Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — GOT THE WRONG MAN? [ARTICLE]

GOT THE WRONG MAN?

Laugh Would Be on the French Government if Conditions Were Less Serious. * TROOPS TRY TO ARREST ALBERT \ Think They Have Him, It Seems, but He Gets Awav. fib. Mobs Are Plentiful In the Wise Grow, ing District and Incendiary Feeling la Made Very Manifest at Narbonne. Paris, June 20.—The French government concluded to actvlgorously In the matter of the winegrowers’ revolt and ordered the arrest of Marcelin Albert, head of the agitation, and M. Ferroul, mayor of Narbonne, a red-hot partison of Albert. The show of military was imposing, and the arrests were* made with little*resistance. Albert dramatically declared that It took 10,000 men to arrest him alive. All fear of bloodshed In the Midi seemed to have been removed by the government’s vigorous measures, although considerable effervescehe was reported at Narbonne and other centers. The revolutionaries, however, were deprived of their active leaders, who are now under lock and key. ,

Has the Police Got the Wrong Man? .The movement appeared to be entering upon its last phase, the. evidence being the fact that a number of the mayors, on hearing of' the arrests of the ringleaders, withdrew their resignations and resumed the functions of their offices. The principal center of disaffection, Narbohne, Is now occupied by 10,000 troops, against whom the populace la greatly incensed, refusing to receive the cavalry horses in their stables and hooting and pelting the officers, and in one Instance, bunting a wagon load of forage on Its way to the cavalry quarters. Premier Clemenceau had not received confirmation of the arrest of Marcelin Albert, the leader of the disturbing element, and was inclined to believe that another of the leaders has been arrested by mistake in his stead. , Things Not What They Seemed. But late at night Premier Clemenceau received grave news from the Midi where the exasperation of the people was reported increasing. Messages to the premier came indirectly, via Lyons, Indicating that the wires had been cut. The ArgeUlers committee has been reconstituted, a third committee being named in case the members of the second committee also are arrested. It is now certain that Marcelin Albert has not been arrest- - . ' y- : ' ■ '‘-i •-•- '

ed, and It is admitted that the police have no idea of his whereabouts. A dispatch from Montpellier aays: “Serious rioting broke out here, lasting all evening. The mob attempted to burn down the door of the prison and rescue the prisoners. The troops were turned out, but were received with volleys of stones aqd bottles. Troopers were pullpd off their horses and crabbed. A prominent police official was seriously wounded by a broken bottle. Many soldiers were less seriously injured.” Incendiary Mob at Narbonne. From Narbonne comes the following: "A violent mob from the outlying villages gathered here. They poured petroleum over the door of the subprefecture, which they set on fire, but were driven off after repeated charges by the troops. In the course of the fighting the manifestants fired revolvers, but no one was hit. The disorder was augmented by the absence of lights, the mob having cut the electric (cables. In other parts of the town barricades were erected. These were stormed by the troops and torn down, only to be set up again by the rioters.”