MOTOR OUTRAGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10593, 27 March 1912, Page 5

MOTOR OUTRAGE

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association— By Mta trie Telegraph—Copyright.)

MURDERERS AND ROBBERS SENSATIONAL CHASE AND ESCAPE. ((Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.) PAMS, March, 26. The sensational renewal of the motor outrages has been identified with the Place du Havre assassins, who were active some time ago. Soldiers are now posted at all the stations, armed with loaded revolvers, iii the hope of arresting the murderers, and recovering the money stolen.

In regard to the murderers,' they hid on the road to Mendes, and while tP-ie rector-, car was sheltering at Moritgemnwith two chiaffeurs aboard they killed one instantly, and the other .feigned doattti, while the assassins hoarded the car, and motored to. .Chanttniy, 40 miles away, nraking a detour to avoid Paris. ,0n reaching ChiantiMy, they met a woman who was watching the Blank. The four entered, while a fifth guarded the door with a loaded carbine, a 1 sixth remaining in the car. The cashier was killed instantly, but the clerk lingered for ten minutes, and the office boy was wounded. Two messengers escaped,, and raised the alarm, and the assassins' seized the monies, and escaped, travelling at sixty miles an hour towards. Paris, afterwards firing intermattemtlly at anyone attempting to follow or stopping to look, and several were hit. The telephones aroused the police, I and a wild chase followed. Two policemen on bicycle* overtook tile car, owing to one of the tyres collapsing. The. six robbers alighted and scaled t(tie railway line,, and as two trains were passing at low speed they boarded, and the police, not knowing this', took thirty-five minutes to, secure telephone connection with Parlis terminus, while the men- escan\..ed'. ' • ■ *•.:"■■■'■'•';;. '.'■?'"/: ■':.■■■. ; , There were a ritfmib/er of bullet holes in the dewrted: motor ear, .'three., ■ blood-stained: h!and&*ff:eb.iefs and-manv revolver an<£ carbine cartridges. ■ Late at nigh'i i ."r^^„,^ to ..J|ija^s ! i -plSiie^ tßree men, (one of whom shouted for. help, and flung out a pad of cotton wool saturated w'tjh chloroform. The car escaped. The banks in the vicinity. of Paris are providing their cashiers with re-

vol vers. , Tlie Ghvcrnmont is introducing a Bill to provide a Police Automobile Corps.

MURDER OF A CHAfFEUR.

BANK ROBBED

(Received March 26, 8 a.m.)

Six Apaches/ killed a chauffeur near Chautilly, amd seized the car. They then entered the 'Chantilly Bank, killed the cashier and a clerk, and drove off with forty thousand ■francs (£1666).