The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-05
MAN WHO DEFIED FRENCH GOV
ERNMENT FOR MANY WEEKS
Is SEVERELY PUNISHED
SENSATION In The HIGH COURT
M. DEROULEDE DRAMATICALLY
DENOUNCEs THE ACTION OF
HIS JUDGES
COUNSEL CALLED TO ORDER
Presiding Officer Commands That
the Government Be Treated With
Ordinary Respect-Daughters Of
Prisoner and Many Ladies Pres
ent When Sentence Was Pro-
nounced-No Chance for Outbreak.


ent When Sentence Was Pro-
nounced-No Chance for Outbreak.
PARIS, Jan. 4.-The high court (senate),
in secret session today, condemned NM.
Buffet and Deroulede to ten years ban.
ishment. M. Guerin was sentenced to ten
years confinement in fortified place.
M. Saluces was sentenced to ten years
banishment.
M. Deroulede, still weak from his ILL
ness, entered the hall, leaning on IA.
Bariller's arm. Among the public were
M. Deroulede's daughters and brother,
and quite a number of women friends of
the prisoners. After the reading of yes
terday's decisions M. Fallieres ordered the
expulsion of the men acquitted, and the
public prosecutor asked for the applica-
ton of sentences against the convicted.
M Buffet's counsel, M. Normand, fol-
to dwell upon the latters sentiments,
when M. Fallieres stopped him and told
the lawyer to keep to the question of the
sentence.
WELL, said NJ Normand, "strike my
client, so that the country may judge the
extent of the hate and fear which ami
mate you.'
M. Fallieres interrupted counsel, say
ing:
"You are insulting the COURT
M. Normand rejoined: I'M. Buffet leaves
this court greater than he entered it, and
he may become greater still in prison"
M. Buffet then said:
you have dealt me a blow. Thank
you. You have condemned the govern
ment twelve times, and you twelve times
l do not want the benefit Of the Beringer
law. If there were street demonstra-
tions tomorrow l would take part in
them. 1 do not want pity or indulgence y
SENSATIONAL SCENE.
M. Deroulede then rose and said:
"Since you have coupled me with the
valiant koyalist Buffet and the eour-
ageous anti-Semite, Guerin, I will share
their pain. But, however hard may be
the SENTENCE however distant the exile,
which is even more cruel for me, a pa
triot and a soldier, 1 will return. I will
return when justice returns. 1 shall be
free when the nation becomes free. I
am here by Loubet's orders. Strike me
then. Accomplish the act which will re-
main an indelible shame on the history
Of the parliament Vive Parmee ma
tionale Vive la republique du peuple!"
M. Deroulede was listened to in pro-
found silence, but his passionate utter
ances caused a great sensation.
M. Guerin said he did not wish to make
any further defense. He would not
utter word of repentance or appeal for
indulgence, adding:
However hard my trials and suffer-
ings, l will say to my friends, 'Cour-
age! Confidencen"
M. Deroulede again rose and said:
'I desire for the first time to shake
hands with these men. l met them
here and I have learned to esteem
them
M Dereoulede then shook hands with
NM Buffet and Guerin.
M Buffet cried:
'This is the first and perhaps the last
time
M Guerin said:
1T is the first time we are in agree
ment."
M. Deroulede shouted sarcastically:
Eyes, here is the conspiracy"
The secret session then began and the
sentences were announced later.
NM. Buffet and Derouiede left Paris
by the Northern railway at s O'clock