DETECTIVE WHO BECAME AN “ APACHE.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3244, 14 June 1911, Page 9

DETECTIVE WHO BECAME AN “ APACHE.”

STORY OF WAR-ZE’S CAREER

Paris is always furnishing some curious story of crime with a touch of comedy U 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 and 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 and thieves. As a result of his cleverness he came to be popularly known as “Nick Carter,” a complimentary soubriquet borrowed from the pages' of juvenile fiction. This was shortened by his, admiring colleagues among the police to “Nick,” while the Apaches preferred to call him. “'Carter.” Early in his career he made an independent and •minute study of the ways and haunts of the criminal class. This accounted for much of his success as on official, but apparently it also accounts for the fact that, dismissed and disgraced, he is now being hunted as a criminal himseif. According to a report from Paris published by the “Pall Mall Gazette,” while getting to know the criminal classes Warze formed close acquaintances with his supposed victims. He made himself particularly attentive to a certain class of women, and 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 Apachesi—-an. extraordinary position when one thinks that he was equally eminent on “the other side.” Ultimately his name was mentioned in connection -with two burglaries on an extensive scale committed on jewellers’ premises. The police only laughed at the suggestion that their experienced colic argue had had a finger in 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-fame- was to be raided. Nick was chosen to spy out the place, and 1 fix the proper moment for the operation. When tlie police arrived in answer to his summons there was no sign of the quarry. The bad characters had flown, leaving as sole occupants of the cafe a few elderly tradesmen who were _ playing dominoes. It seems that in his role of chief of the Apaches, Carter had winked his eye and placed the fingers of one hand upon the palm of the other as signs to the night birds that the fowler was at work in their neighborhood. At last suspicions were aroused, and the double game has come to an end. Realising that he might be arrested at any moment, Warze sent in his resignation and disappeared, in the company of a woman of loose morals. The resignation was ignored. He was promptly dismissed from the police service, and a warrant issued for his arrest. Various crinies are alleged against 'him, from burglarly and the coining of false money to actual murder. [Since the above article was written it has been notified by cablegram from Paris tliat Warze, alias “Nick Carter,” has surrendered himself to the authorities.]