New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-28
ALL PARIS APPROVES
SENTENCES ON BANDITS
Condemned to Penal Servitude
for Life, Carouy, in His Cell,
Swallows Cyanide.
POISON PASSED IN COURT
Facing Death for Other Crimes,
Callemin Accuses Himself
Of Murder Committed
by Dieudonne.
e. Cable TO The Trihun. |

I r." Cable to The Tribune.
! Paris. Feb 27.-The verdict OF the
jury in the bandits trial. finding eigh-
teen Of the twenty-five prisoners guilty.
and the various sentences imposed by
the court. including four COMBINATIONS
TO death. have thoroughly satisfied pup
lie opinion and are warmly approved
by newspapers Of every political shade,
With the sole exception. OF course. o,
the extreme socialist and anarchist
| sheets.
| The men on whom capital sentences
have been imposed are Dieudonne. Cal
lerir. known as Raymond la Science;
Soudy. grocers clerk. and Monier.
also known as Simentoff against all Of
whom number OF murders were
proved. Fourteen OF the others were
sentenced to various terms OF imprison-
ment. tho remaining four. RODRIGUEZ
and the three women accomplices. being
released.
Carouy. who. with Metge. was SEN
fenced TO penal servitude for life. was
found dead in his cell half an hour
after the prisoners had been removed
from the courtroom. II was ascertained
subsequently that a young man among
the spectators in the courtroom had
thrown 10 him q twist OF paper con-
during tho closing hours of the trial
this morning when the public and the
Journalists were RAISING messages TO
one another scrubbed on bits Of paper
By The Associated Press
| Paris, Feb. c,.-The trial OF the gang OF
| twenty-five automobile bandits. who held
! Paris in terror for months. ended today
after occupying tho court for twcnty-one
days. With verdict OF guilty against
| eighteen Of them on counts including
| murder. arson, robbery and many other
| kinds OF felony. Four of 'le accused IT.
! Guiding three women accomplices. were
| found not guilty by tho jury. The case
has taken precedence in public attention
| in France over the recent change OF
| Presidents. the Balkan war and tho Mex
| lean revolution.
/
the prisoners were no fewer than twenty
two murders. their victims being motor
drivers bank messengers. freight agents
/ and policemen They held Up a number
OF suburban banks broke into the rest
dcnces of prominent people. killed the
/ chief OF the Parts detectives SGT fire 70
| buildings. and. finally, when their two
leaders Bonnet and GARNER. were m
| danger Of arrest, underwent two sieEes IN
the environs Of Paris in the course o.
which II vas found necessary 10 call out
| hundreds % troops whole squadrons or
military. mounted police and practically
the entire force 90 patrolnen. who bonn
barded them for many hours in their
sanctuaries and then found several o, the
! leading spirits OF the gang lying dead.
| rddled uith bullets.
The trial has hecn attended ny all sorts
OF dramatic incidents. The jurors were
! threatened time and again with assasslna-
ti0n by accomplces OF the twenty two
acc Ised MANY Of tho 3N witnesses also
were menaced and even while the were
on the witness stand signs were made 10
! them in court that they would suffer for
giving testimony. The court itself was
surrounded by large force Of Republi-
can Guards. and Judges and Jurynen
were placed under specisl supervision ana
/ provided with strong escorts whenever
| they left the building
I Whom a. last the evidence Was brought
70 a close and counsel FOR tho prosecution
and defence had delivered their al
| dresses and tho jIrv had retired, tre-
I mnr Of excitement passed over the spec
4 ,atoys in the courtroom. for threats we're
rnyrteriously put into circulation that
something terrible would happen. Notn-
/ inr however. occurred.
The Jury remained out from o clock
yesterday afternoon until'nearlv : o'clock
this morning They had 10 consider a
series OF nearly four hundred questions
which Rad been submitted 20 them.
When they returned into court their
written verdict was found TO be so inco-
herent. contradictory and long that II had
10 be explained 20 the presiding Judge by
.he foreman before ~ coald be read
At the conclusion OF the reading the
! spectators we're stirred by the counsel for
four Of the dits-Dieudonne. Caue-
min. soudy and Monler--sprinGing M
| from their seats ana DECLARING mat u
vas illegal for the presiding judge To asn
the fury for oral explanations after they
had written their verdicis. They en,"red
a strong protest against SUCH procedure.
Their clients By the verdict OF me JURY
were rendered liable TO tie death penalty.
ami this was last effort 10 avert or post
pone their fate.
Another dramatic incident occurred AZ
ter tho court had delberated on the pro.
tests by prisoners counsel ana deciucu
against them on a point OF Low.
The presiding judge turned TO the ac-
cused and asked them Il they had any
thing more 20 say before sentence was
pronounced Upon them. Callemin' facing
death sentence. spranC from MS seat pc
tween the Republican Guards ana shouted
NY comrade Dieudonne nas c sp' 'nf
assailant Of the bank messenger Nao'
Was and my chief. Garnler'
sers,tjon in view OF the fact that 'sbS
t,ad rsneateJIv asserted that IL was Dieu-
| dorne who had shot HIM.
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