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He turned toward anarchism, also to grave robbing,
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counterfeiting, and finally murder,
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strangling a strange old hermit
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who had a lot of money stashed away
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in his house in the hills, near Saint-Etienne.
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He was arrested, managed to escape the police wagon,
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and went to Paris living under an assumed name.
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In 1891 police fired on demonstrators
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on the Boulevard Clichy in Paris,
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on the edge of Paris.
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Three were hauled to the Police Station and they were beaten up,
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put on trial and two condemned to long prison sentences.