CINEMA-LIKE DRAMA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 7

CINEMA-LIKE DRAMA.

Russian Bandit In Paris Causes Sensation. GAS PUMPED INTO HOUSE. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) PARIS, August 12. A crowd of shoppers on the Faubourg du Temple found themselves involved m a cinema-like drama at noon on Friday. A bandit strolled into the shop of Andie Monnet, a jeweller, shot the proprietor dead, and seized a tray of diamonds. The thief found his retreat cut off. however. Thereupon he fired at random, injuring a man and a woman. He then turned and ran upstairs. In the meantime, Madame Monnet. who was in the room above the shop, hearing the shots and seeing the bandit coining, screamed and leaped from the window. Her fall was broken upon an awning and she tumbled unhurt upon the crowd in the street. The bandit was now in the room frc.ii which the woman had escaped. He appeared at the window with pistols in both hands. He fired madly into the street and into a wineshop opposite, doing deadly work among the bottles Several hundred poliocincn surrounded the shop and summoned a «pecjal gas brigade as well as steel shieldsmen. A hole was made in the wall and asphyxiating gas was pumped in. Then, when there were no more shots, the police forced an entry. The bandit was found dead with a bullet in his head. A policeman hat. picked him off from a window across the street.

The criminal was Kdouard Psyck. He was born in Leningrad, and had lived five years in Fiance. Recently lie married a Frenchwoman. Yvonne, who is missing. Psyck was out of work.

His shots wounded three spectators two of whom. Madame Begaud and, M. Batiloup, are in a critical condition.