PARIS APACHES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 7

PARIS APACHES.

MOTOR OUTRAGES RESUMED FURTHER PARTICULARS. SENSATION CAUSED. By" Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. PARIS, 26th March. A sensation has been caused by a sudden renewal of the, motor outrages, the actors in which have been identified with the assassins concerned in the recent outrage in the Place dv Havre. Soldiers are now posted at all railway stations with loaded revolvers in the hope of arresting the murderers, for whose apprehension a reward of £4000 is offered. The murderers hid in a road-mender's shelter at Montgeron, and waited for a motor-car on which ( were two chauffeurs. One was killed instantly, and the other, who was wounded, feigned to be dead until the assassins boarded the car. They then motored to Chantilly, forty miles away, making a circuit to avoid Pari6. On. reaching Chantilly they met a woman who had been watching the bank. Four of the party entered the bank, a fifth guarding the door with a loaded carbine, and the sixth remaining in the car. The bank cashier was killed immediately. A clerk was jlso attacked, and lingered for ten minutes before he died, while tho office boy was wounded. A messenger escaped and raised the alarm, upon which the assassins seized about 40,000 franca (£1666), and escaped Paris-wards at sixty miles an hour, firing intermittently at anyone attempting to follow them or even stopping to look. Several peoplcwere hit. Telephone messages aroused the police of the district, and a wild chase followed. Two policemen on bicycles overtook the car owing to its tyres collapsing. The six robbers alighted and scaled the railway line as two trains were passing at low speed. They boarded a train, and the police not knowing which one they were on, took thirty-five minutes to secure a telephone connection with the Paris terminus. The men thus escaped. There were a number of bullet-holes in the deserted motor-car, and many revolver and carbine cartridges. Late at night the police, on bicycles, pursued a car containing three people, one of whom shouted for help, ana flung out a. pad of cotton wool saturated with chloroform. The car escaped. The banks in the vicinity of Paris are providing, their cashiers with revolvers, and the Government is introducing a Bill to provide a police automobile corps. [At the beginning of the. present month, in the Place dv Havre, at Pontoise, 18 miles north-west of Paris, motorists broke into a lawyer's house. The owner of the house fired on the men, who replied with revolvers, wounding the lawyer. The car was afterwards discovered afire afc St» Oven, 13 miles north-west of Amiens. Later, the police made two arrests and recovered two thousand pounds' worth of securities, which woro found deposited y in a, cloakroom at the Gare dv Nord.]