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FIUDA.Y, PEDnUAUY 4, 1899.
FRIDAY, PEOnUAUY i, 1898.
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WHERE CRIME IS
THOUGHT CLEVER
Amnilot Lawlessness IntlieOoy CopllO
of France.
MURDER A PARISIAN PASTIA1E
A Comparison ot I'tuii Willi Chicago
l'rovokod by n 1'nrlsnii 1'dltor's
Joor at tlio Windy CltvAstonlsh-
ilng Disregard of Life nml Property.
fVhorc Hplgrnms Win Acquittal.
Paris Letter In the Sun.
To any one with a bent toward the
.law thoro could he no mora Interesting
leld for study than the codes under
kepubllcan France. The peculiarities
yen begin with tho coiiHtltutlon. They
fro not hoary laws, full of tho nnoma-
'lles nnd Inconsistencies of Ions de
scent, like illume of England, for In
stance, but "brand-now laws mado for
a progressive and up-to-date country
.which calls Itself the "soul of the unl-
g" and tho "greatest olvlllzer tho
fmlil has even seen."
ACho laws themselves may be of In-
It crest only to legal minds; It Is their
working which affords to the ordinary
Anglo-Saxon Intelligence one of tho
most startling exhibitions of justice, or
attempts at justice, this century has
witnessed among an Intelligent people.
In Franco the average person pays
scant attention to these matters; he
shrugs hla shoulders; he Is not In
volved; doubtless things will be
straightened out some time, If they are
not right now. He prefers to believe
that they aie right now, because, for
one thing, that belief Is less trouble
some than another might be. The
thinkers of France, however, are more
concerned, as the voluminous litera
ture on th subject of criminology
proves.
As regards all French laws, but par
ticularly tho criminal law. It Is per
haps only Just to pay that the country
5 In a transition state. Probably the
Ithors of tho penal code and Its sup-
lements are really sincere In their
efforts to learn, through experience,
exactly what s best, not only In tho
punishment of crime, but In Its preven
tion. At the same time It would seem,
perhaps to almost any one but a Latin,
that they have puuthe country to seri
ous risk of danger at the hands of the
criminal classes while gaining this ex
perience. Speaking broadly, under tho
present codo and the law pasced In
1891, commonly known as the Hcranger
law, a Frenchman may rob and mur
der almost at will. If the Jury does
i not look out for his welfare, he has any
number of tender laws of mercy at his
.disposal; falling all else, tho president
.of tho republlo Is there with his par-
jouing or commuting power.
NO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
There is in France a very strong sen
timent against capital punishment. Tho
udvocates of Its abolition say that
criminals are not deterred by the fear
of death. They point to the fact that
It has been abolished In Italy, in Por
tugal, and In most of the cantons of
Switzerland. Their constant agitation
of tho question has resulted in Its prac
tical abolishment In France also, as
there has not been an execution, asidu
from military executions, since that of
Emilo Henry, tho Anarchist bomb
thrower, In 1834. In tho three years
since then there have been nearly six
hundred murders, but all the culprits
have escaped tho death penalty. In
tho army, on the other hand, and In
Algeria, there have been many execu
tions. The military executions were,
without exception, those of soldiers
sentenced to death for striking nn oin
cer. Six hundred murders, without one
sentence to death, will doubtless strike
most people, out of France, as Incred
ible. It may be explained that some
of the murderers were really convicted
and sentenced, but that tho president
intervened. A case of this kind is up-
the Paris court records for this
,onth. A man murdered his wifo
under circumstances inconceivably
brutal, because he had seen her speak
to another man on tho street. "When
she got home ho tortured her for three
hours, then was another two hours kill
ing her. He broke every bone In her
body, as well as her skull, and when
she was found It was impossible to tell
that she had once been human. Even
a French Jury was revolted. But the
president said that tho murderer was
clearly entitled to clemency, because
be had been moved by jealousy. The
newspapers applauded tho president.
SARCASM FOU YANKEES.
