The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-29
CHIEF OF MOTOR GAR BANDITS IS KILLED
 IN THRILLING FIGHT
Leader of Gang Which Ter rOrized Paris for Months
 Riddled With Bullets
NOTED ANARCHIST IS
 ALSO SHOT TO DEATH
Officers Trapped Victims in Garage Which Was namited-Bandit Tried to Take Poison When
 Brought to Bay

Brought to Bay
 Paris, April &.-Bonnot, leader of an organized gang of automobile bandits who have been terrorizing Paris and the surrounding district for months past, and Dubois, a notorious anarchist. were shot to death today. in the most thrilling en- counter in the annals of French crime.
 A garage at Choisy-Le-Roi. 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, contingent of gendarmes. two companies of republican guards and a company of engineers. Ten thousand spec tators viewed the battle from points of vantage.
 Equalled Famous London Fight
 Today's engagement equalled in dra- matic circumstances the encounter in January, 1911. described as 'the battle of London when desperadoes suspected of being the murderers of police in Hounds Ditch, were trapped in a house in the Whitechapel district. and went to their death battling against hundreds of Lon don police and soldiers.
 Bonnot and DuBois after wonnding two policemen today, took refuge in the garage. They were trapped in the build ing which was at once surrounded. Re- Inducements were dispatched to aid ths police. battery of artillery was on the way from Versailles, when a small de- tachment of soldiers placed dynamite against the structure and blew out the front wall
 Bonnot was captured alive. He was riddled 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 .he soldiers, several of whom were in~ jured
 Parisians. particularly automobilsts, have been in a state of terror because of the reckless crimes of the automo- bile bandits, which reached climax in tho murder of Assistant s4pertn- 'endent Join. of the detective depart nent, and the woundlng of Chief ln- spector Colmar by Bonnot, on tho morn ing of April 24. The government then ordered all the automobile police 10
 
 Located in Garage
 At o'clock this morning M. Guichard, of detectives. track ed Bonnot to the isolated garage at choisy. Le-Roi As Guichard and his men ap- preached, a bandit, who proved to be DuBols, was preparing to mount mo- torcycle. He answered the summons to by opening fire, while he re- treated to the garage. At the same moment there was a hall of bnlle .s from window, and two detectives fell, one with two bullets in his abdomen It was Bonnot shooting from the first fiocr.
 The detectives retired and general alarm was sent out. Police and all classes of people came quickly. They were armed with muskets and revolvers and directed hundreds of bullets at the garage from which came a steady ram Of lead in reply. M. Tepine was im- mediately notified, and he telephoned 10 the police 10 do nothing until he arrived We will blow them up with dynamite" he said. Meanwhile the republican guard and engineer corps arrived, while thousands Of per sons flocked to the scene from all di- rections, and occupied positions at q safe distance.
 They became so numerous that the SOL diers were forced to drive them back, as they were interfering with the progress of the siege
 M. Tepne. NJ. Guichard. and the com mander of the republican guard, held a council of war. and decided to use dyha- mite. Hundreds of gendarmes, armed with carbines. then began to encirele the building to prevent the escape of the bandits. A cart was rigged up with thick mattresses as a barrlcade. and the attacking party backed slowly toward the garage
 Motion Pictures Taken
 Prior to this excitement had been at fever heat. officers galloped back and forth. giving orders to restrain the crowds which were now surgng in the streets. But as the cart approached the building, great stiffness fell. It was so marked that one could even hear the click of the clnematograph machines, which the operators turned calmly so as not to lose A single picture of the drama.
 When the cart reached the wall, Lieu tenant Foreau emerged and coolY placed two huge sticks of dynamite against the building and ignited the fuse But no explosion followed. This operation was repeated twice. Then came a terrific re- port and column of smoke and debris shot skyward.
 Tried to Take Poison
 As the front wall crashed dove the police and republican guards rushed up. on the ground floor they found DuBois dead. They mounted narrow stairway and observed man streaming with blood, his left arm in a sling, crouched behind mattress. Blood was pouring from wounds in his head and chest. Curse you, curse you" he cried as he pulled the trigger of his empty revolver. He reached for poison in his belt, but before he .could take 1t he was overpowered. carried down and placed in an automo- bile.
 It was then that tine crowd changed into wild mob. bowling for the death of the bandit. The soldiers protected him with the butts of their cai Jines. but many blows fell on Bonnot before the automobile started off literally crushing down score of persons in clearing a pathway and speeded to Paris.
 Bonnot was unconscious and expired on his way to the hospital. The doctors found 12 wounds. There were two bull lets in his head and two in his abdomen. and they marvelled that he lived as long as he did DuBois had three wounds. He also wore belt containing poison, but 1t is considered improbable that he had time to swallow any of the preparatioll
 On Bonnot was found statement, consisting for the most part of an an erchist confession of faith and conclud ing with the words believed to have been feverishiy scribbled at the las, ~~-~-~~~-~-~-~-~~~~~~--~~-
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