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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1928, Page 5

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PARIS GUN-MAN’S OUTBREAK

BESIEGED BY POLICE

/Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Ptess Assn.—Copyright.)

PARIS, August 10.

A crowd of shoppers at the Faubourg Du Temple found themselves involved in a cinema-like drama at noon. A bandit strolled into the shop of M. Adre Monnet, a jeweller. He shot the proprietor dead, and tlien grabbed a tray of diamonds, but he found his retreat was cut off. Thereupon he fired at random, injuring a man and a woman. The bandit then turned and bolted upstairs. In the meantime, Madame Monnet, in a room above, hearing the shots, and seeing the bandit coming, screamed, and then she leapt from a window, but her fall was broken upon an awning, and she tumbled unhurt upon the crowd below.

The bandit was now in the same room as she had been, and he appeared at the window with pistols in both hands. He fired madly into the street and into a wine shop opposite, doing deadly work among the wine bottles. Several hundred police then surrounded the house. They summoned a special 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. They found that the bandit was dead, with a bullet in his head, a policeman having pickert him off from a window across the street.

A RUSSIAN MIGRANT. (Reed. August 13, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, August 11. The bandit was Edouard Pych, born at Petrograd. He had lived five years in France, and was recently married to a French woman, Yyonne, who is missing. Phyck was out of work. His shots wounded three spectators, two of whom, Madame Begand and Monsieur Vauloup, are in a serious condition.