was carrying a child. Two soldiers aimed at her. One said, "At the

woman!" And he brought down the woman. The child rolled on the pavement.

The other soldier said, "At the child!" And he killed the child.

A man of high scientific repute, Dr. Germain Sée, declares that in one

house alone, the establishment of the Jouvence Baths, there were at six

o'clock, beneath a shed in the courtyard, about eighty wounded, nearly

all of whom (seventy, at least) were old men, women, and children. Dr.

Sée was the first to attend to them.

In the Rue Mandar, there was, stated an eye-witness, "a rosary of

corpses," reaching as far as the Rue Neuve Saint Eustache. Before the

house of Odier twenty-six corpses. Thirty before the hotel Montmorency.

Fifty-two before the Variétés, of whom eleven were women. In the Rue

Grange-Batelière there were three naked corpses. No. 19, Faubourg

Montmartre, was full of dead and wounded.

A woman, flying and maddened, with dishevelled hair and her arms raised

aloft, ran along the Rue Poissonnière, crying, "They kill! they kill!

they kill! they kill! they kill!"

The soldiers wagered. "Bet you I bring down that fellow there." In this

manner Count Poninsky was killed whilst going into his own house, 52,

Rue de la Paix.

I was anxious to know what I ought to do. Certain treasons, in order to

be proved, need to be investigated. I went to the field of murder.

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