FRENCH APACHE FEUD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 7

FRENCH APACHE FEUD.

SUSPECTED POLICE SPY STABBED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrijhl Paris, March 17. Apaches at Belleville condemned to death a girl named Nini, called the "Black Lioness/' - as a police spy, and delegated her rival, Rose Candide, aged sixteen, to carry out the sentence with the aid of her lover. - The apaches wrote to/Nini telling lier of her fate, and signed the letter.' with a" sketch of a bloodstained knife. . Eose Candide, accompanied by her escort, both being tattooed with circles Tinder the left eyes, stabbed Nini in tho street. ■The police have arrested Candide and several of the gang. ■ . • ORGANISED CEIME IN FEANCE.

Organised Crime- has lately , attained astonishing; proportions in .France.' In an article on the recent trial of the gang of ; French motor bandits, - the London "Times" stated that it was at the offices o£ the "Anarchic" 'at Romainville that the various members of this criminal association first became acquainted with each other. The : moving spirits of this Anarchist paper, were not content with preaching _ war upon society; they converted their editorial office into a refuge for criminals' and provided stolen passes to enable them to evade, the attentions of the police. For a time" the. band: con-: fined itself to robbing a few'couutry post offices, but without any great profit. It was Garnier. who first perceived the value of the motor-car as tui aid to crimo upon a large scale,' and he lopked about for a motor-car driver, .'trio would enable them,' as Garnier expressed the_ matter, "to make the cry of their social revolt louder. This man was found in: Bonnot, who rapidly becaniu tho leader- of the ■ gang. . It 'was after his enlistment .that the operations of these enterprising "Anarchists" entered upon their tragic phase. . Acting upon a carefully arranged plah of campaign, they stole!a large quantity ot firearms from gunsmiths' shops, and then they' appropriated' motor-cars and set out on the high roads of the country and even in the l heart of Paris, upon-an extraordinary., career of. highway robbery in which the mbtor-car threw into' the shade the exploits of. Black Be.ss upo7i the Great North-Road.: The series . of crimes reached, its .height after the theft of a motor-car stolen on December 13, t!)ll, at Boulogne-sur-Seine. A week later a bank messenger was shot bv: a number men ivlio had, after robbing him, driven away .'in a waiting automobile.' Two gunsmiths' shops," one in - the Hue. Lafayette, and ..the , other- in , the Boulevard Haussman," were pillaged in quick succession. Then three more motor-cars fell into tho hands of the gang, and on February 27 a policeman who stepped upon the splashboard, of a motorcar which had broken the traffic regulations in tho Place du Havre, close to the Saint La zare railway station, fell back riddled with bullets. .Next night. a further outrage and an attempt at murder was reported from' Pontojse. On March 25, 1912, after shooting the driver and taking possession, of a motor-car at Montgeron, in the Forest of Senart, the gang drove to Cliantilly, -/where, entering tho offices of the Societe'Generate, they killed the cashier and his clerk and escaped with the contents of the .safe, firing upon those who attempted to follow thorn. Abandoning their motor-car at Asnieres, the band scattered. The police, how.ever, got on to the track of Bonnot, and. in attempting to arrest him, Jouin, Chief Inspector of the Paris Police, was killed and'another inspector wounded. Bonnot, though himself wounded in that encounter, escaped through a window, and next day his friends stole a motor-car to carry him to Paris. Three days later came the siege at Choisy-le-Roi, in which Bonnot 'and Dubois were: killed and. two policemen were wounded, and on May 14 Garnier and Voleet were shot after another siege at Nogent-sur-Marne; in which four of the police were wounded.j