TAXIMAN MURDERED
ANOTHER' OUTRAGE IN PARIS. KILLED FOR 30/-. ANGRY COMRADES SURROUND POLICE STATION. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 14. 10p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 13. Taxi-driving i* becoming one of tile most perilous occupations in* Paris. Another taxi man was murdered auu robbed to-day. Two youths, twenty and seventeen respectively, hailed a taxi at the Gare du Nord. and asked to be driven to Greil. When outside the city, one opeued the window (and shot the driver in the temple, and he fell on the wheel dead. The car ran into a hedge, where the assassins robbed him of thirty shillings and made off. leaving the taxi and corpse on the roadside. The police traced the assailants within a few hours.
■When brought- to the police station, crowds of taxi-men made an attempt to secure the murderers, but tlie police protected them. 'There have been many almost identical attacks in the past few months.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11132, 15 February 1930, Page 5
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