The Daily State Journal

The leading members of the Paris Commune do not appear to have been above using their late opportunities for getting money. The snug sum of a million and a half of francs is said to have been found upon the person of one Communal officer while upon the corpse of a Minister money to the amount of 409,000 francs was discovered. Doubtless many of the leaders hoped, after filling their purses, to go into comfortable exile somewhere beyond the reach of the government arm, but they have found that arm more potent and pitiless than they imagined, and instead of escaping to live at ease, they die ignominiously, leaving their plunder to testify against them.