Cottin. Pierre-Paul is taken and cut down there.

General Pierre-Paul, the chief of execution, was taken on the Cotin plantation; a soldier cut him down with a stroke of the saber; his head, severed, was brought to Léogane and fixed on the end of a pike on the savanna. Bédouet, wounded, had been carried into a loft; he blew out his brains. Bélus Ledoux, who had hidden in a hogshead, was taken; he received a ball in the shoulder and several bayonet thrusts. The youngest of Bédouet’s sons, aged 16, was taken prisoner; before he had been disarmed he fired his pistol at Terlonge, who nonetheless spared his life. At the same time general Lazarre, who had learned at Gressier of the fight at Léogane, reached that town the same day, 20 September, in the morning, while Bédouet the son, Cajuste Louis, Elie Lhérisson, Dudrai Ducoudray, Thelor, Blanchard, Numa Villefranche, Julien Petit-Breuil, Désir and Aimé Potel were being arrested. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon general Lazarre had all these prisoners shot at the gate of Léogane, together with Bélus Ledoux and Montès, in the presence of the troops. The corpses, before being buried, were stripped by officers of junior and senior rank. Soldiers were seen filling their pockets with watches and money in the presence of the crowd. Juste and Camille Plaideau were arrested in the woods at a great distance from Léogane; they were sent on toward Port-au-Prince almost naked, their arms bound, led by soldiers who dragged them by cords tied to their testicles. When they reached the Pont de Thor they were put to death with saber strokes. The patrols sent out by Terlonge ranged over the whole arrondissement of Léogane and massacred most of the fugitives wherever they met them; it was a general extermination, at which President Pierrot himself would be horrified when he learned the news. (*)