GREAT TRIAL
PARIS MOTOR BANDITS INTENSE ITUBLIC INTEREST. (Press Association.- -Copyright.) PARIS, Feb. 4. A queue waited all night for the opening of the trial of the Bonnot gang. Front seats in the court sold for 120s each. The prisoners were handcuffed and fastened to Republican Guards sitting on either side of each prisoner. Their air of respectability was noteworthy. There stood a great glass case in the Court containing revolvers and carbines, and Bonnot '.s bullet-riddled mattress. The interrogation of three women has commenced, including Madame Maitrejean. who is accused of being the directress of the newspaper "Anarchic." i . (After an examination which has lasted'nine months, AI. Gilbert. Judge destruction, in September last committed for trial 22 of the prisoners brought before him charged with taking part jn-r-or beincj privy to. the criminal acts of the gang" of motor bandits who terrorised Paris earlier in the year. The gang was practically active from the end of February onwards. The murder of the po-' lice agent Gamier on February 27 was quicklv followed bv an attempted robbery at the house of M. Tintant, a law vet of Pontoise. and on Alarch 25 took plac? the attack on the bank at Chantilly. when two employees were killed after the seizure of a- motor-car and the murder of the driver near Alontgeron. Other crimes followed. Then took place the siege at'Choisy-le-Roi on April 28; when Bonnot and Dubois, two of the principals, were killed. On Alay 14 two other members of the gang. Gamier and Valkt, were run to earljh at Nogent-sur-Marne, and after a memorable night siege were both killed. The list of crimes with which the prisoners are charged (says "The Times") is a formidable one. " There are no fewer than 26 separate counts, including eight murders or attempts to murder, and 18 thefts. Seven persons, not including four bandits, have already lost their lives, while at least 12 have been more or less seriously wounded.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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