BANDITRY IN CANADA
MURDER, OF POLICEMAN. SUICIDE OF CAPTURED MAN MONTREAL., Sept. 11. The murder of a policeman, a running gun-fight with, bandits and the penitent suicide of one of them after capture, were dramatic incidents associated with the recovery of stolen paintings to-day. The pictures l were valued at £IO,OOO and were (Stolen several months ago from the Montreal Art Gallery. Tile editor of a Montreal newspaper received half of one canvas, with a. demand for £6OOO ransom; otherwise the pictures would be cut into a jig-saw. No communication was made with the robbers. The solution came in unexpected' fashion when a Canadian-Pacific Railway constable, Mackie, and an associate attempted to arrest two men for robbing a freight car in the railway yards. One robber turned and fired point-blank at Mackie, who .subsequently died. The pair, were captured after a chase 'and the firing of many shots. Paul Thousin was charged with murder. When told that Mackie had died, he wept and took the officers to his cache, 50 miles away, where the paintings were all hidden. He was returned to his cell, where later he was found dead from poison, which he had hidden in the heel of his shoe.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 September 1933, Page 2
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202BANDITRY IN CANADA Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 September 1933, Page 2
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