Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-05-21

spot. She was mute, helpless. Better cap
ture by the police than the relentless JUS
tice Of the gang.
Hands up! Police! This was what hap.
pened next. The queen saw red and she
fred five times and was taken prisoner
along with most of the gang. But Degory
escaped. He left Paris and he took Job
at his old trade as mechanic in Rouen,
War came and Degory left with marching
men,
Eventually Yyette was released. Never
in all her career of desperate raiding were
they able to nail her with conviction. and
you can't Jail woman for evil influence.
The Judge in the police court was think.
ing all this over and he began ia under.
stand. 1t was the same story as that of
the cobbler and that of the modern bandit
who had come to the police court. Thew
were all going forward, progressing. be.
cause this is day of progress-whether
1t is to something better or worse.
Yyette had gone her way because of the
weakness that was actually goodness and
because the criminal side of her was moth.
ing more than keen mind and an un.
curbed love of excitement.
The bandit had gone another way. h.
cause he was born criminal with No such
flaw as a heart. But he had progressed
all the same. He was no desperate, killing
Tor the fun of it, but an efficient business
man VINO knew his trade and had every
device that modern science can invent n
make his ventures effective. He takes bis
chance not for few francs but for a ,on,
thousand or million.
Modern Bandit Game
Matter of Fact Bushes,
The modern desperate business is moth
ing like the old. The BLACK Band" that
ls working in Paris has no resemblance IN
the Apaches OF other days. There are less
spectacular crimes and less spectacular
trials than existed in the time of N.
Apache courts, when the desperado wa.
dealt with summarily by the memhar. :.
hts own clan.
Pernaps that is why the queens are NOT
tne same type-they don't find enough Of
tne romantic and picturesque in modern
crime. 1t Is too much like any other kind
OIL work. But queens of sort are az
essential as ever. They are the link with
the man higher up, the unknown manager
the rich hacker, who must never ba be.
trayed. lie puts up the money, gives every
ald ana deals only with the queen. because
ne counts ON the stubborn, faithful streak
IN women. The men of the Apache band
do not know him! He is shrewd enouch
to realize that woman has that one veal.
ness her heart, and he finds a plain faced
girl wnen he can for the queen business.
nothing Of Yvette's type.
The men who belong to the band ara a,
dinerent from the old type as the queen.
IN boulevard cafe you will sometimes
see Two perfect gentlemen waiting for two
others. Their heads are close together
pending over little tissue paper packet,
that disappear the moment any one an.
proaches. The second two are ieweIrv
"liquidators" on the outside.
~ is big business day. jewelers. estab-
hsned IN South America, especially In
Argentina, receive regular consignmsnfs.
On the Italian frontier established agent.
are known 10 have recently passed 10000
francs worth across A capture IN Mar
settles gathered In FIVE business men. An
operation In Brussels closed a so-called
commission house.
But the man higher up still rests in thu
shadow, because no Apache man knows
him. 1t is new triumph Of feminism
that the Apache queen is always DISCLOSED
as in charge of the higher management.
The men do not "obey" her as they did
fVette, but they trust her as a business
woman and as woman as thew Womb
not trust each other.
The membership of her band chanres
weekly. After success and the division II
profits each goes his way and the oueen
assemblies others. She goes among trades
men, adjusters, electricians. modern mar
looking for. modern, straight business.
They would laugh at the idea Of "robber
band" That's for the movies-and the
past--but they listen when the uueen
says:
Here is proposition. My hacker will
stand for it." !.
Yvette belonged to the past Now she il
married, gone on into the present. lust
as all the old Apaches are doing by one
road or another