MOTOR CAR OUTRAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 77, 27 March 1912, Page 5

MOTOR CAR OUTRAGES.

FULL DETAILS OF THE CHANui* ■; ■, TILLY AFFAIR. EXCITING POLICE CHASE. (By jF-iectric Telegraph.—Copyright.) j (United Press Association.) Paris, March 20.The, sensational renewal of the motor outrage has been identified as toe Placer,‘du Havre assassins, and soldier^!‘are now posted at all stations with' loaded revolvers in the hope of arresting them, and a reward of four thousand, sterling is offered. The murderers hid in a road-mend-er’s shelter at Montgeron, awaiting tliG car. Of tlio two chauffeurs aboard one was killed instantly, and the other, who was wounded, reigned to bo”dead until the assassins boarded t!i’6‘ car and motored to Cnantilly, forty Indies away, making a circuit to avoids Paris. Rebelling Chantilly, they met a woman who was watching the bank. Four of them entered, the fifth guarding tlie door with a loaded carbine, anti the-sixth remaining in the car. Theccashier was killed immeaiately, whilst tlie clerk died after lingering ten minutes, and the office boy was. wounded. -i Tv.ro 1 messengers, however, escaped, and raised the alarm. The assassins se’zecl; the monies and escaped, travelling at the rate of sixty miles an hourilan the direction of Pans, and firing intermittently at any who attemDtcjd to follow or even stopped to look,,’several being hit. Telephones aroused the police oi the district; and a wild chase followed iTwo policemen on bicycles overtook The car, owing to the tyres colLl robbers alighted and scaled the railway line just as two trains were...passing at a low speed, :ind one, the police not knowing ''ithfiok thirty-five minutes to secure 5 , tolephono connection with 1 ans, and at the terminus the men escaped. There were a number of bullet holes in the ’ deserted motor-car, and there blood-stained handkerchiefs, also maiiv’Tevolver and carbine cartridges. Late at night the police ,on bicycles,,’pursued a car containing three men I( ofie of whom shouted for help, and fifing out, a pad of cotton wool saturated with chloroform, but the the vicinity of Paris are providing tli"' cashiers with revolveis, and the'Government is introducing a Bill W provide a police automobile corps;""'