On Thursday the trial of the notorious gang of French
motor bandits was concluded in the early morning, the final hearing having lasted over twenty hours. Four of them were condemned to death, two to penal servitude for life, while the others received sentences varying from ten years' to a year's imprisonment. The three women prisoners were acquitted. The prisoner Carouy contrived to commit suicide after the ver- dict, and was found dead in his cell. It is believed that poison was thrown to him during the trial, wrapped in a piece of paper. The gang were criminals of a specially desperate character, and created for a time something like a reign of terror. As will be remembered, several of their associates were killed by the police in the efforts to bring them to justice. During the course of their murderings and plunderings the gang killed no fewer than eleven persons.
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