THIEVES IN SEWERS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1932, Page 3

THIEVES IN SEWERS

CHASED BY PARIS POLICE

SEARCH OF CATACOMBS

(PARTS, August 31/

Victor Hugo’s story of the thieves who used fh-e Paris sewers to escape justie/e cariiri into reality when, a ga-g of youths, numbering between seven and:'ii. escaped ’ from /the police, lollbwiifg a raid ori ; a wareliotise on the- banks of the Seine.

1 Tfih yotltßs'diK even respoEsib’.c ,'fpr a large; •-riumber of robbeiies in Paris arid dubrirbs, and 'When 'the 'police -entiored, tlie ’ gain-g made their escape through a celJar„into„-thp uridergrqunci sewer nearby'. l ',- !/■* : believed to' Hbc farttoril-briiafbnibSj which run like s maze- uude-r the -strerts of the cite. * Eor hours the police and firemen searched the underground passages, but no- trace of the young fobbefe way found, ( and - it f-eei-ed that I *, they may have dost, themselves];- which p these, catacombs mear s almost cert:”’death. ' • -' '

The ca tflcom 1 - s. -which -were form eiTquarries usei ;by the- Roinaus, extim’ -mde--:( the ‘left brink of t)ie riv’f: Many persons;, have (lost * their lives ir them, arid they are"riot opsri'ed te the public, except! on certain occasions. They are Rued with the’ bones and skriFls of nearly six million persons, interred in the 18th. c-eritniy, ' "when the -bodies-were • removed 'from '(Cemeteries . closed.'at that ;