A few hours later, the prison was attacked by an angry crowd com= Posed chiefly of factory workers, who made no secret of their inten= tion to seize Barataud and lynch 'They tried to break down tha door, pelted the police and soldiers with stones, put wire across the streets to trip' up the bortes, and opend the sewer gratings for the same purpose. The fight last-about six hours and. resulted in injuries to over 200 men. The Jonel commanding the gendarmes was hit on the head with a dig Several cavalry horsea their legs and had to be dee~ Another attack, of a less [serious nature, was made next evening on the prison, and tha authorities deemed it advisable prevent further trouble by sending the prisoner away, He was accord ingly removed in the dead of night to Poitiers, a quiet town without the Inrge number of factory workers who had such splendid "scraps" it Limoges.
"Such expressions of popular dignation are rare. Apparently the people of Limoges are not so hlesé about strange verdicts as are their fellow-citizens in Paris. The root of the trouble is the mentality which tries to regulate the operation of the law down to the smallest detail and leave nothing to chan? or to the human element, A Week of ess We have just come to the and of a "week of kindness," that is to say, a week during which various meetings and entertainments were
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