THE MOTOR BANDITS
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SENSATIONAL TRIAL COMMENCES. LNTENSR INTEREST IN PROCEEDINGS. (Received List Night, 11.5 o'clock.) PARIS, February I. The trial of twenty motor bandits, charged with thirty-three murders and crimes, has begun. A queue was formed, and people waited all night to gain admission to the Courthouse, Front seats sold at £6 each. The prisoners were handcuffed and fastened to Republican guards sitting on either side. The prisoners wore an air of. respectability. A feature of the court-room was a great ghuss case containing the revolvers and carbines of the gang, and also a bullet-rid-dled mattress which Bonnot used in his last fight with the police. Tlio trial commenced with the interrogation of three women, including Ma chime. Maitrojean, (he directoress of the newspaper Anarchic.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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