A DOUBLE LIFE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 91, 7 June 1911, Page 7

A DOUBLE LIFE.

FRENCH I) ISTECTi V E AN i) “APACHE.” 1. is a strange story indeed tliat hangs mi a recent cable staling t hat a inciuoor of t!io French detective. force i 1: u! boon denounced as a secret loader of the “Apaches.” Detective Vvarac war the iiiol of Paris. Ho had boon a good soldier, but ho was a hotter detect ivo. His iwklowst daring and unb'oiincled resource secured lor him the uputatiou of the smartest man in the force. The youth of Palis I nought of him as one might think ol Chci lock Holmes. Ho had been detadvd tor so many Ha filing mystoi ies, ami had always Known where to go ird whom to‘arrest. Meanwhile ho war achieving fame in another portion t!;o groat rilv. Ho excelled in the commission of ciimc as he excelled in die detection of it. In fact, the Hr. ■ ivMl of ttic poiico was not more distinguished f Inin the Mr. Hyde of i:l;o ‘‘Apachoc.” Naim ally, as time aii on the position increased in dif-,l,-nlty. It culminated when Dr. Jek\M was set to catch Mr. H\dc. There mui been two big burglaries commitP'd in Paris and Warxo was given Iho •sim Tl"‘se had been two of Iho srnr.ilost “coups” which he and his .imp it. ions ol file slums had over ;• amppAl, but they had been seen, •■■('hi* ilcsti iot ion almost tallies with v ii. . mll', . Waisaid M . llaimu'd, t!ic chief detective, as ho handed over 1 1 0 wan.iot, and Wai/.o smiled and : nnaii.od how odd it was. it was odddill when a searching investigation failed to reveal the burglars, and the ■ roat deterlive reported his failure. A colleague, however, was more snei • ful. tie captured one of the gang, a man tunned Ja.Ci'(iiin, who loudly de-roiuict'-l War/e as a spy and cornplcloty identilied him with v.lie muelii wanted “Apaclic.” The bird bad’ lay I th.ii; time I town ; “gone to reorganise j t.K pilicfe force of Monaco,” was the xiliiialioii which hi. Hainan! found 1 attached to the official resignation of Detective Wai’zc.