In Paris, at the beginning of the 1900s, the Apaches embodied a figure of the outlaw from the suburbs. As portrayed in the press, their gangs snuck into the French capital as a threat to the safety of “good citizens.” Combining historical and visual anthropology, this essay goes back to the source of the Apache chronicles. It shows how the Other and his or her dangerousness could be imagined, as much through journalistic or song-based accounts as through graphic representations (engravings and drawings). The intersection of these views allows us to see how a whole stereotype of the “lawless thug” has been put at the service of a process of criminalization. Beyond the groups that it denounces, this process reveals the fears that bourgeois society entertained with regard to the classes that it considered as “dangerous”; above all because they escaped its control, both social and moral.