The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-02
PARIS AUTO BANDIT
KILLED IN BATTLE
eoNNoT AND NOTORIOUS AN.
ARcHIsT PERISH IN THRILL.
ING ENCOUNTER,
BLOWN WITH
Organized Outlaw Gang Had Terror.
lied Populace for Months, Com.
mitting Many MUIR
ders.

1pill oV.--itOnnOt, the leader
OF an organized gang OF automobile
bandits who have been terrorizing
Parls and the surrounding districts
Tor months past, and Dubois, a no.
torlous anarchist, were shot to death
IN one of the most thrilling O
tiers IN the annals of French crime.
A garage at Choisy lie Roi. six miles
south OF Paris, in which the bandits
mad taken refuge, was blown up by DIV.
Mantle after these two men had kept
at bay for hours a large part of the no..
ilce force of Paris, a contingent of
gendarmes, two companies of repub-
ilcan guards and a company of en-.
g1neers. Ten thousand spectators
viewed the battle from points of
vantage.
Bonnet and Dubois, after wounding
two policemen. took refuge in the
garage. They were trapped in the
building. which vas at once surround.
ed. ReinforcemeAts were dispatched
to aid the police, composed of gen
darmes, republican guards and en-
gineers. A battery Of artillery was on
the way from Versailles when a small
detachment of soldiers succeeded in
placing dynamite against the struc-
ture II blowing out the front wall.
Bonnet was captured alive. He was
rlddled with bullets and died on the
way to a hospital. The great crowd
that had gathered with cries of Death
to Bonnot," almost tore the bandit
from the soldiers, several of whom
were injured.
Par1sians, particularly automobilists,
have been in a state of terror because
OF the reckless crimes of the automo-
bile bandits, which reached a climax
in the murder of Assistant Superin.
tendent Jouin of the detective depart.
ment and wounding of Chief Inspector
Coleman by Bonnet. on the morning
OF April "a. The government then
ordered all the available police to hunt
the assassins day and night.
NJ. Guichard, superintendent OF de.
tectives, tracked Bonnet to the iso.
lated garage at Choisy lie Roi. AS
Guichard and his men approached, a
bandit, who proved to be Dubois. was
preparing to mount a motorcycle. He
answered the summons to surrender
by opening fire. while he returned to
the garage. At the same moment
there was a hail of bullets from a win.
dow and two detectives fell, one with
W bullets in his abdomen. It was
Bonnet shooting from the first floor,
The detectives retired and a general
alarm was sent out. Police, gen.
darmes, and all classes Of people.
camc quickly. They were armed with
muskets and revolvers, and directed
hundreds Of bullets at the garage,
from which came a steady rain of lead
In reply. Finally a cart was rugged up
with thick mattresses as a barricade
and the attacking party backed slowly
toward the garage, the dynamite
placed, and the front of the building
blown out.
All the while the bandits were vol.
leying steadily, but no one was hit.
AS the front wall collapsed with a
crash, the police and republican guards
rushed up. On the ground floor they
found Dubois dead. They mounted a
narrow stairway and observed Bon,
not streaming with blood. his left arm
in a sling, %crouching behind a mat.
!ress.
Bonnet was unconscious and ex-
PRED on his way to the hospital. The
doctors found ~ wounds. There were
two bullets in his head and two in his
abdomen, and they marvelled that he
lived as long as lie did. Dubois had
three wounds.
1t is estimated that 100000 persons
visited the cen of the battle during
the day. They saw only the ruins of
the garage. for, soon after the explo-
sion, flames broke out and DESTROYED
the structure.
About 80 members of the band have
now been arrested or are out of the
way. Evidence in the possession of
the police show that they pursued their
career by a marvellous system, having
agents in all parts of Europe. One of
the four members of the organization
arrested Saturday had check books
and accounts, proving that he was the
treasurer. He regularly invested the
stolen funds. When bonds or other
negotiable papers were stolen he ar
ranged for their sale to brokers' in
different parts of Europe.
The specially of the gang was hold
ing up bank messengers. In several
cases they obtained from $4,000 to
$4,000 in one haul. Ten murders are
charged to them in the last four