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A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES 89
Surete, and Chief Inspector Colmar were making a
domiciliary search in a house near Paris. Instead of
finding what they thought, a man crouching beneath a
bed sprang upon them, and in the fight Jouin was killed
and Colmar severely injured. Bonnot, although injured,
escaped by almost miraculous means.
At last, on April 29, the band, which had defied the
police force of Paris for four months, was discovered
concealed in a garage said to belong to a wealthy anarchist.
A body of police besieged the place, and after two
police officers were killed a dynamite cartridge was exploded
that destroyed the garage. Bonnot was then captured,
fighting to the last. The police reported the finding
of Bonnot's will, in which he says
brated man. . . .
Ought I to regret what I have
: "I am a cele-
done Yes, perhaps; but I must live my
life. So much
... I am
the worse for idiotic and imbecile society.
not more guilty," he continues, "than the sweaters who
exploit poor devils." (12) His final thought, it is said,
was for his accomplices, both of whom were women, one
his mistress, the other the manager
of the Journal Anarchic