MOTOR BRIGANDS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 98, 16 October 1911, Page 7

MOTOR BRIGANDS

r.";]i.»|.-M- a,: '■*■ < "■ <<i:<Ait:K-,.ir.\nAf. <» * i ■!, CRUEL ACT. ; ! f!'A of motor bri'|gfiri^gjV r! 'lia.S i ' ; '.b'pcl(, ' 'cdmmitted near 1 l'aris'corresponxlerit of ; '-IJJvj Ltopoji liaUy'TW,egpp'h)'. Two men ' ( a and hired 'an 1 iuttjisomM°iii 'which they said they 'tet^t , 6'(U'lve't.o''ffiefe'uil. ' They *ere : t6' ) be. l b|'(i chauffeur, Who ''ia^to'iiii'lVe (M automobile : istfe¥cll' [ Me'' ii) ( ; tjfe ! '..evening,, and when it Rot'-'fio.'ii 'ce'ftaHA jflace i'n the couu'try, Hvhlei'e' t : litW I was ; ''!rio > i.,a house in sight, t'lie : t4-q-ir!A 'clia'ufl'eur to stop. Thhv 'ili'en attacked' hini, and tried to cut ''«}£ 'tlirotvi wltlh !U X r kz6r. ..A' despeiate l fe! ! 'fht4''c , nsui*'il.; "The. chauffeur, ]' Wiii^'ynr^ 1 WfMntlcd',' jumped back into hW'iefit'itnhl 'triSlto drive away. The two men also got."back into the autoinobil l e',^an(i l ''lfi/iied' : to stop it. As the chauffeur was" turning round his head one «P r |ftfim : ivga'ih's!asihed at his throat with a razor, ffrrrHbis time the chauffeur .Kvivs" soi!w«4iKb: , d"ili«t r nc dropped outi of his soait'-'iJiidvfcßiv'car stopped. ' i ■'•' lleudrnggedbWhiftelf' to a house which .was Svliile the two men trieddb wti'tlloloar go4ng again and to 'iteiSt' ;\Sr.iv witbi.it.: ■>'■ Tlin chauffeur just )'('i[{JiM:tteAQU*e.!\vhen he foil down exwas? attonded to, and the diliieiHup-, stripped; lie then, wrote on a slip of paper what had happened. One j of -the- hPOlmdn hadlilriven with difficulty lias iiar.Siis.:a aillage v and the gendarmes ()iadims<Jnl\Thilewbdcn informed. Curiously cft(>Rgh> iiiitbi'dlaitely afterwards a doctor, who had been summoned, arrived with the.Jn.Uucd cdiaiiffeur, and begged the •Diait tt), lei'. IjiiHi get into the automobile lo convey hini,"tH)iAmicnsi The man had : the .audacity. ,to refuse, saying that it .woul.desojl ; t)ie;(Ca.V. It was then that 1111(v-i«<Fti<jiay.^K^sii(j[oked. at the number of . the autpmobije; and recognised it as the , stolen,otifl,;,,,They at once arrested' the mau,<aiid-|Wbc;n: brought before the chauffeur h«;.iwoß. identified by him in writing, ■ •'„•■.,, >