The mob mustered, and raging with fury, surrounded the guard-house of the Gros-Caillou.

The two invalids underwent an interrogatory.

The moment when they left the guard-house, to be conveyed to the Hotel-de-Ville, the populace rushed upon them, tore them from the soldiers who were escorting them, rent them in pieces, and their heads, placed on the tops of pikes, were carried by a band of ferocious children to the environs of the Palais Royal.
XII.
The news of these murders, confusedly spread and variously interpreted in the city, in the Assembly, among various groups, excited various feelings, according as it was viewed as a crime of the people or a crime of its enemies.

The truth was only made apparent long after.

The agitation increased from the indignation of some and the suspicions of others.