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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1914)
; - ; : : - The Omaha Sunday- Eee Magazine Page 1 Curious Photograph of a Squad from the Regiment of Paris Apaches (Gunmen) Detailed to Guard a Church I J -. -i V i 7 A Clever Plan That Has Turned Apaches and Anarchists Into the Most Daring and Resourceful Soldiers, While Paris . Has Been Relieved of Their Crimes Paris, Dm. B. THK Trench Gorernment hss " recruited an sntlrs regiment ot soldiers from the cut. throat and criminals of the worst sjnma of Farts. Some urjrie baa been expressed at tb absence during tbla time of war and clTlo disorganization of the darlnR crimes for which Pari has been notorious ' The explanation la out now. All the criminals are away righting with the army, and fighting brarely, too. They consist mainly of the class of Parisian desperadoes known sa "Apaches," and partly of anarchist. It waa neceosary to organize . tbem Into a regiment consisting exclusively of their own class, because ordinary respectable soldiers would bare objected to their company. As colonel Chey have a marquis of hlstorlo family, who fell into criminal ways through dissipation and .extrava gance. The problem of dealing with the numerous criminals of Paris became a serious one for the Government at the outbreak of the war. After due consideration the Government in structed the police to round up the chief criminals and aspects of mill tary age and give them the choice of serving In the army or going to prUon. All the criminals not o&ly volunteered eagurty to aerve, but of fered to assist in raising one. or more reglmonts among their frlenda. Psyehologlsta say that many crlml nala are men ot fine qualities, who have bfa forced to become enemies of society be-aus civilized life has not given thoun the opportunities for daring adventure aud physical activity that their Impulsive natures dwnanded. The experience of the Apache regiment seems to confirm tbla. They bave shown amazing daring, bravery, .endurance and resourceful ness. What is stlH more remarkable. they bave shown Tery good conduct as soldiers. Tbey have been obedient to discipline and have refrained from pillage and other acts forblddon to good soldiers. Pierre Lot), In bis articles tea commented on the excel lent conduct ot the Apaches under atfmn. When It comes to lying out In ihe rain-filled, shot-stormed trenches day and night without food, there are no soldiers who stand the ordeal ns cheerfully as the Apaches. It 1 their pride to endure the moot hor rible wounds with a Jest In Parisian "argot" i 1 Those who recall the exploits ef Bonnot and Carouy, the motor ban dits, of Llabeuf, the armored Apache and other recent Parisian criminals will realize that they would make terrible soldiers if they turned all their resources against the enemy. The motor bandits dodged the po lice under Are and flew from one end of the country to the other with a dexterity that would make thera ldea,l scouts in war. The motor bnndlts committed twenty-two murders in 1912 before the leaders were finally bunted down and killed by an army of soldiers and police. Tbey first excited atten tentlon when an automobile stopped , In the Rue Ordener, one of 'the busiest streets In Paris, at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. The men In U shot -down a bank messenger, took 100,000 francs In cash from him and poured a volley of bullets Into the crowd, klllng ons man and wounding several others. Then tbey Jumped Into their 'ma chine and disappeared like a streak. Next day the machine, whloh they had stolen, waa found abandoned at Dlt'ppe, 150 miles from Parts. The criminals were using a new machine. The police knew what It looked like and lay In wait for them at Alals, outside Paris. The bandits learned of the trap and returned to Parla. There tbey shot a policeman ,iiV A " .$,- v JW. vivv "f 1 I- vi .. .c, , , Th Apaches of Paris -A Painting by Jan Beraud. dead who tried to arrest them as they were mending a tire. Tbey then escaped fiom Paris In another di rection. Month after month they kept up their crimes, stealing a new car whenever they needed one. One morning at 8 o'clock six of them, armed with rifles and pistols, stopped 'a big car In- the historic Forest of flenart, near Paris, killed the chauf feur and aelzed the machine. -They aped through Paris, and at 10:30 were at Chantllly, twenty three miles northeast of Paris. There they entered the principal baakv seized $ SO.0O0 In gold and notes, and shot a porter ho Interfered with them. They fired a volley Into the crowd that gathered round the bank, wounded several, entered their car and escapetl-Bgaln. - Two of the bandits, Bbnnot, called "the demon chauffeur," and Dubois, his aide, were trapped In a plaster garage at Cholsy-le-Rol, near Paris. It was in a quarter known as "the Red Nest," because it. was a haunt of anarchists. A force of 2,000 men, Including police, engineers, artillerymen and soldiers, besieged the bandlta. The Food, Fingers and Flies-Watch Them! THERB are three principal ways in which disease germs are carried