DRAMATIC FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 13

DRAMATIC FIGHT

BANDIT IN PARIS SHOP SHOTS FLY ACROSS STREET (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) | (Australian and X.Z. Press Association.) I PARIS, Friday. A crowd of shoppers in the Faubourg du Temple found themselves involved in a cinema-like drama. At noon a bandit strolled into tlie shop of Andre Monnet, a jeweller, and shot the proprietor dead. He grabbed a tray of diamonds, but found his retreat cut off. whereupon he fired at random, injuring a man and a woman. The bandit then turned and bolted upstairs. In the meantime, Madame Monnet, in her room above, hearing the shots and seeting the bandit coming, screamed. She leapt from the window, but her fall was broken upon an awning, and she tumbled unhurt upon the crowd. The desperado was now in the same room, and appeared at the window with pistols in both hands. He fired madly into the street and into a wineshop opposite, doing deadly work among the bottles. Several hundred police surrounded the house and summoned a special gas brigade, as well as steel shieldsman. A hole was made in the wall and asphyxiating gas pumped in. Then, when there were no more shots, the police forced an entry. The bandit was dead with a bullet in his head, a policeman having picked him off from a windo-w across the street.