The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-30
MURDEROUS PARIS GPACHES.
1000 BANDED CRIMINALS WHOM
THE POLICE LET ALONE.
Robbers VINO InGest the streets % the
French Capital and DO Not Hesitate 20
km-Crime Planned by 13-Year-OId
Lad, Executed by l0-Hear-OSd Brother.

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Lad, Executed by l0-R ear-OSd Brother.
PARIS. Sept. 2i.--Do you know the
Apaches? Doubtless most Americans
would answer yes, and yet would be sur
prised to hear Of an emigration OF Apaches
from Paris to the United States. Yet there
was to rave been such an emigration pres
emily. the funds providing for it being the
proceeds Of murder.
The emigration was prevented by the ar
rest the other day Of the murderers-only
three Of the many murderous Apaches OF
Paris. In the United States the Apache
Indians al trouble makers have been only
a nam for a good man years now, but
in Paris the Apaches-not Indians, but men
worse than the worst OF the Indians, and
taking their name from them-are n very
real trouble and a constant menace TO the
city.
Scarcely a day goes by and rarely a week
passes without some crime Of this outlaw
element coming to notice in the newspapers.
And many OF their crimes never come. to
public knowledge at all.
1t is said that there are about 1000 OF
these ~rufYians who nave found that they
can live without working in this capital,
and they proceed to do so, killing men and
women without hesitation in the pursuit OF
their ends. They commit murders in the
streets and in buildings Unfortunately;
business places or domiciies, merely to get
possession Of money. The police know all
about them and let them alone till after
the crime is committed.
The name Apaches, which is universally
applied to them, may be an outgrowth Of
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American Apaches were Of frequent men,
ton in the news of the day, or it may ave
had some other origin. The French do
not use the term as meaning merely In
dams" in the sense that Indian" In now
sometimes 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 murder.
An American who has but lately passed
out Of this world was planning before he
died to write a protest against the employ
ment of this Indian name to designate
the Paris thugs. He regarded it as an out
a against the American Indians and
wanted to clear them OF the imputation
Of being 80 contemplate as these Apaches
Of Paris. He hoped, too, that The Sun
would defend the Indians, sentimental
as he acknowledged his campaign Of pro-
test to be.
On Saturday, September 3, 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 son-in-law, and therefore
he was admitted.
The woman was alone and. he imme-
diately murdered her and took her money.
jewelry and laces AVA with him in a parcel
wrapped in an illustrated 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 10
years old. With him was his mistress, age
%, wearing some Of the property of the muir
dered woman.
The crime had been planned by the muir
derer's t~welve-year-old brother, the little
boy who had been employed by the old
womal's son-in-law and whom she herself
had many times befriended. The term
employed is used advisedly The boy would
not do any real work. but he was tolerated
and paid because he was amusing, with a
sort Of gamin impudence, and his mother
was a worthy serving woman kno wn to his
employer.
Both brothers and the woman who was
the elders companion are in custody. OF
such are the Apaches OF Paris.
This sixteen-yoar-old criminal at first told
the commissary of police that he was inI o.
cent and had spent Saturday afternoon in
a concert hall. which he named, with COM
rades 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 service for the
country had only one wish, to be a police
man, as he detested criminals.
When the evidence showed him that he
was found out he changed his attitude
abr lptly but calmly, Acknowledged the
crime and said that with 10000 francs
I proceeds Of the murder and robbery-he
and two companions we're to have JAILED
soon for America. One Of his companions
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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 Apsches,
! and sporadically they denounce the policy
of the police which permits the Apaches'
| murdsrous activity in the streets and the
boulevards; but the subject is soon dropped,
and nothing ia Gone toward the repression
Of tie criminals. II used to be said Thai
only on the outer b~oulevards were the
Apache" danger"uT, but only last week
lie MdtiR called attention in a conspicuous
article 10 the fact thai hey had become
emboldened enough 20 frcquen: even the
central Opera section, the very hrNr' Of
tie city.
T'cy sneak under the trees of the Champs
Elysess and they infest tie Bois de Bou-
logne, besides operating in the streets. In
a roundup in rhe neighbo:hood Of the
Bcis not long ago the police captured some
forty Of them oil armed with long knives.
When they IRE picked up in the streets,
"a occasionally happens, they often pro-
duce papers signed by small merchants
saying that the holders are at work for
them. Investigation has shown hat the