This case Is cited not because It Is
Inherently remarkable in the way of
French murders, but because tho
French say that capital punishment Is
a brutality worthy only of barbarous
peoples; that its infliction is without
tho pale of civilization. Notwithstand
ing the records of their revolutions and
of their commune they set themselves
Vp as being a hyper-humano people
..umaner than any nation the world has
ever seen. Lynching- in America are
stock subjects for the Paris newspa
pers. One paper refers to us habitual
ly, when discussing these matters, as
"the hog-Btlcklng and garrotlng Yan
kees." Another occupies much space
with boxing nnd prize fighting In Eng
land and America, usually defining
such sports as "revolting beyond ex
pression to, any nationality even half
civilized," A few days ago another
paper . lis off;
"The pi:tlco of electrocution (sic)
In America, which is the ofllclal way
of carrying out the death sentence
throughout the states, is one that can
not be too severely reprimanded. It Is
only to such a people as tho gross, sor
did, unfeeling Yankoes, who have not
yet had the benefits of even minor cul
ture, that such a barbarity can seem
other than tho height of brutality."
Finally, tho six-days' bicycle race at
Madison Square Garden was the signal
for a concerted attack against America
and Americans such as probably no
nation has ever been subjected to at
the hands of another, unless it bo the
Germans, attacked by tho samo great
"civilizing force," Putting out of con
sideration the chagrin of the French
at finding their own riders beaten in
the race, the exhibition of bile was not
po childish as It was disgusting, for
at least two of the Paris papers In their
revlllngs made use of epithets regard
ing Americans which, in common de
cency as well as to avoid a descent by
the police, they were obliged to sig
nify by a letter and a dash.
PItETEND TO HE BETTEK.
These instances Indicate the fact re
marked, that the French really pre
tend tp be a little better than other
nations, and that they hold themselves
to have, had all the original brutality
of the human animal refined out of
them. Largely they regard their crimi
nals as artistic, even refined, criminals
not refined In cruelty, an they really
are, but of a wholly different clay
from the common criminal of other
lands. If you tell a Frenchman that
his laws arc breeding a race of crimi
nals he will not believe you; he thinks
that you, a barbarian because a for
eigner, know nothing about it. If you
cite his own authorities, Count d'.Haus
Honvlllp, M. d'Ollvccrona, M. Dufaure,
or M, I.evellle, lin smiles Incredulously
and still denies. If you compnro
France with other countries, ho pooh
poohs. In a word, ho believes Franco
to bo not only the greatest of all coun
tries, but the most virtuous. He 'ex
cepts Paris, perhaps, with an Indulgent
wink, because he likes to believe, and
aliow all likes foreigners to believe,
thnt Purls Is "wicked."
11 might perhaps be worth while to
emphasize this. A few days ago a
Paris newspaper gave nn account of
the recent doings of highwaymen In
Chicago. The report, nlthough coming
through an English channel, was ap
parently not exaggerated. H recount
ed a number of detulls, then summar
ized; for imp week there was a totnl
of forty "hold ups," besides n number
of other aggressions. It was a greut
chance for commentary by the Paris
paper. It squared Its elbows and sailed
In with a scathing rebuke of Chicago
lawlessnmi: attacked the police, us n
band of worthless tramps; attacked
the city government; attacked the city;
finally, as was to be expected, saved
Its bust whacks for America and Amer
icans. It was n severe nrralgnment,
and the editor doubtless thought It was
a scorcher. The most interesting thing
about It to alien eyes was the inevitable
comparison, for which the concluding
paragraph had been saved:
"Thus we see life In an American
city of the fllst class." uld the virtu
ous Fit nchman. "Our friends across
the water call themselves civilized.
Bravo Chicago! We have heard of the
great police systems of America; we
have heard of the great fire companies;
we have heard of so many great things
from that land of groat things that It
would be Impossible to name them all.
