DARING PARIS OUTRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1354, 3 February 1912, Page 9

DARING PARIS OUTRAGE.

BANK COLLECTOR SHOT AND ROBBED. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" savs, under (Into of December 21:—'Tho thrilling robbery of a bank collector took place in a street in Montinartrc to-day, where a clcrk was shot at three times and a hag with securities amounting to bojiig .£IO,OOO stolen fronv him Ij.v two men who jumped into an automobile and drove away. Tho bank collector had been sent from the headquarters ill the Rue do Provence to a branch in. another Btreot. Ho had frvo bags, ono with socurities and another with X6OO in cash. As ho got out of tho tram another bank clerk, as a precaution, waited for him, and walked with him towards the branch office, 'l'hey waits only a few yards away when a man, drcwed in a cap and raincoat, suddenly walked up and thvd three shots point blomk at tho bank collector, who fell down. His oompanion was paralysed by tho sudden attack. Their aggressor then rapidly snatched tho bag containing the socunbos and attempted >ilso to snatch tho bag with tho oasli, but the wounded man clung desporafce.lv to tho latter. Tho robber jumped into a. motor-car standing by, and a man insido held up a revolver threatening to shoot anyone who approached tho motor-car. They then drove away rapidly, turning in ami out of the small Bide streets. A hue and cry was started after tho pair, and they fired a few shots bofore the cab reached the Hue Vauvenargues. The wounded bank collector, who had saved his ,£BOO in cash, was token to the hospital. The surgeon found his condition so grave that ho refused to permit him to Ik* examined by tho police. His aggressor was a young man of twenty-tivo, and only a vague description can be given of his two confederates, the driver of I'll# motor-car and (ho man inside.