Forty-five persons accused murder, barton, robbery and breaches of the peace are now on their way from French Guiana to Nantes for trial before the Loire Inférieuro Assizes. In August of ast year, when feeling in the colony van very high in consequence of rumours that election returns had been falsified, M. Jean Galmot, who formerly sat for Guiana in' the Chamber of Deputies, was found dead in bed. A post-mortem examination Galmot's woman servant. As soon as the news of his death was known, treat fighting began in the streets of Cayenne between his followers and the supports the—local administration, of which M, Galmot keen critic. Few troops and were available, and for throe days and nights the town was in a state of chaos. Houses were burned down, and'six lives were lost. Some of M. Galmot's opponents found the situation so alarming, that they left the colony.
'When the local authorities regained the upper hand, they made mumerous arrests, ineltding the servant, who with other women, and M. Galmot's principal supporters, who, were held responsible for the' riot ing, 'The usual elaborate preliminary inquiry was caryled out, but as there could be no hope of an impartial verdict from a local jury, it was decided to send the accused, the witnesses, numbering nearly 100, and the' documents, weighing. in all more than two' tons, to France, for trial. "The, ease" will occupy the attention of the assize court for at least three weeks and the cost to the taxpayers is estimated at £15,000,
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