POT SHOTS FROM A TAXI

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 8

POT SHOTS FROM A TAXI

What is tlie world coming to, asks tho Paris correspondent of tho “Daily Telegraph,!’ when tliroe steady young men cannot take the air alter a warm clay, seated on a bench in a good quarter of the city, without meeting with, a misadventure, which has led to two of them being seriously injured? 'Three men had been taking a little stroll together after their work, and were chatting quietly while resting on a bench, when a taxicab sped round tho corner, with five men in it. As it drew near the little party it slackened speed, and then its occupants, pulling out revolvers, fired as many as ten shots in tho direction of the three friends, who fell from the bench without ; having the faintest idea as to tho identity of their brutal assailants. Although, however, tho taxi disappeared as swiftly as it had approached, one of them was able to note the number. The wounded men were conveyed to the Beaujon Hospital, where their injuries were examined. The left arm of one had been pierced by a bullet. A bullet had lodged in the thigh of another. ! As for the third, he was only suffering from a bruise in the leg, ’caused by tho ricochet of one of tho projectiles. Police officials who questioned tho wounded men could not obtain tho faintest clue from them, except .the number of tho cab. Working on this, they proceeded to the garage, only to learn from tho chauffeur that his faros had slipped out of the vehicle a little way further off, without paying for tho drive.