AN 6. (UPPER RHINE). ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. " Extract from the - Lot 363

AN 6. (UPPER RHINE). ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. " Extract from the register of the Public Sessions of the Central Administration of the Department of HAUT-RHIN, séante in COLMAR (68) of Prairial Year 6 (May 25, 1798). Military and Police Office N°12652 concerning prisoner escapes entrusted to the Gendarmerie during transfers from one prison to another. "Leaders of gangs of assassins covered with all the crimes, & already condemned to the death penalty, enter society to commit greater crimes, & by which he instructs the administration to request the National Guard, in concert with the Gendarmerie Brigade, to guard the prisoners who, during their passage, are deposited in a prison, to stay there until the Gendarmerie Brigade is relieved by the one in charge of making the prisoners continue their journey". Printed in COLMAR, by the Printing Office of the Department of HAUT-RHIN. Bilingual Closet (42 x 36) State A.