DEATH BEFORE CAPTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3772, 14 September 1907, Page 4

DEATH BEFORE CAPTURE.

Tragic end to a “Fort Chabrol” Drama.

A tragic “Fort Chabrol ” drama has occurred at Toulouse. On the evening of July 10th a wrestler named Tomuicr was sentenced at the local pflice court to eight months’ imprisonment for a desperate assault on a man named Darmes. Immediately after the sentence was pronounced Tournier drew a revolver and fired first at Darmes, who had given evidence against him, and then at the policeman who arrested him. Darmes was seriously injured, but the shot missed the policeman. In the confusion which followed Tournier escaped from the Court, and fled to his house, which he barricaded against the police. When they approached the house for the purpose of capturing him, he fired at them with his revolver, and several of the policemen narrowly escaped serious injury. It was decided to lay siege to the house, and all night long the building was carefully watched. Seveial times the police attempted to obtain an entrance, but each time they were forced to retreat from the shots from Tournier’s revolver. At 3.30 p.m. on July nth the police heard a shot inside the house, and a moment afterwards Tournier’s wife appeared at the window and screamed out that her husband was dead. The police inspector was sus ■ picious of a ruse, however, and would not allow his men to enter the house till the woman had brought out her husband’s revolver. Then the police entered the house, and they found the dead body of Tournier on the bed.