We have also heard of great balloons,
nnd we cannot conceive why they
should be manufactured out of that
great land. We have, finally, heard
of Paris. We wonder whnt Chicago
would think of Paris' We wonder
what Chicago would think of the great
est city In the world nnd tho admirable
way In which uffalrs are conducted
here:"
BKAM AND MOTE.
If that Paris editor had looked over
the issue of his own paper In which
his lemnrks were printed he would
have found omo paiagiaphs by which
he might have formed another compar
ison between Palis and Chicago. If
he had looked through the files for a
week. In order to make things equal as
regards time with tho record of Chi
cago, he would have found more para
graphs for comparison than he would
have known what to do with; and he
might have kept on looking back at
the records for a year, or rive years,
without being embarrassed for mater
ial in due proportion. But perhaps
that one day's record in nowise nn ex
traordinary day would have been suf
ficient to set up ngainst Chicago's one
seventh of forty "hold-ups" nnd minor
crimes. Summarized they were as fol
lows: 1. A music teacher, unmarried, 20
years old, was walking down the Ave
nue de l'Opera at U o'clock in the af
ternoon, nnd was accosted by a well
dressed man, who Invited her to dine
with him. She paid no attention to
liltn, but ho followed her. On the Quni
du Louvre alio took one of the river
buata to go to her home. Tiie man
also took tho boat and ngaln addressed
her. She tumid away. At tho Qual
de Bercy she got off. The man got off,
Joined her, and again spoke. She ap
pealed to a policeman, who refused to
Interfere because the man had done
nothing. The young woman went on,
and presently the man caught up with
her and put his nrm around her waist.
She shook him off, and cried: "Leave
mo alone, you loafer!" The man draw
back nnd hit her a terrible blow In the
mouth, knocking out three teeth. Then
he ran the end of Ills' cane Into her left
eye, driving it completely out of Its
socket. The young woman fell to tho
sidewalk, and .the man Jumped on her
and kicked her, breaking two ribs. A
number of persona pulled the man
away, and he was finally arrested. At
the police station he nald he did not
know the woman, but she had called
him a "loafer," and he was unable to
control his anger. The young woman
was taken to the hospital and will be
there for several months. All this
happened In broad daylight, in a crowd
ed thoroughfare. If the man Is con
victed by a Jury, which is not certain,
he will probably be sentenced to Jail
for three months (extenuating circum
stance of anger, nccordlng to French
law), but sentence will be suspended
If It be a first offence.
2. A carpenter, married, was return
ing home from work at 0 o'clock in the
evening. In passing through the Hue
Turbigo, then crowded with pedes
trians, he was set upon from behind
and stabbed four times. Ills assailant,
a youth, was greatly astonished to find
he had made a mistake. He had been
"laying" for the husband of his mis
tress, nnd his victim was entirely un
known to him. This youth was dis
charged from custody three days later.
3. A student, upon the eve of get
ting married, had determined to part
with his mistress, a variety actress.
Upon pretext of having a farewell talk
with him, she persuaded him to visit
her at her apartment. She treated him
to drugged wine, nnd when he had
become unconscious poured vltrol into
both his eyes, entirely destroying the
sight. She wns arrested and tried be
fore a Jury, which acquitted her on the
ground that she had been moved by
"ungovernable jealousy."
1. A party of dissolute youths was
sitting in a wine shop of the Hue de
Flandre. The talk fell upon courage
and deeds of personal prowess. Each
recounted fiomelhlng that ho had done
out of the ordinary. The youngest, a
lad of 10, was taunted with the fact
that he had not yet made "his mark."
He became angry, nnd his companions
laughed. Suddenly tho boy pulled a
knife and pointed to the street.
Through the window they could see a
coal cart going slowly by. The boy
rushed from the shop, leaped to the
cart, and stabbed the Inoffensive driver
twelve times, finally cutting his throat.
Ills case has not yet come to trial.
Judging from slmlllar cases of the past,
tho penalty will be several months' im
prisonment, with suspension of sent
ence. That Is, the boy will not be pun
ished ut all, except In the event of his
committing another crime.
