Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-03-16
Partisan Detective Service.

Crime il cerfa My detected faster in
France than in Eagi.od, and k.oitual
criminals are feser there than here; but
this Is because wben q man is arrested on
suspicion, the Juge dInstitution keeps
him locked up until he has wormej al.
the truth out of him. Then every French
mans etat cirH is Sd carefully kept that,
when his identity is made all his sntece.
deuts stand revealed. As it is, French
Juge d'InstitutiOn was quite justified in
remarking that terminals are their
own detectives" for, when one Of them
falls 10 the tolls, the torture of secret
confinement and cross questioning g-ner-
abettOrs. Then French detectives possess
powers Ofindiscriminate arrest and dOmi-
iciliary search. On the faintcst suspicion
they may ransuck a mans house, seize
his papers. throw him into Jail, and keep
him there for months without any remedy
and, what is more, they do this as often
Us il suits them.
The Partisan detective service is COM
posed of 22O officers, who are called in
functions consists in going round period
ically to hotels and letters Of furnished
apartments and asce raining the names of
dodgers on the books. Every English
man. who has visited France is aware
that travellers, on arriving in hotel, are
requested to fill up cards, stating their
names, ages, professions, etc. Hotel
keepers are not very particular as t" this
formality being scrupulously complied
with by foreigners; but they are very
strict towards their own countrymen, and
lodging house keepers will not let a room
to q Frenchman for more than night
without an exhibition of papers certifying
to his identity. This greatly facilitates
the labors of the police, for papers of
etat civil are not easily forged, SO that
when once q suspected man absconds
there is usually some clue by which to
trace linn. Detectives were, until thirty
years ago, recruited exclusively from the
'cri,hiHaf ciasses, il Difference to a we'll.
known maxina, and to this day it is known
that few discharged convicts arc at
tached to the Prefecture for the purpose
Of spying upon prisoners under deten-
ton before trial. These, in slang, are
termed mout0ns, but they are only semi.
official agents, aud the regular detectives
are persons Who, if not Of unimpeachable
character, have never got into trouble
with the law. Many are petty trades
men who have failed in business, others
policeme. promoted for acuteness, others
men Of education who have run through
their money or become declasses through
some youthful indiscretion and there is q
percentage of Corsicsns who have joined
the service from sincere vocation for its
life Of adventure, and who find in it full
scOpe for the cunning and duplicity which
are the characteristics of their race Under
the Empire Napoleon Ills secret body
guard was composed entirely Of Corsi-
cans; and nowadays these men are much
used to watch Republican committees,
political meetings at election time, and
also TO cope With the more dangerous
classes OF criminals who are likely Ia
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