Chauffeurs De La Drôme
The Chauffeurs de la Drôme (The Heaters of Drôme) was a gang of four French criminals who were responsible for a wave of theft, torture, and murder in the Departments of France, department of Drôme in southeast France during the early years of the twentieth century. Three were execution, executed in September 1909; the fourth, captured later, was sentenced to life imprisonment with penal labour, hard labour at the penal colony on Devil's Island, French Guiana, (tantamount to a death sentence, aka "Dry Guillotine"), and died there. Criminal career The four men were Octave-Louis David (b.1873), Pierre-Augustin-Louis Berruyer (b.1873), both shoemakers; Urban-Célestin Liottard (b.1863), a labourer, and Jean Lamarque. David had a long criminal career and was claimed to be the ringleader. He had met Lamarque in prison, and through him met Berruyer. Beurruyer's house in Romans-sur-Isère was where Lamarque and the fourth man, Liottard, lived as boarders. The gang typically carried ...
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