1958, October – 1959, April 11: (The Jumelle Brothers Murdered, Clément’s Coffin Snatched, and the Vodou Burial at St.

1958, October – 1959, April 11: (The Jumelle Brothers Murdered, Clément’s Coffin Snatched, and the Vodou Burial at St. Marc): In the months following the July attentat, over a hundred more persons were arrested, radio transmitters were confiscated, and the death sentence was revived as a legal penalty. Captain Jean Beauvoir, a leading TTM within the army, ran down Ducasse and Charles Jumelle — both were shot to death while asleep in bed, after which their bodies were dragged outside and posed like gangsters for photographers with planted pistols in cold hands. Clément Jumelle had seven months to live: in early April 1959, after twenty-one months on the run and desperately ill with uremic poisoning, he dragged himself into the Cuban embassy, where with his wife at his side he fought for life under intense medical care. On April 11 he died. Next day, in a scene memorably evoked by Graham Greene in The Comedians, as the funeral cortège followed by hundreds of sympathizers turned up Avenue Charles Sumner toward the Sacré Coeur Church, spectators at the Rond Point were horrified when a police car, siren screaming, screeched ahead of the hearse and halted it. Police and TTMs with submachine guns held the crowd at bay while a detail led by Captain Beauvoir, knocking down wreaths and mourners alike with kokomakak, snatched the coffin from its bier and heaved it with a thud into the bed of a truck. Sirens wailing, the ghastly convoy roared north without stopping to St. Marc, where at the cemetery beside Portail Montrouis, spurning the offices of a priest — Jumelle had been a devout Catholic — tonton macoutes buried Clément Jumelle with Vodou rites in a shallow grave.