Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-11-20
THE APAcHEs OF PARIS.
1000 Banded Criminals Whom the
Police Let Alone.

yes, and yet would be surprised TO near
of an emigration Of Apaches from
Paris to the United States. Yet
there was to have been such an emf
grafton presently, the funds providing
for 1t being the proceeds of murder.
The emigration was prevented by the
arrest the other day Of the murderers
only three of the many murderous
,Apaches of Paris. In the United States
the Apache Indians as trouble makers
have been only a name for good
many years now, but in Paris the
Apaches-not Indians, but men worse
than the worst of the Indians, and TAX
ing their name from them-are a very
real trouble and a constant menace to
the city.
Scarcely a day goes by and rarely
week passes without some crime OF
this outlaw element coming to notice
in newspapers. And many Of their
crimes never come to public knowledge
at all.
It is said that there are about 1000
of these ruffians who have found that
they can live without working in this
capital, and they proceed to do so, kill
ing men and women without hesitation
in the pursuit of their ends. They
commit murders in the streets and In
buildings indiscriminately; business
iplaces or domiciles, merely to get pos
session of money. The police know all
about them and let them alone till az
ter the crime is committed.
The name Apaches, which is univer-
sally applied to them, may be an out
growth Of the time when the violent
deeds of the American Apaches were
of frequent mention in the news OF the
day, or it may have had some other
origin. The French do not use the
term as meaning merely Indians" In
the sense that Indian" Is now some
times used in New York slang, but
specifically to describe these assassins
who do not work, who prowl in small
bands mainly at night, and who shoot
or stab a person apparently as an
| agreeable pastime in the course OF a
robbery, even when they do not muir
der.
An American who has but lately
passed out Of this world was planning
Before he died to write a protest
against the employment Of this Indian
name to designate the Paris thugs.
the American Indians and wanted to
clear them Of the imputation of being
so contemplate as these Apaches of
Paris. He hoped, too, that the Sun
would defend the Indians, sentimental
as he acknowledged his campaign of
protest to be.
On Saturday, September s, a feeble
old woman, who had considerable
means, was murdered in her home
here by a young fellow who called
there, saying that he was sent by her
married daughter to get the latter's
parasol. The fellow was a brother Of
a little boy who, up to a couple Of days
before, had been employed by the
woman's SON. in-law, and therefore he
was admitted.
The woman was alone and ne i'm
mediately murdered her and took her
money, jewelry and laces away with
him in a parcel wrapped in an illus
trated newspaper The parasol for
which he had asked was found beside
her body.
In a haunt of the Apaches, Of whom
he was one, the murderer was arrested
on the following Sunday evening. The
police do catch criminals after the act
here. He is sixteen years old. With
him was his mistress. aged twenty
six, wearing some Of the property of
the murdered woman.
The crime had been planned by the
murderer's twelve -year-old brother, the
little boy who had been employed by
| the old woman's son-in-law and whom
she herself had many times befriend-
ed The term employed is used advis-
edly. The boy would not do any real
work, but he was tolerated and paid
because he was amusing, with sort
Of gamin impudence, and his mother
was a worthy serving woman known
to his employer.
| Both brothers and the woman who
was the elders companion are in GUS
tody. OF such are the Apaches of
Paris.
| This sixteen-year-o criminal at
first told the commissary of police that
he was innocent and had spent Satur-
day afternoon in a concert hall. which
he named, with comrades whom he
could designate. This form Of alibi
is usual with the Apaches. He was a
Young workman. he said who after
he should have done his military SER
vice for the country had only one
wish, to be a policeman, as he detest-
ed criminals.
When the evidence showed him that
he was found out he changed his at
titude abruptly but calmly, acknowl-
edged the crime and said that with
10000 francs-proceeds Of the murder
and robbery-he and two companions
One Of his companions was an elec-
trician and the other mechanic and
they had planned, he said, to open an
automobile repair shop in America.
From time to time the newspapers
of Paris take up the question Of the
Apaches, and sporadically they de-
nounce the policy of the police which
permits the Apaches' murderous activ-
ity in the streets and the boulevards;
but the subject is soon dropped, and
nothing is done toward the repression
Of the criminals. 1t used to be said
that only on the outer boulevards were
the Apaches dangerous, but only last
week lie Matin called attention in a
conspicuous article to the fact that
they had become emboldened enough
to frequent even the central Opera Sec
ton, the very heart of the city.
They sneak under the trees of the
Champs Elysees and they infest the
Bois de Boulogne. besides operating in
the streets. In roundup in the
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