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Show CAT-LIKE CRUELTY SHomssissi Outlaw Who Murders Anarchist An-archist Editor Shocks All - . . Paris by .Ferocity. . PARIS, . Dee. 5. The notice InvesilsK-tlons InvesilsK-tlons Into llic shoolinsr yeslerriny of M. Ducrot, editor of the anarchist newspaper, newspa-per, Free Idea. hIiow It was attended wttli circumstances of cold-blooded cruelty cruel-ty l bat arc rarely equaled in fantastic melodrama.- Lacombc, the anarchist assassin, burst Into M. Ducrct's room Tuesday hIrIU al 10:30. o'clock and v.itli a- pistol in icb bo ad announced to M. Ducrct and hla wife that they had sold htm and must die. From that hour until C.30 o'clock "Wednesday "Wed-nesday morning. Lacombc piled tlio couple cou-ple with oucsUons and thrcate, Irving to make them acknowledge tlicv "had betrayed blm. Tic played with ilium f a cat docs with a liiouse, alternately menacing and then foi-Rlvlny. .Mm p- Ducrct begged .acomhe to spare lieraelt and her hueband on account, of i heir o-year-old son. who was asleon In a crib at tho couple's bedside durln.? the whole of tlic horrlblo night. The bandit said, .however, that lie would kill the hoy. Finally Lacombc- fired two shots In ciulch Micccsslon at M. and Mine. Ducrct. Du-crct. who Instinctively threw themselves backward mid only jr. Ducrct wns hit. i he di-tonatlons of the assassin's rc-yolv-or. however, extinguished the lamp n the bedroom and Lacombc left, believing be-lieving that, both of them were dead. It appears that Locombe lodged at Ibo Ducrct home the nisht of November Novem-ber s, when four armed and masked men burst into tho postofficc at Bezons. a suburb of Paris, un.l shot and killed inc iii.-jbaiid of the postmistress and decamped de-camped with the money and stamps. hen I Acorn be sought to leave tho house . the next morning', he found Jt surrounded. Somehow he managed to escape and hide In an adjoining house until the police- left. Previously they' had made a fruitless search of the Ducrct Du-crct home. It was this fact that led Lacombc tn believe the two Ducrcts bad betraved htm. Tonlaht. it was tnld. M. Dueret baa some chance to recover from his wound, although his- condition is grave. Lacombc La-combc has not yet been arrested. i |