1920 to 1922 · Haitianspan
Vincent's prison arithmetic gives one jail 28,470 deaths in a year
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Dantes Bellegarde wrote that his countrymen lived in an atmosphere of lying, and the propaganda of the Union Patriotique bore him out. Russell was accused of embezzlement. When Colonel Hooker sailed home in 1921 Le Courrier Haitien announced the fortune he had made. Jolibois fils marked the end of Wilson's presidency with a prayer that the man never find a resting place and eat his own waste on his deathbed. In August 1921 Stenio Vincent told a United States Senate committee that four thousand prisoners had died at the Cap between 1918 and 1920, and that seventy-eight bodies a day went into the pits there through 1918, which in a prison holding about four hundred people would mean 28,470 deaths in twelve months. He added 5,475 dead at Chabert. An anonymous member of the Union said Caperton had sold the entire Haitian navy for fourteen thousand dollars. A French colleague of Bellegarde informed his readers that Haitian villages had been eaten by war dogs shipped in from the Philippines.
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