The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-21
DETECTIVE SHOT
DEAD IN PARIS

PARIS, April 24.-The detectives on
the track of the motor-car bandits who
perpetrated the crimes of the Rue
Ordener, the Rue du Havre, Mont
geron, and Chantilly nearly succeeded
in arresting unawares the leader and
most desperate member of the whole
band, Bonnet, this morning. Unfor-
tunately they were not expecting to
encounter this desperado, and he man
aged to escape after shooting the AS
sistant Chief of the Detective Service,
M. Jouin, dead and seriously wounding
another detective named Colmard.
It has been abundantly proved that
the desperate band of motor-car ban
dts Is in close touch with the Anarch-
list organization in Paris, and uses it
both for disposing of the proceeds of
robberies and for securing means of
escape and places of hiding. The police
have, therefore, of late been following
up Anarchist tracks with special keen
ness. This morning the Assistant
Chief of the Detective Force, NJ. Jouin,
with another detective, Colmard, Chief
Inspector Robert, and two other police
officers, proceeded to the southern
suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine in order to
search the slop-shop of man named
Gouzy, who was suspected to have re-
ceived and concealed the proceeds of
a robbery committed by the bandit
Carouy. They did not for one mo-
ment suspect that the most desperate
of the motor-car robbers, Bonnet, was
in hiding on GouZy's premises, which
are situated at No SO, Rue d'Ivry.
When the detectives entered the
shop this morning Gouzy quietly said
to them -"Yop will find nothing here.
You can go upstairs and search if you
like" NJ. Jouin, accompanied by De-
tectives Colmard and Robert, then pro-
ceeded to the upstairs living rooms,
AS measure Of precaution they took
Gouzy with them. Two of the de.
tectives entered front room while the
third, Robert, remained with Gouzy
on the landing Downstairs two other
police officers remained in charge of
a man named Cardy whom they had
taken into custody.
A Desperate Struggle.
Robert the only police officer who
Yves able to. give an account Of what
took place, did not see with his eyes
what happened Immediately after NJ.
Jouin and Colmard entered the front
room. But he presently heard the
noise of desperate struggle. He
rushed in and found NJ. Jouin and Col.
mard rolling on the floor with man
whom they had seized Colmard cried
) to Robert: -"Catch him by the should.
er; he has a revolver" Almost at the
same moment four Shots were fired.
NJ. Jouin and the man with whom he
had been struggling lay motionless on
the floor The other detective, Col.
mard, tried to rise, but could only ex.
claim, 81 am done for" Roberts, think
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both dead, fastened to remove his
wounded comrade Colmard from the
room and carried him downstairs and
to neighboring shop, When he re-
turned to the scene of the shooting he
found M. Jouin lying dead on the floor,
but his assailant had vanished.
Tho r1Uofar,, of 4bo
was revealed by a respectable woman
who occupied rooms on the same floor
as the scene of the crime. She mar
rated that she had heard the report
of four shots, and that shortly after
wards a man rushed into her kitchen
and threatened to shoot her if she
raised an alarm He looked out of the
window and, evidently with a view to
letting himself down, asked her to
give him sheet. She replied that she
had none, and Immediately afterwards
the man jumped from the window on
to the roof of some outhouses and es-
capped by way of the courtyard.
Murder Identified AS Bonnet.
The local magistrates; the Project of
the Paris Police, NJ. Lepine, and the
Chief Detective, NJ. Guichard, soon
afterwards arrived on the scene. The
room where the struggle had taken
place was carefully searched, and vari.
oGs effects of the fugitive bandit were
examined Ultimately in the inside
pocket of travelling bag, NJ. Gulchard
discovered a quantity of cartridges
with nickelplated bullets, and from the
similarity of this ammunition to that
which Bonnet habitually employed he
formed strong suspicion that the es-
capped criminal was no other than Bon.
not. Photographs of Bonnet were then
shown to various persons who had seen
the fugitive, and in particular to the
woman through whose kitchen he had
escaped. None of them had any diff