BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tn 1 ’ Times” Service.] A MURDER GANG. SIXTY ARRESTS IN PARIS. PARTS. July 22. The police announce Ihat sixty- members ol the most dangerous gang of criminals which ever infested Trance, are now under arrest. T<*r a month there have been frequent arrests of . Poles, charged with minor offences. If appears that they formed a powerful organisation. They are now charged, individually or eoilee-tively. with louileen murders, and one hundred and seven burglaries. 'There is the ease of a man. whose !ioi.lv, in pieces, was found distributed in packages in the \ illetfe? district in Paris. Tho head alone lias not lieeii discovered. One bandit .•ovused a compatriot, _ a butcher named Feins, of murder. Feins did not confess this crime, but confessed that he had murdered a Russian eu"iueer, named Dutloy. who was lounel stahls'd to death in a train between Paris and Versailles. _ ' There are also other eases. A little girl’ was murdered and e-ut to pieces. A farm woman was stabbed to eleatu when ■ riving the alarm of a raid on her farm. \ not her woman w its shot in the pt'C\,,l( |- i,nr ihive children during a hurdarv. These are only a few of the crimes, hitherto mysterious. wherewith Hie Poles will * * charged

MAN disappears. LONDON. July 22; Kcolland Yard has issued a description of Joseph victor Collins, an Ame-rie-att mathematics master, who ts six-iv-feiiti* vears of age. With Ills wife ami daughter lie has been for three weeks v visiting London. Collins left Ai-s d.M'oliter at a corner in Guilleird tst. in ~(|,.|- to King's Cross. He l lias not si seen. He had £O3O ill note's and credit cheques ,n his possession.