THE SENTENCED FRENCH COMMUNISTS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 7, 14 October 1871, Page 3

THE SENTENCED FRENCH COMMUNISTS.

The following is a brief record of some of the Communist prisoners that a cable despatch informs us have been sentenced : T. Ferre, sentenced to, death, is described as 25 to 29 years of age. He was delegate to the Prefecture of the Police, and as such, superintended the execution of Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, and the other hostages. A document was produced in Court, which Ferre pronounced a forgery, hut which was sworn to be in his handwriting, ordering the burning of the Ministry of the Interior, t Luliere,'sentenced to deatlr, was an exnaval lieuferfant, and was actively associated with the burnings. Urbain, imprisoned for life with hard labor, was the Communal Mayor of the 7th Arromlissemeut, and it was proven in evidence that lie' made use of his office to levy requisitions of jewellery, etc., which he presented to his mistress, Madame Leroy. Urbain was formerly a schoolmaster, and it was he who originated the proposal to shoot the hostages. Assi, to deportation and imprisonment within a fortress, was a member of the Commune Central Committee. It was Assi who, although he denied having been the instigator of the murder of the hostages, defended the act in open court as only one of retaliation. r . r Billoray, deportation and imprisonment in a fortress, was a member of the Commune Central Committee, and took part in the voting for the murder qf the hostages and firing the city. Rcgerc, a veterinary surgeon, was a member of fh6 Internationals, and editor of the Tribune, de la Gironde. He was held responsible for the destruction of Thiers’ house. His sentence is deportmeut and imprisonment in a fortress. Paschal Grousset, sentenced to the same as the preceding, was the Communist Minister for Foreign Affairs. Verdure, sentence the same as the five previous, was - cashier to the Marsellaisc newspaper, and among the charges in his acte d'accusation was that he voted for the destruction of the Column Vendome, and the murder of the hostages. Jourde, sentenced to simple deportation, was the Communist Minister of Finance, and it was alleged that, in addition to usurping a public function, he made improper use of the State’s money. Courbet, a member of the Commune Committee, a painter, sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, appears to have been let off so easily, because it was shown that lie' voted against most of the Commune’s odious decrees, and prevented the destruction of some of the works of arts in the Louvre. Parent, acquitted, was not proven to have taken a prominent part during the reign of terror, and M. Etienne Arago, late Mayor of Paris, gave testimony of his valued assistance during the siege of the city by tho Germans.— S. F. Bulletin.