from person to person, and these waya may be easily remembered by three catch words Food, Fingers and File The most Important foods which carry dUeasa are those ahlch are eaten raw, since thorough cooking destroys dUeaae germs and most cooked fooda are only dangerous when they have been infected In the kitchen after cooking. Among raw foods, too, many, like oranges, are safe because they are peeled before eating. Of all foods the most dangerous are water and milk, because they are often polluted (by sewage in the case f water, by human contact In the case of milk), be cause they are drunk promptly without time for the disease germs to die out, and because, ususlly In the case of wster. and often In the case of milk, they are not cooked. The second wsy in which disease germa are com nicely spread is by means of contact between people themselves. Fingers, in the catch phrase, which all who value their health should try to bear in mind, stands not only for the fingers themselves but for all sorts of ways In whlci disease germs may be exchanged. In measles fad whooping cougb and scarlet., fever and diphtheria and tuberculosia and many other dis eases, the germs are present in the nose and throat and are spread from person to person by the fingers, which go too often to the mouth and nose, by drinking cups and spoons and other things which too often are used In common, and by the fine spray thrown out from the mouth In coughing and sneezing. In typhoid fever and diarrhea and similar diseases the germ are' found In the Intestinal discharges, and here, too, soiled fingers play an Important part In the transmission of the disease. The third common way In which disease germs are spread la by means of Insects. Flies are, perhaps, the most Important Insect germ carriers In moat States. They often pick up infected material oa their legs and bodies and carry it to food, and where there Is no good system of sewage disposal they may play a part In the spread of such diseases as typhoid fever. A certain kind of moequlto carries malaria, and this, too. Is Im portant In certain districts. In tropkal couutrlee a whole host of diseases Is carried by insects. . Copyrlett. llii. sutboritles were determined to Use theim, If possible, without loss of life to the attackers. The soldiers kept up a fire on the garage while a picked force of engineers mined It and blew It up. Dubois was Instantly killed. Bon no t, with one arm that bad been shattered In the duel In which he killed Detective Jouln, and with twelve other wounda in bis body, was found among the ruins peering out between two mattresses. He rushed at the soldiers, cursing them and firing away the last bullets of bis revolver. Within a few minutes of bis death, as he was be ing borne away to Paris in an auto mobile, be suddenly tried to -break away from bis captors and leap from the car. About a month later Octave Ur nler, said to be the chief of the ban dits, was besieged by a force of 2,000 meu In a villa at Nogent-aur-Marne. This time the police had In addition the assistance of dogs. Gamier and one companion fought on after the house had been dynamited. Five of the police were shot In the battle. After eight hours Garnier and -his companion were uncovered aud shot to death. Evidently, if any of these bandits could have given the same amount of trouble to a foreign enemy, they would have been of great value to France. The Apaches are a clasa who prey upon the pleasure-seekers and the women of bad character ot aPrls. i i - '-I. . ... - -; -k m- , ) i X ' f v - ft v , - -!, f : r- i : 'r- A -' ' n A '..,.. - f , . ... -i ... . .. I i " - t'l ' -- tit Terrible Armed Gauntlet Worn by the. "Apache" IJabcuf That Crippled the Policeman Who Tried to Arrest Him. - hands were bleeding from deep wounds. The Apache bad broad - bands of heavy leather, thickly set with sharp pointed spikes, bound about both his nrms, above and beldw the elbows. He was provided also with a long shoemaker's knife and a . revolver. Taking refuge In the' dark and cramped entry of the lodging house, Llabeuf turned upon the police who J hMsasaL The "Mouse of Montmartre," the Notorious "Queen, of the " Paris Apaches." wsy, bave shown themselves - as dangerous in fighting as the aien. One of the most desperate of the Parts Apaches wss Llabeuf, for whoso benefit the guillotine, which bad al- mnttt fiilln IntA rilmiflA - mA nut fn rr. m . i , . i i m iuny uni revriTvu iaeir name iron operation again. ' ticuiu siurj wilier uiua Jtriuur Iupln, who had been a reader ot Fenlmore Cooper's works. They adopted it themselves with pride. The Apaches hare pl!"d a con siderable part in the lite of Paris for several years, liooiiw have been written about' them, and pictures about their life and exploits have been exhibited In the Sa'ons. There Is an Interesting painting by Jean Beraud called "The Apachea ot Paris." It shows a young Apache, bis female companion and a man seated at a table In one of the cafes of Montmartre. The Apache is lean ing over and whlsperlug to the other man. The woman Is evidently the subject of their secret conversation, snd the