ASSASSINS IN A MOTOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1399, 27 March 1912, Page 5

ASSASSINS IN A MOTOR.

MURDERS IN FRANCE.

WILD CHASE BY POLICE AFTER FLEEING CAR. CRIMINALS BOARD A TRAIN. By Telegraph-Press AssociatioD-CopyrtfrM Paris, March 25. Six Apaches killed a chauffeur near Chantilly, and seized the car. They then entered the Chantilly Bank, killed the cashier and a clerk, and drove off with forty thousand francs (about XViW). (Rec. March 26, 11.5 p.m.) Paris, March 26. A sensation has been caused by tho renewal of motor outrages. The perpetrators have been identified as the Place du Havre assassins, who killed a gendarme at the end of February. Soldiers are now posted at ■ all the railway stations with loaded revolvers in the hope of arresting tho murderers. A reward of .£IOOO is offered for their apprehension. The assassins hid in a road-mendef''s shelter' at Montgeron, eleven miles south of Paris, where they awaited a car -with two chauffeurs aboard. One they , killed instantly, and tho other whom they wounded feigned to be dead until they boarded the car. The assassins then motored to Chantilly, forty miles away, making a circuit to avoid Paris. On reaching Chantilly they met a woman who was watching the bank. Four of the men entered; a fifth guarded the door with a loaded carbine,' and the sixth remained in the car. The cashier of the bank - was killed immediately. The clerk lingered for ten minutes. The office boy was wounded, and a messenger escaped and raised the alarm. The assassins seized what money they could find, and escaped, leaving the town at a speed of sixty miles an. hour, and taking the road to Paris.' They fired intermittently at anyone attempting to follow them or stopping, to look at them. Several persons were hit. Telephone calls aroused the police of the district, and a wild chase followed. Two policemen on bicycles overtook the car owing too its tyres collapsing. The six robbers, however, alighted, and scaled up on to the railway line as two trains were passing at a low speed. They boarded one of these, the police not knowing which. It took thirty-five minutes to secure telephono connection with the Paris terminus, and the men escaped. There were a number of bullet holes in the deserted motor car, and three bloodstained handkerchiefs, and many revolver and carbine cartridges were found in it. Late at night police on bicycles pursued a car containing three men, one of whom had shouted for help. The occupants of the car flung out a pad of cotton wool saturated with chloroform. The car escaped. The banks in the vicinity of Paris are providing their cashiers with revolvers.' The Government is' introducing a Bill to provide a police automobile corps.