MURDERED BY HOOLIGANS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 5

MURDERED BY HOOLIGANS.

POLICE KILLED IN PARIS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, March 22. "Apaches" murdered a policeman at midnight on a crowded boulevard. Knives and revolvers were used. Tho "Apaches," or hooligans, of Paris are of an unusually desperate type. Last year one of their number, a cobbler named Liabeuf, killed a police officer, and was publicly guillotined in July. With his arms covered with spiked armlets, Liabeuf had sallied forth with a knife and a 'revolver to wreck vengeauco on the police, and killed an officer named Deray and wounded six others. Ho had previously been convicted on the evidence of a policeman named Maugras, and sworo revenge. Ho took a., situation with a shoemaker and manufactured leather armlets, pierced by long cobblers' nails, and with savings from his earnings purchased the knife and revolver. Every policeman in Paris carries a loaded revolver and a sabre, unless it bo the men who are engaged in regulating the traffic, who, when their duty is confined to this task, are only equipped with a white baton, which they hold un in order to stop vehicles approaching them. Tho Paris police, moreover, employ a considerable number of dogs to protect and assist them in the rougher districts. Some 40 dogs are thus employed in Paris itself, and 156 in tho suburbs, where tho individual policeman is more isolated from his comrades, and where the chances of a criminal's escape are greater than in the populous parts of the city.