St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06
HOW BAzAINE ESCAPED.
His Wife Arranged the Details
and Carried Them Into Sue.
cessful Execution.

His Wife Arranged the Details
and Carried Them Into Sue
cessful Execution.
None of the accounts of Marshal Ba-
zaine's life publishe,i on this side of the
water has given the story of his re-
markable escape from his island
prison. There has been always an
air of mystery about that point. A
prominent Parisian-American. who is
just now sOjourning in Boston, gave
Herald reporter the following account
of the escape, which he vouches for as
the truth about it. He doesn't believe
that the authorities cOnnived i'll it, as
appears from his story:
'.After the sentence of the court
martial, which was capital punish
ment, had been committed to imprisOn-
ment for twenty years-a life sentence
for man Sixty-tWO-BaZaine was sent
to the island of Ste. Marguerite. The
fortress was built in the time OF
Richlieu, who bought the island in
1857, and it was repaired on
the plans of Vauban. 1t Is famous
for having harbOred the mysterious man
with the iron mask. i know the fortress
well. Its wall falls perpendicularly on
the wave-beaten rocks, and is not
higher than the hill, having from the
sea the aspect of head knocked in be-
ween its shoulders. BaZaine had rela-
tive freedom. The director, MIR march,,
had orders never to take his hat off
to him, and he opened his letters, but
Nine. BaZaine and the children could
call every day, and the prisoner and
jailer were on good terms. Nine. Ba-
zaine was Mexican Miss Josepha de
Do, ha handSnlnn
brave, and ambitious. She told the
disgraced marshal that he would
have to yield to her supplica-
lions to escape, or she would cease to
call on him. Then they brought play
things for the children in his cell, and
out of them made knotted rope. Mon
day was appointed for the flight. The
marshal usually walked up and down
the courtyard with the director
every evening until 8. That
night he feigned illness, asked
to return to his cell an hour earlier, and
the director went in search of the
jailer. The jailer came and locked the
gate of the empty cell. At IL BaZaine
came out of his hiding place and fixed
the rope to a projecting tile. At day
break an accomplice united the rope
and threw it in the sea. At 8 o'clock
lIG dShtu lOl tilO WIN
was usually out of his cell early, opened
the door and found the cage empty.
mime. BaZaine had gone to man
who owed her husband his life, and
found him grateful. They arranged
the details together. She went to
Genoa under false name, and leased
for 1000 francs day little Italian
steamer for an excursion to Naples,
STIMULATING that the voyage might last
a week. The vessel was no sooner at
sea than she asked the captain to go TO
Cannes for her sister-in-law. Sunday
night they were in the Juan gulf. Nine.
Bazaine landed. Her devoted accom-
plice was waiting for her in boat on
the Croisette promenade, and they
went across the pass between
the continent and the island OF
st. Marguerite. Her husband was
there, on the rocks, his clothes torn, his
face and hands covered with blood.
steamer, Nine. BaZaine told the cap
tain that her Sister-in-law was too ill to
come, and introduced the marshal, say
ing: Having no servant, / have taken a
valet. That idiot has fallen OH the
rocks. Please send him with the sailors
to be dressed and made presentable.'
BaZaine went to bed in the Steerage.
The next day they were on the high
seas. Then Nine. Bazaine, feigning
sickness, asked to be brought back to
Genoa. The news of the flight had
reached there, the mob yelled in front
of the hotel, and the travellers had to
make their escape by a secret door. The
marshal went to Madrid, where he lived
in solitude and poverty. His wife and
children, who should have stood by him,
have long ago returned to Mexico. One
of the marshal's accuSerS at the trial
was, it is interesting to note now,
d'Audlau, who lately fled from France
to avoid the results of his trading in
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