worse for the A.abs,
l said; 1 am in prison and they can remain
there also At the deportation l was al
ways careful to set a good example. At
Nouvelle Caledonia, we were forced not
to drink wine: at the beginning some of
the deportes who had earned little money
by works of genius, began to drink and be-
come intoxicated, and so as to set them the
example we drank nothing but water-an
ugly yellow water which gave US collie.
COULDN'T GO TO THE FUNERAL.
I could not go to Albert Joly's funeral.
[, however, hesitated an instant, and that
which decided me not to was the persist
ence of one of my editors-he who fur
nishes information for my journal. He is
little bit Gambettish, but am forced to
have him, for one knows nothing when he
is not Gambettish He furnishes me infor-
nation without any political coloring, and
he told me they counted on seeing me at
the funeral, that they wished to entrap
me, and SO l remained away. I would not
really go and listen to the lucubrations of
a Langlois or of Deves, who would not
have refrained from preaching Cancellation
over the tomb of Albert JOY, and who
knows if Gambetta himself would not have
profted by the occasion. l did not wish
TO take part in sort of Lamourette kiss. p"
But, observed the director of the
FoUaire, that did not exempt you from
expressing a word of regret in your jour
nal. Your silence and your abstention
have surprised everybody, even your
friends"
az remained two days without going to
the Journal, and all my editors, who are
former galley slaves, former deporteS, could
not commend and honor man who had
twice voted against amnesty. 1 could not
90 to the funeral. 1 owed as much to my
readers and to my position. could not
risk having my journal fall to three thou
sand" On rising, he finished by saying
8. l shall answer tomorrow. My answer
will be very dry. but not coarse. / do not
like coarseness." And SO he left without
saluting any one.
Mr.. Alfred Duquet, lawyer at the
Coar FAppei, immediately after wrote a
letter to the Voltaire. in which he stated
that Mr.. Albert Jolly had, while dining at