Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13

Apaches as hero and leader. Not
only they, but several women OF the
most degraded character. obeyed his
orders and stood in great awe of his
cruel nature and his reckless
by the double soubriquet Of la
Grande Marcelle, Queen of the
Liabeuf was shoemaker by trade.
and he fashioned himself the spiked
armor which he wore. ia Grande
Marcelle" is a ''machanician." &c.
cording to her police papers, though
in what line OF industry has not been
stated. She is twenty.three years
old, tall. with a savage countenance,
though not without certain kind Of
beauty. She may he regarded as the
type OF the female Apache. Since
the terrible combat OF the Rue Aubry-
le-Boucher she has sworn before wit
nesses ito ayenge Liabeuf.
"1'll have tho life Of a 'flic!"
slang for policemanj, she cried.
brandishing poignard, when she
learned Of his arrest. At that very
moment she had fresh knife wound,
almost completely traversing- her
right hand.
The fear OF La Grande Marcelle1
is said TO be widespread in the haunts
of Montmartre. She has significant
devices tattooed on her person, which
is covered, besidea, with scars
reminiscent OF the hundred and one
~melees in which she had taken part.
On her left wrist are two crossed
daggers, and on her left hand five
black points, the sign OF recognition
of the Apaches. Higher up on the
arm Is portrait Of her lover. LA
buckled Liabeuf's armor on for him
ebfore the fatal encounter.
"Casque dor" "Chifronette" and
"The Meuse of Montmartre" are
other queens of the Paris Apaches.
Chiffonette, who reigned In the
Belleville quarter, Is a tall, hand
some girl, who would be better look
Ing If she had not lost an eye. She
is tattooed like a Cannibal Islander,
and shows the scars of fifty wounds
received in fights with knife or re-
volver
A young Apache, who had de-
ceiyed her, She attacked In his sleep
and reduced him to such a condi-
ton that he had to gpend six months
In the hospital.
When he came out he asked Chit
fonette to marry him, saying that IL
she refused he would kill her. She
consented, and he made formal ar
rangements for the wedding. Two
days before the event she told him
she was foollng him.
He drew revolver and fired three
shots, one Of which entered her fore
head and made her eye hang out.
Calmly replacing the eye In its
socket, Chiffonette drew her knife
and plunged It again and again into
( her admirers body until he was
dead. For this she received year
in prison.
Two young Apaches called "Loulou"
and Beau Blond" were saunterins
one evening when they met Pope, a
female Apache, whom they accused
Of betrayipg Chiffonette. Loulou,
with a knife a foot long, and Beau
Blond, armed with ,yataghan,
rushed Mt her to carve her up for
her trenchery, but three detectives,
disguised as Apaches, who had been
watching them, arrested all three.
The outward signs of the Apache
are ordinarily a yicious\ appearance,
defiant air and hat or cap worn
over one ear.
The crimes Of the. Apaches and
anarchists became so numerous that
the Government Yves forced to- con-
duct a crusade against them until
their activities were nearly stopped.
Hence, at the outbreak Of the war,
many Of them were sitting around in
gloomy idleness, and this made ii
more easy 20 recruit regiment Of
them