El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-25
POLICE
WAGING WAR
ON APACHE5
Would Exterminate Organ
lied Gang Of Blood
thirsty Criminals.
GHOULS ALSO BEING
VIGOROUSLY HUNTED
. ARIs. France. April 25-Police &C.

II ARTS, France, April 25.-Police ac-
tivities against the apaches and
the ghouls who desecrate the
graves Of the wealthy in the big Paris
cemeteries continue with unabated zeal
and the authorities are finding plenty
Of employment. The introduction. not
long ago. Of new regulations giving
the police power to search suspicious
characters for firearms has been OF
considerable aid to the police in their
difficult work Every day a regular
campaign is carried on against the
apaches Of the outer districts. Raids
are made periodically on the known
resorts of these yillainous pests. re-
CARELESS Of whether the police suspect
the presence Of any. particular criminal
in the place raided. It generally hap
pens that one or two wanted men are
caught at each raid
Police Raid Whole District.
OF late il has not been al uncom-
mon thing for the police to raid q
whole district and employ some 500 or
400 detectives and gendarmerie in the
work in two Of these organized cru
Sades against the criminals with which
the city is infested-both occurred dur
lug the last few days-the police ar
rested no fewer than 800 people on each
occasion
All the prisoners were taken to the
district stations and after being sub
mitted to the most searching examina-
ton, those not wanted for some crime
or other were allowed TO depart The
visitor to Paris who sees only the beau
tful boulevards has no possible con-
ception OF the condition in the under
world and no other city in the world
can supply the statistics Of crime
which the police Of Paris gather every
year
Epidemic OF Murders Occur.
Since the murder OF NJ. Calmette a
regular Epidemic Of revolveromania
seems to have broken out With pos
sibly six exceptions there IS a daily
story Of murder or attempted murder
bv Shooting. Starting with March 16,
when a woman was shot by her hus-
band and a man named LIE Billiard was
arrested for shooting at passerby for
amusement" as he cauOusly told the
magistrate, there has been a story OF
revolver crime almost every day Two
people shot at DOuaT'; 'Inkeeper shot
at the door Of his cabaret; Police
man fired on at Maubenge"; are eX-
amples Of eveE recurring headlines in
the newspapers To continue the Sc
Cueuce are reports Of the shooting
of a husband BY his wife at La Vii
lette; a woman fired a revolver in the
Paris law courts, sweetheart killed by
a girl at Sidi bel Abbes; quarrel ter
minated by a revolver shot at Sevres;
similar affair at Raincy; horse dealer
shot in a train; man shot dead at
Nantes; husband riddled with bullets
by his wife ct Authenie on Valois;
debtor shot 5y his creditors. man
killed in a Paris hotel by his former
mistress; wife shot by her husband at
Toulouse: girl shot by a man at ROu-
baix- and so the sordid story goes on
TOmbs Are PIundered-
Week by week are also related the
depredatiOns Of the ghouls who are
said TO make a good livelihood by viO-
latinE and plunderinE tOmbs in the
EraTeyards Of Paris Since the middle
Of last December no fewer than so
vaults in the Pere Lachaise cemetery
have been broken into and robbed
valuable vases, silver candlesticks
statuettes Of saints and various other
articles having been taken Recently
the police made q haul Of several men
believed TO belong to a well organized
gang OF graveyard thieves2 but contin-
ued rObberies have shown that the
whole Of the gang has not yet been
brought TO book