APACHE VENDETTA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 7

APACHE VENDETTA.

A BLOODTHIRSTY FEUD. The members of a notorious band of Apaches in tne Belleville Quarter of Paris have lately been engaged upon the work of exterminating each other. Two of the tribe named Eugene Tessier and Jules Schnerb quarrelled, and the latter was seriously injured by a knife thrust in the lungs. _, Tessiar was sent to prison. Both sides had meanwhile started a vendetta. When the injured man was able to leav? the hospital he bought a revolver, and breaking into the house <rf Tessier's parents, sought to murder them. The police captured him, but as the Tessiers refused to prosecute, saying that it was a purely personal mutter vhich they would settle themselves, the ruffian was released. He next i.aempted to kill the eldest daughter of the family, but, missing her heart, the knife stuck in her a-m, but without inflicting a fatal wouiJ. The second son, Raymond Tessier, now set out in quest or Schnerb, but came cross instead Schnerb's redoubtable lieutenant, one Van Gaver, who stabbed him between the shoulders ■with a bootmaker's knife, leaving him for dead in the streets.. He was conveyed to the hospital. A few weeks ago the vendetta claimed another victim. Eugene Tessier had baen released from prison, so, arming himself with a knife, he sought out his enemies. Coming across Van Gaver, he plunged , his knife into his body, inflicting a wound which will probably prove fatal. The police have now put a stop to this work of bloodshed by arresting the principals and their adherents.