C A souteneur met a nurse girl In
the Luxembourg garden. He had nev
er seen her before, but ho Instantly
proposed that she become lib mistress.
Upon her refusal he drew a revolver
und fired at her point blank, tho ball
hitting her In the arm. Tho girl drop
ped her baby and lied, the youth pur
suing and firing. The superannuated
guardian of .the garden took refuge In
a sentry box. When the youth had
exhausted the shots In. his revolver he
pocketed It and leisurely walked away
unmolested. This happened ut 2 o'clock
In tho nfternwn, when the garden,
which Is as centrally located as Madl
eon square, was full of nursemaids.
fi. Another souteneur, who had for
mistress a 17-year-old laundrymald,
thought she wns not earning enough
money to support him properly. He
demanded that she give up her place
nnd take to tho streets. When she re
fused he knocked her down and pound
ed her face to pulp with his heels. Ho
will probably get a heavy sentence, for,
nlthough only 27 years old, his record
stands thus; Burglaries, 2; highway
robbery, 1; stabbing affrays, 7; petty
swindling, C; picking pockets, 2 twen
ty condemnations In all.
7, Two young men who had been tak
ing a walk In the suburbs reached the
fortifications shortly before dark. A
party of youths on the opposite side of
tho street crossed over nnd made some
Insulting remnrks. The two young
men paid tin attention. Notwithstand
ing that they were .ct upon by the
gang, who knocked them down and
jumped on them. Each became uncon
scious, nnd when they were found n
few minutes later It was discovered
that each had been stabbed several
times. There was absolutely no motive
for this aggression. It was simply one
of a peculiar sort, the result of pure
deviltry, seemingly, which occurs in
Pnrla two or three times a week, year
In and year out.
S. A bank clerk going home from a
dance shortly after midnight was send
bagged and robbed In the Rue Lafayette.
0. A womun of the street, plying her
vocation In the Boulevard Polssonleie,
wns stabbed and robbed at 1 o'clock.
10. A man und wife on their way
homo from the theater were garroted
and robbed In the Rue des Acacias.
11. An elderly man, slightly under the
influence of drink, was nccosted by a
woman of the street In the Boulevard
Strasbourg, who choked him while a
male confederate went through his
pockets.
12. Four policemen were attacked in
the Eplnettes quarter by a gang of
young toughs, and were severely han
dled, one having his arm broken.
13. In a public hall near the Place
d'ltalie a serious row broke out about
midnight. Three men nnd one girl
were severely hurt.
11. In a stivpt fight in the Boulevard
de le Garo between rival bands of
toughs three were shot and four stab
bed. These fourteen cases nre in no sense
a rteora of nn extraordinary day; on
the contrary, there are three hundred
and sixty-five days in the year juBt
'.Ike it. The only extraordinary thing
about the record is that It was to be
found In a single Paris newspnper. The
Parisian does not rea'lzo what a city
he is living in, because he confines his
readli.g to one papei, which considers
Itself enterprising If 't gets one-tenth
3f tht local news.
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NO POLICE Pr.JTKCTIOX.
Few men in Paris venture out in the
evening without a revolver. This Is so
because a man Is nlinost as likely to
"be attacked In a quarter alive with
people as In one of dark, lonely streets.
Nor does the respectability of the
neighborhood Insure his Immunity.
About his only chance for safety lies
in his taking a cab; and the ubiquity
and cheapness of cabs operate to keep
down the percentage' of nocturnal at
tacks. As for tho suburban districts,
It Is a very brave or a very careless
man that ventures Into their streets
after 10 o'clock at night. Neullly, Le-valloIs-Perret,
IJIIlancourt, and Pantln
are particularly dangerous. In each of
these places there are, and have been
for many years bands of thugs and
marauders which tho police have been
totally unable to break up- In the
neighborhood of the fortifications the
situation Is oven worfce. Th'ls condition
of things is accentuated by tho fact
that throughout Paris policemen habit
ually patrol the streets in pairs, never
singly. TIip Bols de I'-oulogne, practi
cally unprotected after sunset, is nev
er entered by a respectable man at
night. As for the Bols do Vlncennes,
which bears a relation to Paris much
the same ns Bronx Park bears to New
York, it Is as unsafe by day as by
night. For twenty years it has been
lie home of tramps and thieves, wo
men as well as men, who camp out In
its secluded parts all the year round.
