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could not corne too soon. Being only a private, I did not like to interfère without permission. I applied to Capt. Globensky, who at once gave me permission to do whatever I found necessary for his comfort consistant with his safe keeping.
I hope thèse examples (I could easily increase the number) will prove sufficient to set at rest any doubts regarding Captain Globensky’s humanity.
Regarding the death of Dr Chénier, I did not witness it, but I understood that he was shot while attempting to escape. The cause which he attenipted to support having become hopeless, it was his duty to use any means still in his power to save his life. It is a poor tribute to his memory to represent him as having com- mitted an act which vvould hâve been simply suicide as he is represented to hâve rushed out of the church sword in hands, in face of the troops. I heard no such story at the time. The report to which you allude, of his heart having been paraded through the village on the point of a bayonet, is an act which would not hâve been for a moment tolerated by the men composing the force at that time in St-Eustache ; it is most certainly untrue. I saw and recognized the body of Dr Chénier at Addison’s hôtel about 20 hours after his death, it was decently laid out and covered, I do not beleive any such inhuman acts as you mention, were conamitted or would hâve been tolerated.
Regarding Girod’s flight from St-Eustache to St-Benoit, ail I can say regarding it, is what I often heard narrated
