FRENCH LAWLESSNESS.
A DASTARDLY ATTACK. fij Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, June 9. Threo navvies attacked Madame Tremblay, keeper of tho cafe where tho notorious motor bandits committed one of their crimes, They almost strangled her, nnd then decamped. While getting away \ they repeatedly fired revolvers, wounding one of their pursuers. THE BANDITS' RECORD. Tho recent outrages by the French motor bandits may be tabulated as follows December 21, 1911.—The bank messenger Caby shot and robbed in t.ho Rue ' Ordener, Montmartre, the bandits escaping in a motor-car which they had stolon. February 27, 1912.—Th0 policeman Gar- ■ nier shot and killed in the Place .du Havre, Paris, when attempting to stop & grey motor-car containing the bandits. February 29,—Bandits broko into a lawyer's house at Pontoise, and whin discovered escaped after firing on their assailants.
Mai;eh 25—Tho bandits stopped _ a motor-car on - the Melun Road outside Paris; shot the chauffeur dead and wounded his companion; drove toi Chantilly, robbed n bank, /uid killed three of the cashiers, wounding a. fourth; and cscaped in the stolen ear, firing on all who tried to stop tliein. April 24.—M. Jouin, deputy head of the Crinrnal Investigation Department, and Detettive-Inspector Colmar, were searching the shop kept by an Anarchist called Gouzy at Petit Ivry, when they came un : expectedly upon Bonnot, the "phantom chauffeur," in an upper room. 11. Jouin .was shot' dead and Colmar dangetously wounded. Bonnot escaped by the w'indow a woman's room.
April 28.—Bonnot run to earth in a little garago on the outskirts of Choisy-lc-}!o\ somo six miles south-cast of Paris. After withstanding a sicgo by police and Republican Guards for nearly fivo hours, ho was found still alivo after the garage had been partly destroyed by dynamite, and was mortally wounded on his attempting a last resistance.' 1 Tho tenant 1 of the garage, a man named Dubois, who had given Bonnot shelter, was killed in ,the siege. The police casualties'werc one detective seriously wounded and another slightly injured. \
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 5
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326FRENCH LAWLESSNESS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 5
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