In tho space of four months last sum
mer no less than three hundred aggres
sions, Including several murders, took
place within Its boundaries. About
onco a fortnight the police conduct a
battu'j and arrest many outlaws, but
they seem powerless to make the park
reasonably safe to the respectable citi
zen. These facts are nil perfectly well
known to tho editor who "wonder
what Chicago Would think of Paris,"
ns thev are known to moat Parisians,
but th chanco to throw a brick Is nev
er lost by the Frenchman. But, aside
from tho record remarked, that editor
might have found in the same issuo
of his paper the account of two court
cases which are perhaps even more sig
nificant of the present status of crime
In France.
A QUDEIl LAW.
Tho first was the trial of a man
charged with shooting, In the public
streets, his wife and his mother-in-law.
The wife had received threo bullets In
tho lungs and had ben eleven weeks
In the hospital. The mother-in-law, on
the contrary, had been hit In the back
and had been laid up tor only seven
weeks. This fact, by a peoullailty of
French law, prevented her from having
a standing In court: the law practi
cally says that a charge of deadly as
sault cannot be brought against a per
son unlesn tho victim has been eight
weeks in a hospital, In other words
the law presumes that an injury the
duration of which is arbitrarily, fixed
at eight weeks Is If It keeps tho victim
la ld but fifty-five days the presump
tion Is thai It was meant merely to
Injure. This monstrous law was no
more ridiculous than the xrlal, which'
was as much of a farce as Jury trials
always aie in France. The husband
was proved to be a wlfe-beater and a
good-for-nothing, und had threatened
his crime for months, Notwithstand
ing that, ho mado some witty remarks
when he was put on the stand, an cpl
t'ramatlo fling nt his mothers-in-law
tickling the Jury particularly, and they
ucqulttid him without deliberation.
France, It might ba leinarked paren
thetically, Is ubout tho only country
where a timely epigram is efficacious
In warding oft a death sentence, as It
has done many a time.
Tho other case was that of a ser
geant in the Garde nepubllcaine, who,
otter pestering a girl for many months
with his attentions, attacked her with
his sword-bayonet when she refused to
marry him. It was nn outrageous
case, tho girl being half killed, but a
Jury acquitted him without a moment's
hesitation, (Since then, but a few
duys ago, thttt man made unathet at
tack on the samo girl, who escaped
from him by Jumping out of a window.
He Is again In prison to be tried by
another Jury.)
These caseB perhips show sufficient
ly th htato of affairs that tho leniency
of the French' criminal law has brought
about. It may not bo necessary to re-
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marl: that the statistics of crime for
the last decade during which most ot
tho new laws) were promulgated Indi
cate even more sallently tho facts.
While the population has remained al
most stationary in that time, crimes
ugalnst the person have Increased
about 00 per cent., and, what la more
noteworthy.the lncreafce has been mado
up almost wholly of offences commit
ted by recidivates, or persons whom
the clemency of the law has permitted
to be at lai'BO after conviction of a llrst
crime. Two other things to be re
marked 'are, llrst, that no other coun
try has such a largo number of pro
fesftlonal criminals, and, ftcond, that
the average at:o of criminals Is In no
country as low us in Prance. Nearly
two-thirds of tho peisons guilty of ser
ious crimes' nro between 15 and 25
years, und the average age yearly
grows less.
