Arizona republican., 1912-04-29
Both Continue to Battle Until Building is Blown Up With
 Dynamite
REIGN OF TERROR
 COMES TO AN END
Events of Yesterday Were Most Sensational in French Criminal
 History
Associated Press Disbatchl

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 PARIS, April 2S.-Bonnot. leader oi
 the organized gang of automobile
 bandits, who have been terrorizing Paris and the surrounding district f-r months, and Dubois a notorious an- archist, were shot to death today iu
 the most thrilling encounter in the annals of French crime. The Garage Choisy- Roi. six mines south of
 Paris, in which they had taken refuge.
 was dynamited, after the two had kept at bay for hours a large part of
 the police force of Paris a contin- gent of gendarmes, two companies ot republican guards and a company of engineers.
 Ten thousand viewed the battle. BOnnOt and Dubois were trapped i'll the garage after wounding two police men. A battery of artillery was on the way from Versailles when the soldiers succeeded in placing dynamite ! against the structure and blowing ou't the front wall BonnOt was captured i alive but was riddled with bullets, and died on the way to the hispital. A great crowd had gathered. There
 were cries of death to Bonnot." and i the crowd almost tore the bandit from 1 the soldiers. several of whom were ] injured.
 ] All the available police have been | searching for Bonnot since Wednes- 1 day, when he murdered Assistant Su- perintendent Jouin. of the detective ! da1 l spector Coleman. At seven this morn ] ing Guichard superintendent of de- tectives, tracked Bonnot to an isolated | garage.
 1 As Guichard and his men approach
 ed, a bandit, who proved to be Du- bois, was preparing to mount a mo- 1 torcycle He answered a summons to
 surrender by opening fire, while he
 retreated to the Garage At the same ' moment there was a hail of bullets from a window and two detectives fell. Bonnot was shooting from the first i floor The detectives retired and 1 general alarm was issued, The ar rival of troops was followed by l rifle and revolver bombardment of the garage from which came steady rain of lead. Prefect Lepine tele- phoned the police to do nothing until
 he arrived. wen blow them up
 with dynamite" he said.
 Upon his arrival. a car was rigged up with thick mattresses as a barri- ] cade. When it reached the wall Lieu
 tenant Forteu emerged cooly and placed two huge sticks of dynamite against the building. Twice he light ed the fure, then there was a terrific report anu smoke and debris shot skyward All the while the bandits
 were firing but none was hit.
 As the wall collapsed the police and soldiers rushed up. On the floor was found Dubois dead from three wounds. They mounted the narrow stairway and observed a man. streaming with 1 blood. his left arm in a sling. Curse you. curse you," he cried as he pulled the trigger of his empty revolver. He reached for poison in his belt, but l before he could take it, he was over
 powered Hospital doctors found he
 had twelve wounds. There were two
 bullets in his head and two in the
 abdomen.
 | On Bonnot was a statement for the
 most part an anarchistic confession or
 faith. The concluding words, believed
 to have been written at the last mo- 1 ment were: q die. Jules Bonnot. He was armed with four revolvers
 and a carbine
 Cinematograph operators got pie
 lures of the whole seize. Garnier, Bonnot's co-chief is still at large, } but the police expect to capture him soon. The press gives prominence to
 the fact that the garage is owned by , Alfred Fromentin, the millionaire anarchist a friend or Ferrer, who was executed in Spain. The latter friends insist he is an enemy 10 violence and if the place was a head l quarters for the bandits, it was with 5 out his knowledge. Bonnot was 50, formerly served in the engineer corps of the army and was an expert chauf- feur.