Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-03
PARIS SECRET POLICE.
YOUR NAME AND LOOKS ON
THEIR BIO EOOKS.
They Surround tho Presidents Residence
Armed Only with "a Cord They
Arrest the Most Desperate
Criminals.


you give your coin or the handsome
ledger in your own house
There are four divisions. The first
is known as the Surety. Its business
Is to trace willy malefactors and ar
rest them.
The division numbers 800 inspec-
tors with thirty nine superior officers.
The former are poorly paid. 1910 TO
$500 year with so for clothes
They have no regular hours but
must go at the call OF their superiors.
They are not armed by the depart
ment as the ordinary policemen are
Their usual weapon is called cabri-
olet This is nothing more than a
stout cord. which can be made into a
species of moose. The moose Is slipped
over the wrist OF the victim. and ne
is led or driven into the station.
1t Is said that the inspectors take q
pride In running in their game with
out scratch and without using any
other weapon than this cabriolet In
case there is resistance offered they
have two or three peculiar little
devices to disable the captive
For instance they take of one OF
his shoes and compel him to walk like
My son John" He is so hampered
usually by this treatment that there
Is no furSher trouble.
IL this is not enough they cut his
trouser buttons and force him to use
his free hand to hold on his garments.
The Surety is called upon to per-
form MANY difficult tasks. Many
times IL is question OF the mum Der
OF hours they can lie out in the rain.
sit in the snow. stand in an angle
watching a suspected door or window;
but they never desert their posts until
they have secured their prey or
pro ed it not there. tN
Another division looks after the
registers OF apartment hotels and
lodging houses generally.
When i first rented rooms in Paris
was surprised to be confronted by a
big book. in which l was asked TO
write my name, occupation. residence.
aye former dwelling place and several
other things which self-respecting
when he is among strangers
complied because up n consult
ing the book l found that all m
predecessors at No - Rue de SO.
and-So had.
Twas just recovering from the irri-
tation when / saw a big man with an
hcial air and notebook come In and
copy what l had written This
seemed to be making rather famil lar
with facts ! considered private and
demanded an explanation from my
landlord.
She paralyzed me by telling me it
was police officer. To be registered
with the police twenty-four hours
after you arrive in foreign city is
not consoling. but l kept quiet and
waited. After some ten months
nothing has come OF the registration.
The division is really very useful.
1t is composed. all told OF lao men
OF them 1870 are inspectors They COL
lect from day to day the names Of
arrivals and departures and prepare
for each person card which is filed
with the police.
Its personnel is usually composed
OF half worn-out policemen. and Of
inspectors who are able to do its easy
work. but are unfit for the exposure
OF more vigorous service
There is still another division-that
OF news. 1t is composed of four sec
tions The first OF these has the diff
cult business OF attending to ,meetings
OF revolutionary character. and to
gambling. f,tA
The anarchists the rabid Republi-
cans the rioters gather from time to
time in places more or less retired and
harangue one another in the interest
OF folly and disorder
A gathering OF this kind without
representative OF Unauthorized po-
lice is rare indeed. They loiter in
with the crowd and applaud with the
most violent They hear their trade
denounced without writing, and they
60 homo with full and often an al
most verbatim report in their heads.
Here work with gamblers is what
It is the world over. though perhaps
there is little more OF it. Gam
blers thrive like weeds all over Paris
from the aristocratic opera quarters
TO the walls They are raided one
night and what OF the lot escapes
cheerfully installs itself somewhere
else before another nightfall. One
section OF the division OF news looks
after the uniformed policeman. IL
spies on his habits reports him for
taking sly glass OF wine as he
tramps up and down the street for
his visits with the concle 'gies at the
hall doors for his indifference to I'M
licensed beggars for his omissions
and commissions
IL also investigates all charges
made against the police. The sec
tion Is small-only about forty seven
persons.
There remains only a small force oil
he ununiformed service. IL has the
10 interesting duty OF looking after the
palace OF The Elysee where the presi-
lent OF the republic lives
The members for this division re-
give daily fee of from so cents to
Al to keep themselves well dressed.
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