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This package was taken to the police station. It was opened,
and in it were found two printed dialogues, signed Lahau-
tiere, a song entitled: ‘Workmen, band together,’ and a tin
box full of cartridges.
One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter
feel him to see how warm he was; the other man felt a pistol
under his waistcoat.
In a ditch on the boulevard, between Pere-Lachaise and
the Barriere du Trone, at the most deserted spot, some chil-
dren, while playing, discovered beneath a mass of shavings
and refuse bits of wood, a bag containing a bullet-mould, a
wooden punch for the preparation of cartridges, a wooden
bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, and a
little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces
of melted lead.
Police agents, making their way suddenly and unex-
pectedly at five o’clock in the morning, into the dwelling
of a certain Pardon, who was afterwards a member of the
Barricade-Merry section and got himself killed in the in-
surrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his bed,
and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in
the act of preparing.
Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men
were seen to meet between the Barriere Picpus and the Bar-
riere Charenton in a little lane between two walls, near a
wine-shop, in front of which there was a ‘Jeu de Siam.’[33]
One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to
the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the
perspiration of his chest had made the powder damp. He

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