were ordered to take place. … That many wounded have been buried alive I have not the slightest doubt. One case I can vouch for. When Brunel was shot with his mistress on the 24th ult., in the courtyard of a house in the Place Vendome, the bodies lay there until the afternoon of the 27th. When the burial party came to remove the corpses, they found the woman living still, and took her to an ambulance. Though she had received four bullets, she is now out of danger.
Other details of the capitalist atrocities during the "Bloody Week" appeared in the capitalist papers of Paris. A few extracts gleaned at random are here given:—
In the early morning a thick cordon of troops is drawn in front of the Chatelet Theater, where sits a prevotal court. From time to time groups of fifteen to twenty persons, composed of national guards, civilians, women, and children fifteen or sixteen years old, are seen coming out of the theater. They were taken in arms (?) or "otherwise convicted of participation in the resistance." Death is their sentence. They walk two by two, surrounded by chasseurs, and, following the quay, soon reach the Loban barracks. A minute later a musketry fire is heard: they are dead.—From the Paris Débats, May 31, 1871.
It is at the Bourse [Stock Exchange; a fit place, to be sure, for this sort of business] that there was to-day the largest number of executions. The doomed men who attempted to resist were bound to the iron railing.—From the Paris Français, May 28, 1871.
The Military School and the Monceau Park have been transformed into prisons. Executions are also taking place there. Some of the doomed men are displaying extraordinary indifference and energy. Compelled to pass over the corpses of those who have already been shot, they jump quite smartly.—From the Paris Petite Presse, May 26, 1871.
In the Madelaine church, our soldiers did not rest until they had killed with the bayonet every one of the many insurgents who had taken refuge there.—From the Paris Soir.
