EXECUTED IN PARIS.

Shannon News, 9 December 1924, Page 3

EXECUTED IN PARIS.

FOUR BANK ROBBERIES HANGED TELEPHONE CLUE TO MURDER. MONTREAL, October 24. Louis Morel, a former city detective, who turned bank robber, led a procession of four to the scaffold before daylight this morning, thus expiating a crime which resulted in the death of a bank messenger and a bandit. They'were executed in pairs, and the operation was completed within 10 minutes. Police patrols guarded the streets within half a mile of the gaol. The capture of this gang was a smart piece of police work. In the dead bandit’s pocket was a slip of paper, containing a telephone number, and within an hour of the robbery the house corresponding to this numebr was raide. It yielded £6OOO in cash, and the names of the probable murderers, who were captured the same evening, as they tried to leave the city by train,