expression of ber face suggests that ehe does not l!ke the situation. Many of the female Apaches, by the by the SUr Company. Griit Britain Rluhts Reterve pursued him end plied bis weapons with frautlo rapidity. ' Policeman Defray ' was stabbed eight times In the breast and was struck by two bullets, one entering the bret andone the stomach. .An other aeent vu stAbhe.1 In th nrk Llabeuf made his 'headquarters in , and received two . bullets In the auuomen, wnne a mini waa less seri ously wounded. The fourth agent thrust bis sabre into I.labeuf's breast, and not until this was done could he be subdued. ( A furious erowd ef people threat ened to lynch the Apache, and the 'policemen .who bad Just been de fending their own lives against him, now with tbe aid of reinforcements from tbe station, protected him. Defray died In a 'hospital before Liornlnc. Ltabeut's wound waa not dangerous, and after a tew days be waa discharged from the Hotel Dleu and plai'ed in a prison cell. When he learned that the policeman whom be had 'wounded had died be ex claimed: "What! Only one? I thought I bad done for four ot thnra. I made a poor Job of HI" Llabeuf was lookel upon by the the badly famed quarter of Saint MerrL After being sent to prison for a second time for theft he swore vengeance on the policemen wtio last arreBted him. . One afternoon he went to a little wine shop . in the Rue Aubry le Boucher, and there sat drinking for an hour or two with companions of bis tribe, lie boasted loudly ot his purpose of slaying his enemies in the police. These words were carried to the nearest police station, and four men were posted to watch for' bis lt from the wine shop. Whei at last he came forth two ot them who were not In uniform at tempted to seize Mm as he was pausing In front of a "hotel gurnV or lodging house. The moment their hands clothed upon bis arms they spiang back with cries of pain. Their Apacbes as a hero and leader. Not ' only they, but several women of the most degraded character, obeyed bis orders and stood In great awe of his cruel nature and bis reckless audacity. One of the women went by the double soubriquet of "La ( Grande Marcel le, Queen of . the ' Apaches." Llabeuf was a shoemaker by trade, and he fashioned himself the spiked armor which he wore. "La Grande Marcelle" Is a. "mechanician," ac 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 a certain kind of beauty. She may be regarded as the type of the female Apache. Since the terrible dbmbat of the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher she has sworn before wit nesses to avenge JLiabeuf. "I'll bave the life of a 'flic!'" vslang for policeman), ehe cried, brandishing a polgnard, when she learned of his arrest. At that very moment she bad a fresh knife wound, almost completely traversing her right hand. ;The fear of "La Grande Marcelle" Is said to be widespread In the haunts of Montmartre. She has significant devices tattooed on her person, which Is covered, besides, 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 ber left hand five black points, the sign of recognition of the Apaches. Higher up on the - arm Is a portrait of her lover. "La Grande Marcelle" Is said to have buckled Llabeufs armor on for him ebfore the fatal encounter. "Casque d'Or." "Chiffonette" and "The Meuse of Montmartre" are other queena of the Paris vApachea; Chiffonette, who relgnedl in the Belleville quarter. Is a tall, hand some girl, who would be better look ing if she bad not lost an eye. She is tattooed like a Cannibal Islander, and shows the scars of fifty wounds received in tights with knife or re volver. A young Apnche. who had de ceived her, she attacked in bis sleep and reduced him to such a condi tion that he had to spend six months in the hospital. - When he came out be asked Chif fonette to marry him, saying that 4f she refused be would kill her. She consented, and he made formal ar rangements for the wedding. Two days before the event she told him she was fooling him. Ha drew a revolver and fired three shots, one of which entered her fore head -and made ber eye bang out Calmly replacing the eye In Its socket, Chiffonette drew her knife and plunged It again and again Into her admirer's body until he was dead. For this she received a year In prison. Two young Apaches called "Loulou'' and "Heau Blond" were sauntering along the Boulevard de Belleville one evening when they met Pepe, a female Apache, whom tbey 'accused of betraying Chiffonette. Loulou, with a knife a foot long, and Bean Blond, armed with a yataghan, rushed at her to carve ber up for her treachery, but three detectives, disguised as Apachea, who bad been watching them, arrested all three. The outward signs of the Apache are ordinarily a vicious appearance, a defiant air and a bat or cap worn over one ear. The crimes of the Apachea and anarchists became so numerous that the Government waa forced to con duct a crusade against- them until their activities were nearly stopped. Hence, st the outbreak of the war, many of them were sitting around In, . gloomy Idleness, and this made le more easy to recruit a regiment of them