EXECUTED IN PARIS.
BANK BOBBERS PAY PENALTY.
Montreal, Oct. 24. Louis Morel, a former city detective, who turned bank robber, led a procession of four to tho scaffold before daylight, thus expiating a crime which resulted in tho death of a bank messenger, and a bandit. They were executed in, pairs, and tho operation was completed within ton minutes. Police patrols guarded tho streets within half a mile of the gaol. Tho capture of this gang was a fine piece of police work. In the dead bandit's pocket was slip of paper, containing a telephone number, and within an hour of tho robbery the house corresponding to this number was raided. It yielded £6OOO in cash, and tho names of tho probable murderers, who wero captured the same evening, as they tried to leave tho city by train.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 282, 8 November 1924, Page 7
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