The poor fellow was arrested by his pursuers and massacred.

The pikeman coolly said to us: 'I couldn't know they wanted to kill him.'"] [Footnote 3187: Granier de Cassagnac, II.

511.] [Footnote 3188: The judges and slaughterers at the Abbaye, discovered in the trial of the year IV., almost all lived in the neighborhood, in the rues Dauphine, de Nevers, Guegenaud, de Bussy, Childebert, Taranne, de l'Egout, du Vieux Colombier, de l'Echaude-Saint-Benoit, du Four-Saint-Germain, etc.] [Footnote 3189: Sicard, 86, 87, 101 .-- Jourdan, 123.

"The president of the committee of supervision replied to me that these were very honest persons; that on the previous evening or the evening before that, one of them, in a shirt and wooden shoes, presented himself before their committee all covered with blood, bringing with him in his hat twenty-five louis in gold, which he had found on the person of a man he had killed."-- Another instance of probity may be found in the "Proces-verbaux du conseil-general de la Commune de Versailles," 367, 371 .-- On the following day, Sept.

3, robberies commence and go on increasing.] [Footnote 3190: Mehee, 179.