BOY BANDIT.
Pursued by gendarmes who fired at him while he tried to escape on a bicycle he had stolen, a 'H-year-old workhouse boy named Meunier finalfy surrendered m. a wood near RisOrangfa, 16 miles from Paris, when he had been wounded m the head, arm, and both legs after a revolver battle. He reached the " wood well ahead of the police and ambushed them on their arrival, when he fired two shots from his revolver. An hour later Meunier was found up a tree and stalked by the police, to whose fire he aeplied. The lad, who is m a critical condition, is thought to be the leader of a gang of boy highwaymen who had escaped from a workhouse school and committed a series of burglaries and "gamottin-rs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9540, 20 June 1921, Page 7
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