DETECTIVE WHO BECAME AN “APACHE.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1004, 13 June 1911, Page 4

DETECTIVE WHO BECAME AN “APACHE.”

STORY OF WARZH’S CAREER. London, April 21. Paris is always furnishing some curious story of crime with a touch of comedy in it. The latest concerns a detective inspector named Gasion Warze, who is alleged to have been carrying on a sort of Jekyll and Hyde existence as a hunter of Apaches aud regular participator in their crimes. For years after he joined the detective force Warze was noted as the most daring foe of the Paris hooligans aud thieves. As a result of his cleverness he came to be popularly known as “ Nick Carter,” a complimentary subriquel borrowed fr» m the pages of juvenile fiction. This was shortened by his admiring colleagues amoug the police to 11 Nick,” while the Apaches preferred to call him “Carter.” Early iu his career he made an independent aud minute study ol the ways and haunts of the criminal class. This accounted for much of his success as an official, but apparently it also accounts for the fact that, dismissed aud disgraced, he is uow being hunted as a criminal himself. According to a report from Paris, published by the Pall Mall Gazette, while getting to know the criminal clashes Warze formed close acquaintances with his supposed victims. He made himself pailicularly attentive to a certain class of women, aud his interest in them extended to their male friends. By reason of his superior energy and resource, he became a sort of chief of the Apaches—an extraordinary position when one thiuks that he was equally eminent ou ” the other side.” Ultimately his name was mentioned in connection with two burglaries ou an extensive scale committed on jewellers’ premises.

The police only laughed at the suggestion that their experienced colleague had had a fiuger iu the affair. What was more reasonable than that Nick the detective should be sent after Carter the Apache ? And what more natural than that Nick the detective should fail to find Carter the Apache? At a later time a cafe of ill-lame was to be raided. Nick was chosen to spy out the place, aud fix the proper moment for the operation. When the police arrived iu answer to his summons there was no sign of the quarry. The bad characters had flown, leaving as sole occupants of the, cafe a lew elderly tradesmen who were playing dominoes. It seems that in his role of chief of the Apaches, Carter had winked his eye and played the fingers of oue baud upon the palm of the other as signs to the night birds that the fowler was at work iu their neighbourhood. At last suspicious were aroused, aud the double game has come to an end. Realising that he might be arrested at any moment, Warze sent iu his resignation aud disappeared, in the company ol a woman of loose morals. The resignation was ignored. He was promptly dismissed from the police service, mid a warrant was issued for his arrest. Various crimes are alleged against him, from burglary aud the coining oi false money to actual murder.

(Since the above article was written, a cablegram from Paris says jthat Warze, alias “ Nick Carter,” has surrendered himself to the authorities.)