New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-10
Woman Tells Swami u
French Gunman IL
Her Astray
Five Are Arrested
Through Her Sto,,,
Foreigners, Lured to W.,
55th Street House,
Robbed, She Say.

New York is harboring COLIN, !.
apaches, eNpatriated from the md.
world Of Paris, where, in 1910 and ,o,s
they held the populace almost in . ~.
of siege. The discovery was made :.
terday by Assistant District Atto,,..
James f. Smith in his campa;sn :.
clean up Manhattan.
The apache of New York is mt ,,,.
the bandit of his Partisan nro.otr..
according to the prosecutor. Herr r.
is compelled to aaop. The so;..
methods of New York runman. a...,
per-" stick-up man and the. tyne a.,
lives by means of women of the und.,
world. Some of them. Mr.. Smith a.,
are actually employed part Of the ~. \.
as walters in some reputable hotel, A.,
restaurants.
Meet on the West Side
At night they gather in clauDs.
manner in a certain restaurant m ..
West Side not Ear beyond Sixth Az.
nue., where they comport themselves !,
fashion similar to the apaches uha
used to frequent the Cabaret din I.n;u
Agile in the dread days of Paris in laiO
Discovery of this band of ex.Fren,b
gunner came through a young woman
Belgian. She, with nearly a HUNDRED
women, was caught in the net which
Smith set for the "sun dodgers" Of tks
Tenderloin cafes last Sunday morning
For two days the prosecutor had been
trying to get her history. YESTERDAY
she told everything, including her story
of how she was led into life of white
slavery by an apache who became &C.
qualnted with her while she was work.
ing as waitress in a hotel at Nara.
! gansett Pier.
She said this man lured her to New
York and got her a position in Fifth
Avenue hotel where he was employed
and then established a aft for her in
West Fifty-first Street. In sher.
time. she said. he had induced her to
frequent an illegal resort in West lleth
Street. near Morningside Avenue. and
another place in West Ninety sixth
Street, near Amsterdam Avenue. Then
she said, the apache at the point Of a
gun forced her to live in a pretentiou;
house at 372 West Fifty-fifth Stree.
between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
Police Raid House
She furnished enough informaticn
about this place yesterday morning to
Mr.. Smith to enable that official to g.
out yesterday afternoon at O'Clock
and raid the place. The occupants re.
fused admission and Detective Finsn
of Captain McKenna's staff. with De.
tcctives Shea. Kerwin, Hickson and
Chrystie, of Inspector Costigan's stat.
forced open the parlor window and
went in head first.
When the officers came out they bod
with them Charles Ceriano and Marie
Ceriano, his wife: Marcello Degrandes;
Leon Baroutl,. of 90 Allen Street. who
said he was a Serbian, and Margaret
Rogers, who said she was one Of the
inmates Of the place. Ceriano says h.
is an Italian.
The prisoners were taken TO the Dis
trict Attorneys Office and placed ~, 8
room adjoining one in which the III,
former" was sitting. She was inclined
TO be hysterical and repeatedly SAID
that she feared for her life if it be-
came known that she had given ne
apache up. Opening the intervenlh.
door trife. NJ. Smith badc the gli
look at Ceriano and his vile. 81;
identified them and Deerandes so'
Barouth as the persons to whom :i'
in the Fifty-ffth Street resort. liner
were locked UP in the West For;s'
seventh Street police station last nisaN
Mr.. Smith said he was preparing y
arraign them in the West Side coul,
So-day, and intimated that the cha'ss
would be white slavery
Tells of Robbcries
All apaches carry guns, Mr.. Sml'h
"informer" says. There are many
them, and they don't hesitate to w
them in the way in which they nav
it profitable to do SO. And, ACCORDING
to her, that way consists OF larlas
well-to-do foreigners TO the "sA
Fifty-tifth Street house and. haSln.
compromised them, rob them
the point Of the gun. They take ~
chances. the girl said, until they o.
certain that the visitor IS wealthy an'
can i'll afford to risk publicity. y.
The informer told lir. Smith ina. Wv
apache who brough. her from No. Me-
ragansett Pier to New York comps.r.
her to walk the streets at night cs's;
ing his revolver while he walked !.
side her. She said he did this IN DIV
to escape detectives who. ne ies. .ts
might stop him and search nam ~. u. .s
veanon If +fo ,ro+hei.iny Mace OF W.
apachcs was his destination ne WIZ ~.
signal her to pass the gun TO MN nm, mr.
side the place, and, Bidding her f S.s.,,
at once to the West Fifty-httn os, .ni
house, he would disappear ins'oe I'll
not return until the night was
spent. ,,,
"What did the apache intend 70 y
the gun for?" asked Mr.. Smith. The
"The apache's girl is his slave a.r,r
apache never talks and his siase he
asks questions; snc obeys, WIS
girls reply .... n.
"These rats worked as waters, ~
cause in that way they were aoie '"
come better s;eerers Tor their re'S rrrs
said Mr.. Smith. This girl mas sssnr
US much information about 'n M, d
outs of the apache gangs. ~: a' cour
them seem to have come TO 'H, nS;ormed
try before the war. as am my. ny ftr
that there was little oppoF'unm" mob
them to get out of France ai'es De
ilization. In short time we sn s.ttrs
III position to raid their nsi ee.
places. and more raids on resorts
BY them will follow"
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