Webster City freeman., 1912-04-30
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Ebb and Flow of
Battle. m
GARAGE is BLOWN UP; 2 KILLED
Police Compelled to Take This Meth
cd Of Dislodging
Men.

Paris. April Bonnott, the
leader of an organized gang of auto
mobile bandits, who have been ter
rorizing Paris and the surrounding
district for months, and Dubois, a
notorious anarchist, were shot to
death yesterday in the most thrill
ing encounter in the annals of
French crime.
A garage at Choisy-le-R six
miles south Of Paris, in which the
bandits had taken refuge, was blown
up by dynamite, after these two men
had kept at bay for hours a large
part of the police force of Paris, a
contingent of gendarmes, two COM
panies of republican guards and a
company of engineers Ten thous-
and spectators viewed the battle
from points of vantage.
Yesterdays engagement equaled
in dramatic circumstance the en-
counter in January, 1911, described
as ''the battle of London" when
desperadoes suspected of being the
murderers of police in Houndsditch
were trapped in a house in the
Whitechapel district and went to
their death battling against humid
reds OF London police and soldiers.
Bonnott and Dubois, after wound
ing two policemen yesterday, took
refuge in the garage. They were
trapped in the building, which was
at once surrounded. Reinforcemnts
were despatched to aid the police,
composed of gendarmes, republican
guards and engineers. A battery of
artillery was on the way from Yer
sailles when small detachment of
soldiers succeeded in placing dyna-
mite against the structure and blow
ing out the front wall. Bonnott
was captured alive. He was riddled
with bullets and died on the way
to hospital. The great crowd that
had gathered, with cries of death
to Bonnott" almost tore the bandit
from the soldiers, several Of whom
were injured.
Parisians, particularly automobil-
lists, have been in a state of terror
because of the reckless crimes of the
automobile bandits, which reached
a climax in the murder of Assistant
superintendent Jouin of the detect
i've department and the wounding of
Chief Inspector Coleman by Bonnott
on the morning of April "a. The
government then ordered all the
available police to hunt the assas-
sins day and night.
At Z o'clock yesterday morning M.
Guichard, superintendent of detect
ives, tracked Bonnott to the isolated
garage at Choisyle- AS Guich-
ard and his men approached, a ban
dit, who proved to be Dubois, was
preparing to mount a motorcycle. He
answered the 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, one
with two bullets in his abdomen 1t |
was Bonnott shooting from the first
floor. The detectives retired and a
gen sral alarm was sent out Police.
gendarmes and all classes of people |
came quickly. They were armed
with muskets and revolvers and di.
rected hundreds of bullets at the
garage, from which came a steady
rain of lead in reply. NJ Lepine,
prefect of Paris, was Immediately |
notified and he telephoned instruc-
tions to the police to do nothing un-
til he arrived. I'VE will blow them
up with dynamite" he said.
Meanwhile the republic guard and
engineer corps arrived, while thous-
ands f1ocked to the scene from
all directions and occupied positions
at safe distance. They became so
numerous that the soldiers were
forced to drive them back, as they
were interfering with the progress
Of the siege, which was conducted
a aggressively.
NJ. Lepine, NJ. Guichard and the
OF the Republican guard
held a council Of war and decided to
use dynamite. Hundreds OF gendar-
ines, armed with carbines, then be-
gan to encircle the building to pre-
vent the escape of the bandits. A
art was rugged up with thick mat
.resses as a barricade and the attack
ng party backed slowly toward the
,arage. /
Prior to this, excitement had been
It fever heat. officers galloped back