Evening star., 1913-03-02

PARIS, February -, 13l3
7HE automobile bandits. Thelr
trial and condemnation calls IL
memory months of fright. a
Period marked by public crimes
and daylight cruelties following
each other methodlcally. consternating the
Paris population tnat mad ceased To De-
lieve such things possible,
The tragic bandits. Suddenly they
surge UP, new kind OF desperate. Over
the high roads of France dash the bloody
expeditions OF Il reckless and scientific as
soclatiou, tile most formidable since the
DAYS of hrigands. Stolen automobiles ir-
r,a,,t Into towns from no one knew where,
bring off their desperate exploit. leave
dead and dying behind them and dlsap-
pear amid fusillade, having Bonnet. the
diabolIcal conductor. at the steering
wheel
Scientific and organized barbarlsm Is
invented They revive the old right of
asylum of the middle ages. They sustain
each other. assassinate tale-bearers. They
have 4 common center, TO distribute
arms. receive cash supplies and plan new
coups. They explain their herding to-
sethcr by political interest anarchy.
They have newspaper to keep them
posted. They use telegra ph telephone
and automobile with virtuoSity. Science
teaches them to appear and disappear,
to jump from one end OF France to the
other They obtain false civil status
papers. slip into the skin of others and
concert alibs. Science was the favorite
word of the red-handed Raymond.
Science" he says. lis the mother of us
ALL For months they kept the entire
police. newspapers and public Of France
looking for them.
Did science teach them?
YeS-and a woman.
The trial has brought it out: but can
you guillOtine a girl for evil influence
She laughed at the judges. Laughing is
her speciality. Her name is laughter. She
has the art to appear lightweight, incon-
sequential, frivolous and intelligent only
on the surface.
The bad girl of the tragic gang! A
delicate and educated young woman in
vented scientific desperado-raiding! She
is Rirette, which means Little Laugh;
and she entered the courtroom always
laughing and showing her white teeth.
She is Annie Maitrejean. surnamed
''Laughette," the wicked little center of
all these crimes, the wife of kilbalt-
chiche, the Chesterfieljian. who sat back
in his slippers while the companions"
were desperadOing. She looks so Irail
we'll bred. laughing and careless, who
would think her capable OF writing the
poisonous letters which the judge read
aloud: II am suffering great mcral sad
ness, wrote she. a little previous to the
first tragic exploits. "AnarchistS who talk
of honor and honesty and all that rot
It is intolerable to think that we have
propaganda-ed for such towards. Why
do they come to u.s.
Whom had she failed to corrupt? II
came to her ana kilbaltchiche in tiIl:r
house at Romaiavile, where the couple
published LAnarchie. Here met. fra
terniZed and listened to anarchist chats
those who were later to compose the
tragic band. Rirette, educated girl. who
had originally come UP from the CorreZe
to be a high-claSS goyerneSs, insinuated
the doctrine of individual taking back -
or in plain words, robbery. Little by lit
tie the 'flegalsts,' as she dignified them,
came to be the majority.
To get better food-wrote GARNER in his
note book-they committed burglarieS OF
provision stores They set up and printed
the anarchist paper. Between times queer
traffic began Companions wanted by
the police learned that they could al
ways obtain from CitizenesS Matrejean
new legal papers of civil status-coming
from different robbcries here centralized
Thanks to such official and authentic
identification documents, SO necessary in