PARISIAN THIEVES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2692, 12 October 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

PARISIAN THIEVES.

Opiate the cottages which fringe the Seine from Passy to Suresnes have been selected specially for their nefarious operations by a band of men who seem prepared to run any risk, so long as they procure a fair share of booty. Recently, for example, about 10 o'clock in the evening, the proprietor of a small villa between Sevres and Saint-Cloud was entertaining a few friends, when, hearing the sound of voices iu the garden, he provided himself with his revolver and sallied farto to ascertain the cause of the conversation. He soon met a party of four young men in boating costume, who politely apologised for their intrusion, explaiuing that they had mistaken the house for one occupied by a friend of theirs. The proprietor replied in the same tone, and was conversing quietly with them, when suddenly one of the band threw himself on him, and tried to fling him to the ground. He fired off his revolver, and all four at once decamped, followed by their intended victim, who saw them enter a boat and pull off . No Jesa audacious was the burglary committed two nightH ago at a Sevres restaurant, situated, like most of the river inns, on the Quay. The cellars were the special object of the attentions of the thioves, who took away all the bottles which they could conveniently remove. A short time ago at Bas-Meudou a resident was attacked by two welldressed men at nine o'clock in the evening, and robbed of his purse and watch. The gendarmes, however, are now on the qui vive, and search is being made for this dangerous band of thieves.