Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-27
Eighteen Out of Twenty-Five
Prisoners Convicted.
TRIAL IN PARIS Is ENDED
More Than Score of Murders, Besides
Robberies, Charged in Indictments.
SEVERAL DRAMATIC INCIDENTS
Carouy, Anarchist Bandit" Ends
Life in Cell on Learning He
Faces Life Imprisonment.

PARIS, February 21.-The trial of the
gang of twenty-five auto bandits who held
Paris in terror for months ended today
after twenty-one days. A verdict OF
guilty was returned against eighteen OF
the prisoners on counts including murder.
arson and robbery. Four OF the accused.
including three woman accomplices, were
found not guilty by the jury.
Among the indictments were no fewer
than twenty murders. the victims be-
ing motor drivers, bank messengers.
freight agents and policemen. The gang
held up a number of suburban banks.
broke into the residences of prominent
people, killed the chief of the Paris de-
tectives set fire to buildings and, finally,
when their two leaders. Bonnot and Car
cier. We're in danger of arrest, underwent
two sfeges in the environs of Paris.
In the course of these sieges it was
found necessary to call out hundreds of
troops, whole squadrens of military.
mounted police and practically the entire
force of patrolmen, who bombarded the
bandits for many hours in their sane
tuares and then found several of the
leading spirits of the gang lying dead,
riddled with bullets.
Takes Poison in Eis Cell.
Even the conclusion Of their trial was
accompanied by tragedy, for Carouy. the
anarchist bandit" when he heard that
he was condemned to Imprisonment Tor
life, committed suicide in his cell in the
Conciergerie prison by taking poison.
which presumably was passed to him as
he left the courtroom. The trial was at
tended by all sorts of dramatic incidents.
The jurors were threatened time and
again with assassination by accomplices
of the accused. Many of the 3O4 witnesses
also We're menaced
The court itself was surrounded by
large force Of republican guards. Judges
and jurymen were placed under special
supervision and provided with strong
escorts.
When at last the evidence was brought
to a close and the jury had retired, a
tremor of excitement passed over the
spectators in the courtroom, for threats
had been mysteriously put into circula-
ton that something terrible would hap
pen. Nothing. however, occurred. Inc
jurymen remained out from O'CLOCK
yesterday afternoon until nearly O'Clock
this morning They had to consider
series of nearly 400 questions which had
been submitted them.
Verdict Is Incoherent.
When they returned into court their
written verdict was so incoherent, con-
tradiGtor., and lengthy that it had to be
explained to the presiding judge by the
foreman At the conclusion of the read
ing the spectators were stirred When
counsel for four of the bandits sprang
from their seats and declared that 1t was
Illegal for the presiding judge to ask
the Jury for oral explanations of writ
ten verdict They entered a strong pro-
test against such procedure. Their cllents
by the verdict were liable to the oeath
penalty and this was last effort TO
avert or postpone their fate. Another
dramatic incident occurred after the court
had deliberated on the protests by prison
ers' counsel and decided against them.
The presiding judge turned to the ac-
cused. and asked them If they had any
thing to say before sentence was pro-
nounced Callernn. who had been found
guilty of murder. shouted:
"My comrade. Dieudonne, was not the
assailant of the bank messenger, Caby.
1t was J..
This caused a tremendous sensation In
view OF the fact that Caby had repeatedly
asserted that Dieudonne shot him. The
Judges retired at 10 to deliberate as to
the sentences to be given the prisoners.
Four of the convicted bandits We're SEN
fenced to death by the guiilOtine. The
condemned men arc Dieudonne. Callemin.
Soudy and Monier. against whom a num-
ber of murders were proved. Fourteen OF
the OF hers were sentence to long terms of
Imprisonment