POLICEMAN AS A BURGLAR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10778, 29 May 1911, Page 6

POLICEMAN AS A BURGLAR.

HOW HE WAS ORDERED TO ARREST HIMSELF. j (London Express' Paris Correspondent.)] It is proverbial that man in his timej plays many parts. Police Inspector! Warze played only two, but they were; ; curiously diff.erefit* ones. Warze doubled j the parts of criminal and detective with. I ; stick;*sutfcete''tEait; he was actually given; the warrant for his own arrest and sent;; to look, for. himself in the rabbit rens ; '6f .eriminal • Paris, which are to hei found in the network of streets round.; the Faubourg.Mqntmar'Dre. •] ". Warze~ who drew good money as a i ..police inspector,, .made even more by! ■ teurglary-.-'■'■ -But he'had not always.been; a criminal. Love was his ruin. Hei had befety;a,;,policeman for some years,; ' aricl was "considered one of the best men j . of. his,.brigade. He belonged to the, ' ; }a'mou's "Brigade Mobile," which is com-' manded by Mm. Hamard and Valle,i [ his obfefs. confided the most difficult; cases to"liirif'm preference to all their: OUher men. Warze was curiously daring. .. . •-'• He would-venture with impunity into the most dangerous haunts of the most ] rdangercsus "Apaches" .everywhere in Paris, and was responsible for.some of the most sensational arrests of the last few years. ■.. It is only now, when he is wanted by j ...Iris-■.'former comrades jon charges of Burglary and coining, and is under suspicion of a more serious crime, that M. Hamard has found out that Warze was no other than the well-known crminal whose nickname of , "Nick Carter" had become a terror, that' Warze-used his position in the police force to cause the arrest of those "Apaches" who were i ■hostile to the banc}-of which he was-the chief, and that he had* warned and • caused.to escape from the police traps at least as many badly-wanted criminals as he had himself-arrested.. ' Even now M. Hariiai-d is riot sure how long, ago "Nick. Carter's" criminal ! .career began. He, however, that it began about six months ago. He . had been married some.years, then, and' 1 was the father of a family. But the homo was unhappy, for Warze, who until Uwo vears before had heen an excellent husband and father,, had fallen m love, with another woman, and began ill-treating his wife. The real name of the woman is not kiTOwai. :. Her ii«:k- ---• ivairre is the strange, one of '-White '5 Lilac." :'■.-■■'■'. .:.:■ ~.i-' ""While Lilac" was'the-Helen of this Paris of crime. Like Helen of Troy, she had golden hair. Like Helen, she made throng men's hearts beat with pasisiou. and caused them-to ,fight to win ' 3icr .smile.'. W T arze fought lost, and then by guile defeated" Helen's lover, who was no other than Louis Henrich —"Bi" Louis," he was called. He was the rirffinn who murdered Police Inspector Monlis on the Boulevard de Clichy some time ago, and it is now suggested that Warze' instigated this meaningless murder for the express purpose of arresting Henrich, whom he had fought and failed to kill. • . Before the murder Warze and Heni rich had coined two-franc (Is 8d) pieces, and issued them in company and had committed many other crimes. Among them was a clever burglary, m which Warze bad a leading share; as lately as the first of last month. With two other men who escaped at the" same time as. he did, Warze broke into a house in the Rue. Vivienne. climbed up on 'the roof, and succeeded in letting himself and his comrades down into a jeweller s shop on the second floor of the bouse next door. „ ~ There he stole 6y silver purses worth £916 and £325 worth of platinum. He left behind Jiim, though, £2500 of precious stones. The day after the burglary (April 2nd) M. Hamard instructed three inspectors, of whom W 7 arze was one, to find the three men who. had broken into the jeweller's shop and got away. They had been seen by two policemen, and their names and descriptions were given in the warrants. As M. Hamard handed Warze the warrant for the arrest of "Nick Carter," he laughed, and said, "The description almost tallies with yourself, Warze,'? and Warze laughed, and. said how. odd it was. It was not so odd, and naturally enough Warze failed to arrest "Nick Carter." But one of the cfther inspectors captured the second of the band, a man named Jacquin, and-Jac-quin betrayed Warze's identity with the much-wanted "Nick." But "Nick Carter" had disappeared. He had the,impudence to send in his! formal 1 resignation before he decamped, saying that he was going to reorganise the Monaco police force. M. Hamard made inquiries in Monaco. He learned flint'Warze had lied, and a second warrant was issued for his arrest, in his .own name this time. Two "days later another charge was brought against him. On March 20'fcli a. woman, "named Berthe Roubin was murdered near the markets. She : had been murdered in the streets, and was not robbd. Vengeance had evidently been the motive of the crime. The police found that Berfche had been a. freihd of "White Lilacs,", and that she had made trouble, between "White Lilac" and Warze. Evidence was given, too, by a woman who had seen the murder, frlpni her window. Her description of the murdered, who had stepped up to Berthe Ro'ubin and had cu'fc her throat from ear to ear, was the description;, pf; Waj^e-I police inspector Warze had, as I have'said, many successes. But in the Ijght of these disclosures many, peculiarities, of his.,assumed another as- : pect.[. %t was-remembered -that in many cases, after': telling his chiefs of the whereabouts of notable criminals this model detective failed to effect a. capture,. ~., No French detective is ever sent to Jjiakfea criminal alone. They go in couples,-? or by threes or fours. The nreu who had been told off to accompany Warze on these raids on criminal haunts,remembered when it was too late that he bad always insisted on going in first and alone. They remembered, too, that some of Itho-men they wanted always managed to disappear and evade capture, and that those who were,,taken werg.,always loud, iiii'their outbursts 6f.-rage-against Warze. Then several police remembered thalt Warze had-been seen in "the company of friend, Berthe Roubin. Jacquin and the other burglar stated tbat. the two had -words about "Nick," arid that one : day boUh- wbnfen; disappeared. /'White Lilac" has never • beea,u,.found. .... Berthe .Rqubiii was; fhxaid :.;djring -pri/the pavement of the RiVe Quiricampdix. Some days later Warze -and "White Lilac"?;we're seen together in Brussels. There, -are now .warrants, out for,, them both.' - '' ipld' .while. xhe-p£ljSe.",are hunting for "ParisV": Mme. Warze and, her'tjvtf cMdreri have been slaving . ; j^^y. i .an'A;'.§p.ul-.ijogether in hus- ; band "ari^,father's ; absence, and found out only by reading to-day's newspapers that;Warze and. the famous criminal,. "Nick. Carter," were one and the same