“TERROR” QUITS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1932, Page 8

“TERROR” QUITS

SURPRISE FOR

PARIS, February 19.

A local “terror” has just had his reputation shattered in the woods near Chateauroux. Victor Chapuron, a fellei* of trees, and filled his neighbours with dread through his violent boasting, and had been regarded as a frightfully dangerous person to anger.

Yesterday afternoon two gendarmes approached his hut to question him upon a certain matter. He at once opened firo on them with a shot gun. Reinforcements were summoned and the hut surrounded, while the woodman continued to fire from a window. When they had completed plans for a long siege the gendarmes all fired in the air together as a preliminary to settling down.

To their astonishment Chapuron immediately threw away his gun and shouted: “Don’t hurt me! I surrender.” A few seconds later he walked out of the hut, his hands above his head, and when the gendarmes leapt on him, suspecting a trick, they found that he was trembling in every limb. Ho was in such a state of nervous prostration, in fact, that he had to be allowed to rest for some time before he had sufficient strength to walk away a captive.