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CLOTHING MANUFACTURER USES DAUGHTER IN MURDER PLOT AGAINST LABOR THE DAY BOOK N. D. Cochran. Editor and Publisher. i398 500 South Peoria St. TfL Monroe 353. VOL.2,NQ.128 Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 27, 1913 ONE CENT SCENES OF HORROR AS PHANTOM BANDITS HEAR DOOM; ONE ENDS LIFE STRANGELY Carouy, Sentenced to Life, Chokes Self to Death by Eating Own Undershirt Four Must Lose Heads on "Red Lady" One of Them Innocent. -.r. Paris, Feb. 27. Never were such scenes enacted in the stately old Palais de Justice as occurred today when the dreaded Phantom Bandits were sentenced. The courtroom was packed with men and women seeking sen sations. The streets around the building were jammed with the dregs of Paris. Gendarmes were everywhere, ready to shoot at the slightest sign of trouble. The jury filed in with its ver dict after sixteen hours of wran gling behind closed 'doors. The jurors' faces were white; their hands trembled when the fore man handed the verdict to the judge. The verdict was long and ram bling. The judge read it slowly, a frown gathering ononis face as he .proceeded. The twenty-two bandits, rem nants of thei banfthat so long ter rorized all Paris, murderers of over a scone of policemen, bank messengers, chauffeurs and freight agents, leaned forward tensely. "This verdict is so incoherent it cannot be understood," said the judge at last, his voice harsh and cold. The court began a long inter pretation of parts of the verdict, explaining what he thought the jurors must mean by particular phrases. Counsel for the accused sprang to their feet and loudly cried that lit was not proper so to interpret a verdict written out by a jury. The judge went on reading, and at last came to the sentences. "Diedonne, Callemin,'' Soudy and Monier shall be adjudged guilty of murder and executed on the guillotine," he read. Diedonne sprang ' to his feet with a terrible cry. j m