New York and London,
The local government Journal, la mule
ing somo etatlntlcal compirlsons between
Now York anil London, says that Greater
London is double tho Bite ot Orcatcr .New
York and has double the population. It
has more than twlco as many policemen,
but only half ns many firemen, u taut
which can be enslly accounted lor when
tho character of the buildings of New
Vork is remombcred. Wo havo four times
as many scholars In our public schools,
but only 23 per cent, more teachers, wnlcli
seems to show thut bis classes us we nia
them In London schools uro not approved
In New York. We have more public li
braries, but not so many us wo ought to
have considering tho difference In pupu.
latton. Thero nro In London only naif
11s many hospitals an can bo found In
New York, nnd considering tho extraordi
nary number of accidents in thut cltv
compared with thoso in London the hos
pitals appear to be neeOed. The New
Yorker can boast of possessing nlno ip.oro
cemeteries than can be found In London,
nml ho puts tho relk'loue enterprise of
London to 'he blush by providing a
church or chapel fui every 3.U00 persons,
whllo wo only provide ono for every l.WW.
The municipal debt har gs heavier round
his neck, tho London debt being about
3."i per cent, lighter for each ratepayer.
"Orgnnlzcd charity" relieved one fumlly
out of every 200, but in London one fam
ily In ubout forly.flve Is maintained by
tho ratepayers. As rcgurds crime, par
ticularly thnt coming under tho head of
housebreaking und burglary, wo are bet
ter off than Now York, probably becauip
we are better policed, both hm regard
numbers and character. If crimes In Lqr
I don under these heads were in tho fan;
proportion as those In New York wo
should liavn ubout 1W more than New
York.
A Kuilrond That Lifts its Soll'bylts
Own Hoot Straps.
Prom Hie London Times.
In IIulford"s patent railway Hie Imme
diate motlNO power is tho force of gravity,
uml tho curs nre, as It were, ulwnys run
ning down hill. This result Is uchieved
by making the permanent wuy In sec
tions, whose length Is to bo determined by
engineering' considerations, hinged to
gether und st.ppcrted at each end on hy
draulic rums. As the train reaches tho
Junction of two sections. It puts tho hy
draulic machinery In action, so that tho
rum rises, lifting the end of tho section
together with tho curs that aro upon It.
The train thus hus a decline, dowu which
It runs by its own weight, und ns the
sumo process Is repeated with each sec
tion, It Is practically always running
down a fulling gradient, continuous,
though of varying steepness. Tho ncces.
sury hydraulic power Is convoyed through
u pipe laid beneath the rails, and the ad
mission of water to tho cylinders of tho
rams Is contrplled either by electrical
means from tho cars, or by tho weight of
ho train depressing tho section It Is
'jout to leave, und thus actuating tho
Inventor tho mils aro, raised on columns
nnd the cars suspended on either slrlo
below tho truck, but the system is claimed
to bo equally applicable to trains running
above the rails In tho ordinary way,
though lit that case It Is considered that
the limit of speed consistent with safoty
would bo much reduced. With u full
size railway tho stroko of tho rams nea
ejsaty to produce a high speed would not
bo very long, and tho passengor would ex
perlcnce little. If uny, ot.tho swltch-baclt
motion which might at flmt tight appear
Inevitable. As it model tho Invention
works very prettily, whether It woidf
prove practical in un englnprdlng sen.f
and, If m. whether It umihl b a cunt
merclul and eioiumical tui'c.H, are,
course, very different matte; .
ei(lior (iioom 'or I'cddlcr.
The Columbus Dispatch vouches tot
tho truthfulness of this: A couple culled
nt tho county auditor's olilco und asked
Deputy Stader to give them a license.
"I can give you a peddler'n Ucono."
Sir. Strader said, "but you want tho
probate court, the other slilo of that lit
tle cigar stand you reo In tho hall, Tnero
l.i where you get marriage licenses."
"Well, now," was tho reply, "wq don't
want to get a marriage IIccum1. Wo nave
had enough of them. Whul wo cumo for
pply vulve. In the model built by tho Is a llcensn for our dog a dog llcniife."
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