New-York tribune., 1900-01-05
SENTENCES FOR AGITATORS
PUNISHMENT METED OUT BY THE
FRENCH HIGH COURT.
BANIsHMENT FOR DERoULEDE AND BUF-
FET. IMPRISONMENT FOR GUERIN-
MORE THEATRICAL DISPLAYS.

MORE THEATRICAL DISPLAYS.
Paris. Jan. 4-The High Court (senate) in
secret session to-day condemned NM. Buffet
and Deroulede to ten years banishment. NJ.
Guerin was sentenced to ten years confinement
in a fortified place. The Marquis de Lur
Saluces was sentenced to ten years Danish
ment
The Marquis, who is a well known Royalist.
and who was formerly member of the Cham
Der Of Deputies, convicted in default of ap
pearance. 1t is not known where he is. but it
is believed that he is outside of French terri
tory. He represented the Gironde in the Ma
tional Assembly of 1871, and at one time held
the rank of Chief of Battalion in the Terri
toria1 army.
When the High Court opened its public ses-
sion the president of that body M Fallieres
read the decisions which had been reached yes
terday. The prisoners who were acquitted
thereupon rose and shook hands with MN.
Derouede, Buffet and Guerin. Then, raising
various shouts, they left the hall.
The court afterward entered on a secret
sion, during which they decided the sentences
of the convicted prisoners, already
nounced.
NJ. Deroulede, still weak from his illness,
tered the hall leaning M. Barillier's arm.
Among the public NJ Deroulede's daugh-
ter and brother and quite number of women
friends of the prisoners.
After the reading of yesterdays decisions M
Fallieres ordered the expulsion of the
quilted, and the Public Prosecutor asked for
the application of sentences against the con-
Victed
NJ. Buffets counsel, M Normand, followed in
behalf of his client, and began to expatiate on
the latter's sentiments, when M Fallieres
stopped him and told the lawyer to keep to the
question of the sentence.
We'll" said M. Normand strike my client
so that the country may judge the extent Of the
hate and fear which animate you'll"
NJ. Fallieres interrupted counsel with the re-
mark
You are insulting the Court"
M. Normand rejoined: IN. Buffet leaves this
court greater than he entered it, and he will
become greater still in prison"
NJ. Buffet then said: You have dealt me a
blow. Thank you! You have condemned the
Government twelve times, and I thank you
twelve times! 1 do not want to benefit by the
Berenger law. If there were street demonstra-
tiOns tomorrow 1 would take part in them.
do not want pity or indulgence"
NJ. Deroulede then rose and said:
Since you have coupled with the valiant
Royalist Buffet. and the courageous Anti Sem
ite. Guerin, 1 will share their pain. But, how
ever hard may be the sentence, however distant
IHe eAllei WHICH is even more cruel IO1 me, a
patriot and a soldier l will return. I will re-
turn when justice returns. l shall be free when
the nation becomes free. am here by Loubet's
orders. Strike me, theni Accomplish the act
which will remain iDdelble shame the
history of the Parliament. Vive TArmee Ma
tionale! Vive la Republique du Peuple"
NJ. Deroulede was listened to in profound
silence, but his passionate utterances caused
great sensation.
NJ. Guerin said he did not wish to make any
further defence He would not utter word of
repentance or appeal for indulgence adding:
However hard my trials and sufferings; I
will say to my friends. Courage! Confldence!'" !"
M. Deroulede again rose and said:
Il desire for the first time to shake hands
with these men. | met them here, and have
learned to esteem them!"
M. Derouiede then shook hands with NM
Buffet and Guerin.
NJ. Buffet cried This is the first and, per-
haps, the last time"
NJ. Guerin said: 1T is the first time In
agreement"
M Deroulede shouted sarcastically:
Yes, here is the conspiracy
The secret session then began, and the SEN
tences were announced later
There were few cries Of ''Vtve Deroulede!
and "A bas Loubetr' from the audience, after
the sentences were pronounced, but the demon
stration was quite insignificant Although the
anti-Semite press is making fuss over the out
come, the tactics of the anti-Semites are shown
by the sensational caption, Murder OF Derou-
lede," in their afternoon organ, LIE Cocarde'
which secured a few purchasers. who were dls-
gusted to find it only meant what the National
lists affect to consider the legal murder or
Deroulede
To-day's decision condemns the convicted men
to pay the costs of the prosecution. The
sentences took effect Immediately
1t is asserted that Deroulede was hurried to
the train and Immediately dispatched toward
the Spanish frontier, he having decided to live
at San Sebastian.
M Gueran Will be removed to a French
fortress probab bly, on the island of Oleron off
the West Coast NJ. Buffet will go to Belgium
Paris, jan 3, $50 a. MINI Buffet and
Deroulede left Paris by the Northern Railway at
3 o'clock this morning.