A FRENCH APACHE.

Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 8

A FRENCH APACHE.

The Parisian police arrested a dangerous bandit who for some time past has been committing numerous highway robberies in the Bois de Boulogne. Disguised sometimes as a tramp, sometimes ns a welldressed tourist or sportsman, and at others as a priest, the prisoner, a young man, twenty-one years of age, named George Harambourg, would waylay promenaders in the alloys of the wood toward nightfall and assault and rob them, escaping with greak-agility into the brushwood if interrupted by keepers or other passers-bv. Ho was at’ length traced to a pretty little villa which he occupied at Asnieres. and was arrested in bed after a desperate straggle. He had to be bound hand and foot before he could bo conveyed to the lock-up. The man was armed with a revolver and a knife. In the well-furnished villa which he shared with his mistress, whom he terrorised and employed as a decoy, were found a complete burglar’s outfit, including numerous disguises, wigs, and a collection of valuables, tho proceeds of the robberies. Tho prisoner has been identified as a deserter who has already served seven terms of imprisonment.