These eighty men, once arrested and locked up in the Trouillas Tower, became most embarrassing.

Who was to judge them?
There were no legally constituted courts except those of the Pope.

Could they kill these unfortunates as they had killed Lescuyer?
We have said that a third, perhaps half of them, had not only taken no part in the murder, but had not even set foot in the church.

How should they kill them?
The killing must be placed upon the basis of reprisals.
But the killing of these eighty people required a certain number of executioners.
A species of tribunal was improvised by Jourdan and held session in one of the law-courts.

It had a clerk named Raphel; a president, half Italian, half French; an orator in the popular dialect named Barbe Savournin de la Roua, and three or four other poor devils, a baker, a pork butcher--their names are lost in the multitude of events.
These were the men who cried: "We must kill all! If one only escapes he will be a witness against us." But, as we have said, executioners were wanting.