Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-08-01
A Thrilling Story Of the Fight
Made BY Paris Police To
Stamp Out Fearless
Outlaws.
LEADER KNOWN AS TIGER"
BY MAURICE LE BLANC.

ed at the pretty. peaceful village of
Choisy-le-Roi, just outside OF Paris,
n which has caused such emotion and
horror not only in France, but through
out the whole world, was only the Gull
lminating point of a desperate IA
which has been Waged for over four
months between the police of France
n those who nave been called the
Tragic Band"
Although this band was not under
although GARNER, a sa%ngufnary youth
who was a veritable monster, pos
sessed nearly to the same extent as
Bonnet the sense OF action. a owe of
instant decision, 1t is evident that 1t
was the latter. shot like a mad dog.
band. His was the intelligence which
organized, the will which executed.
The Tiger Bandit.
Soudy. Raymond La Science even
Carouy. were caught, as II were. secret
ly, without noise, without any fuss-at
the corner of a street or at the door of
a railway station. But for Bonnet, a
bandit of altogether different make, a
kind of inhulnan monster. a killer of
men by instinct and profession, for
Bonnet TO die there had to be a regular
siege with republican guards. tiremen
IL all the police of Paris-3,OOO men
on foot, all the %peasantry of the district
armed with guns and pitchforks. n
10000 frenzied spectators, p~hotogra-
pliers. moving picture men and auto
mobilists-in short. the last act of a
great spectacular drama.
And there, alone in the garage, stand
ing by his dead companion, revolver In
hand. the wild beast faced his our
suers, terrible to the last. Here is a
man, as he appeared, a representative
man." as Emerson might have called
him. From The physical standpoint. the
most salient characteristic of his face
is its slyness. His eyes are shifty. APP
pearing to avoid the light. They are
dissimilar, half closed.
The Tiger Bandit was the name
which those who came across his path
gave him. Thus Bonnet, who was not
a powerful man, yet was the victor over
those two %cOlossi, Assistant Chief Jouin
n Brfgadier Colmar.
Forming the Band.
He started his campaign with some
burglaries at Lyons and Geneva, all ac-
| cording to a concerted plan. 1t vas
only gradually that other malefactors
began to throw in their lot with him..
And then the idea of operating on a
big scale came to Bonnet. A band was
formed, n grew larger, more extern
sive In it's ramiflcations. GARNER, Valet.
Soudy. and the rest associated them
selves with him. Secret councils We're
held, definite relations established with
the anarchist world.
Carouy came in with the prestige of
| his past career as a militant anarchist
and orator Then came Raymond la
Science" as Callenlin was called, look
ing physically a weakling, but one of
the most ferocious and desperate of all.
Il wish to live" wrote Bonnet, in
! that strange n stupid will of his. Ito
live my life. Every man has the right to
live. But to live in the sense understood
by Bonnet. that is to say to do moth
ing at all, it Is necessary to usurp the
| place of those who work. To live ones
life, it is necessary, from time to time.
to crush out ones fellows"
According to the details given me
Bonnet succeeded early in the history of
| the group in obtaining ar ascendancy
! over his colleagues. At one of the pre-
liminary reunions he, with a clear
sighted mastery of detail n a prac-
| tical grasp which completely carried
operations he had formed and pointed
out what instruments they would need.
Arms first of all. These we can
obtain by breaking into gunsmiths'
shops
'.Then"-and this was the most orig
inal note of the scheme-"automobiles
must be used" AT this meeting he
spoke. it seems, for nearly two hours,
n left an impression upon his hear
ers that here was the man III would
lead them into battle against a foe
more formidable than any encountered
by Napoleon-society, which must al
ways win in the end.
He pointed out how easy 1T was for
a few men, Well armed and with plenty
of to terrorize 100 0 ordinary
citizens.
NapoIeonic Plans.
Let four or five of us be in an
automobile armed with revolvers. We
jump out and two or three of us set
upon some bank messenger, whom we
know to be carrying money. while
Others fire at random to brighten the
But here GARNER. the terrible Car
nier, the boy OF 20 with the mead of
an Adonis, corrects his colleague,
laughing.
"Oh. no; not at random. If they are
to be frightened we must fire to kill"
h formula was found: to clear an
empty space round by filling the
crowd with terror. to clear a space,
eve IL for a few seconds only. so as
to be masters of the situation, and
act.
And the program of action? Here
1t is. taken from the list OF their crimes
after a series of isolated burglaries:
On the 9Th of March. at Charleroi.
they attempted the murder of Police
man Desmarey. In August. at Nancy.
there was the burglary at Diemer's
house. On December 10, at B%oulogne-
sur-Seine, the theft of L~enormand's
automobile store: December 21. at
Paris. the attack and attempted muir
der of Bank Messenger Camy; Deem
Der ~, at Paris. burglary of Gunsmith
Foury's shop in the Rue Lafayette.
December 81, at Anduze, burglary Of
the postoffice and burglary Of the house
of ROcher. q retired diplomat. These
were all in 1911.
On January 10. 1912. came the bur
glary of the gunsmith's shop on the
Boulevard Haussmann: on January %.
at Client. the theft OF DIR. Vernieuve's
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