ALMOST LYNCHED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 14 May 1907, Page 3

ALMOST LYNCHED.

PARIS MIDNIGHT AFFRAY

A double murder was committed in the Montmartre district late one Sunday night recently under sordid circumstances, recalling the iiois traditions-of the quarter, the criminal being a carpenter named Lmile Jolibois, 28 years of age. Jolibois it appears entered a hotel in the passage de UElysec dost Beaux Arts in tlie company of a woman, and towards midnight the proprietor of tlie establishment, a man named. Odoul, heard the woman screaming. He called a waiter .named Becoul, and together they rah to the room occupied by the pair. I hoy found Jolibois in a state bordering on frenzy, clutching hip companion by the throat and making violent eflorts to strangle her, but temporarily overpowering him they succeeded m getting thc-womait away. - Thereupon the infuriated man drew a revolver and fired-twice. J lie first bullet wounded tlie liotbl-keeper, and the second killed the waiter. ' Jolibois dashed out of the house on to "the boulevard, but the uproar had attracted the attention of persons passing and a detective promptly gave' dulse. The fugitive again used his revolver, and the police oihcor, whose name was Mourner, dropped dead. ■ ■ , ~ Sub-Lieutenant Cupillut, of the Colonial Reserve, also endeavored to stop tlie murderer, who fired a fourth time, tho bullet wounding the lieutenant 'in the left side so soverely that it is feared ho will' not recover. By this time tlie line anil cry had become general, and Jolibois sought refuge in. a dairy. An angry, mob collected, anfl made repeated attempts, to drag him out and lynch him, (pit the polico frustrated their design, and conveyed him to the depot, the bodies of his victims, Monnier and Becoul, being removed __to the morgue.