Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1910 — The "Apaches.” [ARTICLE]

The "Apaches.”

The name Apache was applied first to a tribe of the North American Indians owing their origin to the Athapascans. It is a tribal name that harks back far into the dim past of the red man. A good many years ago the police department of Paris found itself in daily conflict with certain semi-or-ganized bands of youthful vagabonds and ruffians who gave no end of trouble by their thieving depredations. They have their counterparts in large cities by way of the tough gangs of boys and young men who revel in endless warfare, with, law and order as represented by the police. These Parisian bands soon came to call themselves the “Apaches,” and from all accounts they are worthy of the name'. They belong to the underground wbrld of Paris, where every vice and crime is bred and nurtured.