FRENCH HOUNSDITCH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, 30 April 1912, Page 5

FRENCH HOUNSDITCH.

) SPECTATORS OF THE SIEGE NUMBER 150,000. AN ANARCHIST MILLIONAIRE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) p r ' Paris, April 29. 3 When the bandits wore surrounded in a motor garage at eight in the ■ morning they opened a sharp fasilade. 1 and kept the police at bay in the early stages of the siege. Two of the police were seriously wounded. Hundred: of shots were exchanged. A straw-laden cart, with mattresses attached, was utilised as a shelter, and was backed towards the house with strong armed forces behind it Meanwhile the police were sheltered among the trees and in other cover, and kept up a dropping fire on the I bandits. Lieutenant Fontan, a Republican Guard, under tho protection of the cart, placed several bombs, which nnssed fire at the first attempt. A second attempt was successful, and the back wall fell. After the explosion shots were hoard in the house. Fontan dashed to tho first floor, and the police followed. Dubois was found dead, and Bonnot bad a. dozen wounds, two of which were mortal. He tried to swallow poison when the police seized him. The house was burnt down. Bonnot died in the hospital. Dubois was a notorious Russian anarchist. The mob trampled on his body. One hundred and fifty thousand spectators watched the soige for four hours. Bonnot left a document declaring that five of those arrested were innocent, Niclr.dmg Gouzy. Dubois’s garage belonged to Fro* montin, an anarchist millionaire and a close friend of Ferrer, who was executed in Barcelona. Fromentin devoted the bulk of his fortune to the propagation of anarchist doctrines. BONNOT’S DEATH. - FEVERISH EXCITEMENT. (Received 30, 9.50 a.m.) Paris, April 29. There has been feverish excitement in connection with the capture of Bonnot. Nearly a million special newspapers wore sold. Special trains carried enormous crowds.. Fifteen thousand people witnessed the bombardment for four hours.