MOTOR CAR OUTRAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 230, 27 March 1912, Page 5

MOTOR CAR OUTRAGES

APACHES AT WORK IN PARIS. ROB A BANK AND MURDER OFFICIALS. EXCITING POLICE CHASE. AUTOMOBILE CORPS TO BE FORMED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 20, 11.40 p.m. Paris, March 26. The sensational renewal of the motor outrages has been identified as the Place Du Havre assassins and soldiers are now posted at all stations with loaded revolvers iti the hope of arresting them, and a reward ol four thousand sterling is offered. The murderers hid in a road-mender's shelter at Montgeron awaiting the car. Of the two chaffenrs aboard one was killed instantly, and the other, who was wounded, feigned to be dead until the assassins boarded the car and motored tc Chantilly, fort' n:i es a ray, making a circuit to avoid Paris. Reaching Chantilly, they met a woman who was watching the bank. Four of them entered, the fifth guarding the door with a loaded carbine, and the sixth remaining in the car. The cashier was killed immediately, whilst the clerk died after lingering ten minutes, and the office boy was wounded. Two messengers, however, escaped, and raised the alarm. The assassins seized the monies and escaped, travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour in the direction of Paris, And firing intermittently at any who attempted to follow or even stopped to look, several being hit. Telephones a»oused' the police of the district, and a tkM chase followed. Two policemen on bicycles overtook the ear owing to the tyres collapsing. The six robbers alighted and scaled the railway line just as two trains were passing at a low speed and boarded one. the police not knowing which.

It took thirty-five minutes to secure telephone connection with Paris, and at the terminus the men escaped.

There were a number of bullet holes in the deserted motor-car, and three blood-stained handkerchiefs, also many revolver and carbine cartridges. Late at night the police on bicycles pursued a car containing three men, one of whom shouted for help, and flung out a pad of cotton wool saturated with chloroform, but the car escaped.

Banks in the vicinity of Paris are providing the cashiers with revolvers, and the Government is introducing a Bill to provide a police automobile corps.