THE ARREST OF ROCHEFORT.
The " Times" correspondent says : — Never have I witnessed a scone of greater excitement than th« entry of Rochefort into Versailles as a prisoner to day. He was brought in by the St. Germain Road and was sealed in a family omnibus drawn by two horses. First came a squadron of of gendarmes, then the omnibus surrounded by Chas seurs d'Afriquc, and lastly a squadron of the same corps. In the vehicle with Bochefort were his secretary, Muuriot, and four police agents dressed in plain clothes. Outside the omnibus were an officer of the gendarmerie in uniform, and two or three sergents dc-vitte not in uniform. Eochofort's moustache had disappeared. He had himself shaved closely before setting out from Paris in order to disguise himself, but there was no mistaking him. It was half-past one when the cortege, arriving at the end of tho Boulevard dv Roi, entered the Rue des Reservoirs. Everyone ran into the street, and shouts of execration were raised on all sides. Jt was no mere demonstration of a mob. One man ventured to cry " Vive JRochefort!" He was kicked by several persons who happened to be near him, and was saved from further violence only by arrest at the bunds of the sergents deviUe. Along the Rue des Kesvoirs, the Rue de la Pompe, the Place, Iloche, the Rue de Hoche, and the Avenue St. Cloud, Rocheforl was greeted with incessant shouts of A has V assasin ; a pied la le brigand ; a vwrt." The people wanted to have him out of the omnibus and it was with difficulty the cavalry prevented them from dragging him out and inflicting summary execution. The cavalcarle \»as obliged to go at a slow pace, but finally he ivas lodged in gaol. I believe that but for the pro cautions taken by the Government he would have been killed before he had got near it. The demand to have an example made of him, and the dissatisfaction at seeing him brought to prison in a carriage, were loud and general.
Something- mice Dispatch. — Tho barque Coronilla has arrived at Lytfelton with the necessary plant for the Canterbury Great Northern Railway.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3277, 14 August 1871, Page 3
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THE ARBEST OF ROCHEFORT.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3277, 14 August 1871, Page 3
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