The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-02
THE DEAD SOLDIER.
Gen. BouIanger's Whining Fare
well to His Followers.
HE SAYS He WAS PROSECUTED.
Would Have Preferred Death on the
BattIefieId-A Civic Funeral to
Take Place Saturday.

BRUSSELS. Oct I-Thiebaud, LAur, Dumontel
and Castelar, arrived here today at the same
moment as Rochefort, to attend the funeral of
Boulanger.
The political testament of the dead general
was read today at private meeting of his
friends in the Hotel Rue Montorer. The text of
ii is as follows
sire that il be published after my death. shall
kill myself tomorrow. / am convinced of the
future OF the party to which l have given my
name. / cannot bear the frightful misfortune
which befeIl me two and hall months
ago have tried to get the
better of it, but have not succeed.
! am persuaded that my followers, who are so
devoted anu numerous, viii bear me no anger
Tor disappearing on account OF sorrow SO great
that all work becomes impossible to me. Let
them remember me as tho dpatso, non dspcst utter,
aud may they continue then 10 act against those
who in scorn of all laws force me to die far from
my country. Tomorrow / shall be dead man.
Today have nothing to reproach myself with.
All my life / have done my duty and nothing
but my duty. Ny death is no shame to my
self, but 1t is a shame for my pro-
serlbers, those who sought to brand loyal
solder by the Judgment OF political tribunal
times offered to constitute myself a prisoner II
they would accord me common Law judges The
holders OF power have always refused inus
aequlttal was not possible
In quitting life have one regret, that have
not died on the field of battle, fighting Tor my
country. That country at least will permit one
OF It's Children at the moment OF returning into
nothingness, TO recall himself to the memory OF
all lovers of La Patrie. Vive La Franee Vive
la Republique
Done anu signed under my hand on the eve
OF the day of my death. ERNEST BoULANGER.
The funeral which will be purely civil cere-
mony, will take place Saturday afternoon. The
clergy have refused to officiate
PARIS, Oct. members of the so-called Boul-
angst party say they are convinced Boulanger's
Mime. Bonnemain had over him, and whom they
do not scrupple to call very hard names for
what they term her cowardice and 'love of
ease" But in spite of these facts it seems
to be certain that Nine. Bonnemain had
received supposedly trustworthy information
that the life of General Boulanger was in actual
danger when she persuaded him to fly from
France 1t Is also admitted that, though placed
in an awkward and difficult position, Nine,
Bonnemain was both liked and respected by al
most all her intimate friends. Her devotion 10
the cause of Boulanger was absolute and unre-
uniting, and he seems to have fully recognized
this, for, when following her coffin to the grave,
Boulanger repeated somberly to three friends
who accompanied him: ''She was all had left,
and now she is also taken from me-
The main, in fact, practically the only news
feature OF the newspapers today, is the suicide
of General Boulanger. All the papers agree that
the death OF Boulanger will not affect the politi-
cal situation.
The wife of General Boulanger, who 10 living
atVersailles, was overcome with grief when in
formed of her husbands death in the cemetery
near Brussels