PARIS TAXI-DRIVERS
MURDERED FOR. MONEY
MANY CASES IN FEW MONTHS
PARIS, 13 tli February
Taxi-driving is becoming one of the most perilous occupations iv Paris. Another was murdered and robbed to-day.
Two youths, aged 27 and 17 years respectively, hailed a taxi at Garcdunord and asked to be driven to Creil. When outside the city one of the youths opened a window and shot the driver in the temple, and ho fell on the wheel dead. The car ran into a hedge where the assassins robbed him of thirty shillings and made off, leaving tho taxi and corpso on tho roadside.
The polico traced tlie assailants within a few hour's. When brought to tho polico station crowds of taxi^ men made an attempt to secure 'the murderers, but tho police protected them.
There have been m:.ny almost identical attacks within a few-months.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 9
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