EXTRAORDINARY SCENES

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 118, 16 May 1912, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES

HUGE CROWD-WITNESS THE SIEGE.'

(Received May 16, 9;40 a.m./ PARIS, May 15. There were extraordinary scenes at Nogent-sui-Marne. The town was lit up with torches. Huge crowds -arrived in inotorS-, trains, and trams] shouting ' 'Death." : Some.,, who -iyero armed, .were with difficulty' restrained from indiscriminate shooting. The crowd attempted to lynch the bandits, supposing them to be.alive. M. Lepine was accorded an ovation. '•

Garnier's body was riddled. The tfomau Vuillemeii stated that Gamier threatened;to kill her. She added that the bandits did not take precautions, but mixed freely with .the neighbors. They .made several visits to Paris '"to purchase weapons, :and ;prepared fora week's defencel They had1 2000 cartridges.