The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-05-23
USE DYNAMITE FOR BANDITS.
Last~Two of Desperate Gang Killed
Near Paris.

Paris, May 15.-The career of the
last of Frances bandit gang was
dramatically ended this morning,
when, after an eight-hours' battle,
it's leader, Octave GARNER, and his
confederate, Wallet, were blown up in
an explosion of small villa at No.
gent-Sur-Marne, where they had
taken refuge.
They were shattered by shots of
| dynamite, their house fell in when
melinite was exploded under its
walls. The police found GARNER
dead and Wallet dying. Five police
men were wounded in the battle.
Undaunted and for hours unharm-
ed by bullets and dynamite, Octave
GARNER, the rebel leader and last
of the notorious bandit gang, which
has terrorized Paris, was fighting
desperately for life at midnight, with
his confederate Wallet.
Resist Stubbornly.
All the forces for the protection
of society had failed to dislodge
them. Several thousand police, gen.
darmes and zouaves tried for hours
to shoot the bandits or blow up the
building with explosives, but though
the villa was badly damaged by dy-
Mantle, the bandits for hours mirac-
ulously held their own and showed
no signs of surrendering. Unlike
Bonnot, whose refuge was dynamited
at Choisy-Le-Roi, GARNER made his
last stand in a house hidden by foil
age and surrounded closely by other
buildings, rendering an assault diff
cult and dangerous. Bonnot and Du-
bois fought in a garage, which could
be approached from all sides.
demon Chauffeur
Bonnot, the demon chauffeur,
was remarkable for his skill at the
wheel of automobiles. Carriers
speciality was disguise. He went so
far as to mutilate his eyelids to
change his appearance and by resort
ing to every scheme exploited in de-
tective fiction he succeeded in evad-
ing the police dragnet, which had
been spread over Paris and the sub
urbs.
Carriers mistake came in trying
to negotiate stolen securities at a
branch of big banking house
whereby he and his companions,
Wallet and Vuillemin, were traced to
Nogent. All three, who were decid-
ed blondes, dyed their hair jet black.
Tracked to Fair.
An indiscretion by the woman
Vuillemin, to-day enabled the police
to fix their lair to certainty. She
went to a public pump to get drink
ing water, where she was met by a
Partisan woman. Vuillemin, who is
of Basque origin, carried the jug of
water on her shoulder, after the GUS
tom of the country. The Partisan,
struck by the picture, stopped her
and exclaimed:
How beautiful you are madame.
You should pose for a portrait.
Then the Partisan, with woman's
penetration, decided that her hair
was dyed. The comments and in
quiries put the police on the track.
Crowds Hamper Officers.
Again, as in the case of the BATTLE
at Choisy-Le Roi, the efforts of the
police and military were greatly
hampered by the vast crowds. At
tempts were made to blow up the
building by throwing dynamite cart
ridges from the adjacent viaduct and
a perfect hail of bullets was thrown
into the house.
The authorities telephoned for
melinite, and after the arrival of a
searchlight, a quantity of the high
explosive was placed against the
lower wall of the villa. At the con-
cussion more debris was hurled sky
ward
The explosion left yawning open
ing in the villa, through which po-
lice dogs sprang while the police and
troops sent volley after volley OF
bullets into the ruins of the building.
Rush Into Ruins.
Some of the bullets riccochetted
from the bricks, while others emerg-
ed on the opposite side, the result of
which was that two policemen were
wounded. Then an armed force
holding torches, rushed into the
ruins and discovered the two ban
dts on the floor in a room.
GARNER was entirely naked, save
for a few tattered rags. He appear
ed to be dead. Wallet was dead or