ATROCIOUS CRIME IN PARIS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12197, 23 July 1925, Page 6

ATROCIOUS CRIME IN PARIS

GANG OF POLES ACCUSED MURDERS AND ROBBERIES. (Received July 22, 8.5 p.m.) PARIS, July 22. The police announce that 16 members of the most dangerous gang of criminals which ever has infested France are now under arrest. For a month there have been frequent arrests of Poles charged with minor offences. It appears that they formed a powerful organisation, and they are now charged individually or collectively with 14 murders and 107 burglaries. There was the case of a man whose body, in pieces, was found distributed in packages in tho Villette district of Paris. The head alone has not been discovered. One of the bandits accused a compatriot, a butcher named Folus, of the murder. Felus did not confess to this crime, hut he confessed that ho had murdered a Russian engineer named Dutfo.v, who was stabbed to death in a train between Paris and Versailles. There are also the cases of a little girl who was murdered and cut to pieces on a farm, of a woman stabbed to death when giving the alarm of a raid on Her farm, and of another woman who was shot in the presence of her three children during a burglary. Theso are only a few of the crimes, hitherto mysteries, with which tho Poles will be charged.