DETECTIVE'S DOUBLE LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 324, 10 June 1911, Page 10

DETECTIVE'S DOUBLE LIFE.

INVESTIGATING HIS OWN BURGLARIES. Paris, April 16. _ A young man arrested the other day m connection with a robbery at a jeweller's denounced as his accomplice a detective inspector named Gaison Warze, who had made a name for himself in the police force by the timeliness of his information on the doing* of the criminals of the metropolis.

warrant has been issued against Warze, who has promptly disappeared. Investigation, however, has brought to light an astounding career. It is alleged that, led away by an apache girl, Warze, after making a name for himself in the detective force, became mixed up with a gang of burglars, by whom he was christened "Nick Carter," after the hero of the "penny dreadfuls" which form the staple literature of the apache. Although "Nick Carter" was able to furnish the police with many useful clues in order to divert suspicion from himself, he was also, according to the newspapers, in a position to carry out numerous notable burglaries on his own account. By and by the name of "Nick Carter became known to the police, without their suspecting the burglar's real identity. In fact, not long ago the detective Gaison Warze was ordered to investigate an important jewel robbery in the Galerie Vivienne, committed by the redoubtable "Nick Carter." Warze showed remarkable zeal in following up various clues, and appeared ?v e ? 'L C , agrined when he h ad to report that Nick Carter" had again escaped. Recently he was sent in disguise to a restaurant in Montmarte to spy on the gang prior to a police raid, when it was hoped that "Nick Carter" and his accomplices would be found. Warze carried out his mission by giving the band a secret signal of danger, and when the police arrived the nest was empty. Once more Warze lamented his bad luck.

Meanwhile the suspicions of the police were aroused, and Werze was dismissed just before he disappeared, although nothing definite could be brought against ;" m ; , The police are inclined to think that he may be connected with the disappearance of a girl well known in apache circles.