Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06

airs when older members of the corpora ton
stand back in the shadow,
Do not hope to find the daily list of their
exploits in Paris papers. For all that is
highway robbery. hold-ups and nocturnal
Standings, the Paris prefecture took new
policy two years ago.
The prefecture does not give out the
"usele as cases" to the, public any more
Publicity encourages the Apache. who de-
lights in this nickname Of deadly red
skin. and publicity In no wise helps to
catch the criminal. And the Paris repu-
tation-we must not give Paris bad
,, name,
Daylight savagery is harder to conceal
1t was only day before yesterday after
noon that an elderly well-tO-do man was
found stabbed on a bench in the shrubbery
of the Champs Elysees-robbed Of watch
and purse. That same day at am. two
English tourists were stunned and robbed
in the little square behind Notre Dame.
Yesterday afternoon two policemen found
a nneteen-year-old medical student wal
lowing in his blood In the Boulevard de Ia
Niilette. Two tCughs stopped him and
asked him for cigarette. The same mo-
ment one planted a knife in his back. and.
frightened by his cries. the rescas ran
away without even searching their victim
But the height of daylight insolence Is
found i'll the ACCORDION Dodge related in
this mornings papers
II seems that Apaches of the Boulevard
Eoltairc have worked the ACCORDION
Dodge for two weeks past. The great OBJ
lection to day operation" being victims
cries the Apaches stole two Big accordeons.
Then while promising subjects were being
dore up in a convenient alley. two musical
rascais of the band tore off The Waltz of
Roses in blatent unison.
From my own bed room window in
Neuily recently witnessed an abomiRable
case. My window gives on the small. chic,
but entirely residential rue St Pierre. At
l am. l was awakened by a piteous cry
of Helm "ASSaSSinS.'
Running to the window 1 looked down
into the rue ST. Pierre. On the sidewalk,
..Wnl no one Gomez he gathered strength
to cry at intervals. "Cowardsr Ego
istes!'' Lie in your beds while 1 bleed
TO DEATH I'm stabbed. I'm stabbed
Windows opened Neuilly citizens peeped
out. Its shame!" voice replied to voice.
Where are the police?'
was half-dressed. l give my word that
1 was going down with a big pstol-and
that I should certainly have found myself
alone-when the police arrived. They
shortly took him on a stretcher. He died
in the morning.
Indeed the Apache mastry Of the Paris
ness men and Observation-Disclosures the
most negligent and selfish in the world
are cIamoring for preventive measures"
What the Police Say.
But in criminal matters there can be
no preventive Justice!" answer the police.
In our rafles can dragnet a lot of
morally certain thugs. But when each
turns out to have legal domicile. and
none falls under particular articles Of the
code. We are obliged to release them
BY a coincidence, that very evening as
we quit the Boulevard cafe we saw fie
that modern institution enlivening to
Paris streets.
There was sudden confusion, a swift fit
I.
revolver shots. a dashing into cafes by the
populace. swift individual scrimmages-and
then closed in. approaching each other, two
dark lines of fifty police in uniform.
II there were a hundred police there
We're another hundred plain-clothes men
operating between the lines. Every loafer,
souteneur, Apache and beggar three blocks
up and down the thronged boulevard was
taken.
Why just here" inquired the tourist
lady.
1t is this quarters turn" replied the
expert. Monsieur Lepine has not enough
police and surete men to work more than
one rafie in highland continue the usual
policing of Paris
ON what charge are they drag netted?"
asked the lawyer.
"On what charge are they dragnetted?'
PariS'-but makeShifts like no visible sup
port no domicile.' special vagabondage.'
which means living Oh the shame of wom-
en- and various irregularities vis-a-vis the
pOllCe-SuCn as having Deen IOTDlQQen Dy a
judge to .nhabit Paris for a specified time
And you say they will haye to be re-
leased?'
Bah, there is scarce f1fteen-year-old
cautions taken. Domicile? Surely. he gives
street and number, certified by the local
commissary. Means OF livelihood? He
works-junk- apprentice is a favorte
pretext. some fences. for a weekly dole.
holding themselves ready to respond for q
dozen young villains EACH
The very mingling of Paris virtue with
this vice provides the average Apache with
q trade. Paris foresight wills trade for
every boy. Apprenticeship are still in
vogue. And even street boys are proud of
some trade dexterity. As for work. they
work just enough to prove that they
worked-recently.
The rahe simply keeps them moving. or
forty taken in the dragnet, ten will pos
sbly be held on fiimsy. Ave on holding
charges-regularly wanted" men, whose
Identification by the Bertillon method is
one of the utilities of the rale. The rest
fit temporarily to some other Paris quar-
tier in ominous immigration movement.
In the ideals of their girls the expert
said, their lives are romantic IS knights
errant. Just Tancred of Hauteville led
his little band from Normandy, become too
hot for them. to easy Italy. so the Panther
of Pantin or the Terror of Montmartre
transfer their observation-disclosures
or Auteuil.'
Internecine Warfare.
And then they have to fight with local
bands?" the tourist lady beamed with fiut-
tering interest. agog with the scummy
romance OF II as young brutes skunk past
us in the twilight.
Yes. they often fight to gain footing
as fought Tancred. 1t is like a return to
old history. There are high alliances be-
tween gars Costeau, cesslons of territory
in grave conferences. banquets to cement
new friendships, and sudden, terrible expIo-
sions over women-do you not remember
how Casque dor. the golden haired kept
two Paris wards in turmoil during fifteen
days."
When Auteui was last invaded the dis
tracted police commissary found nothing
better than to warn the citizens
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