The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09

/. A music teacher, unmarried, % years old.
o'clock in the AFTERNOON, and Was sccosted By 4
Eell-drSsSed man. who invited her to dine with
inwsa She s.rp paid a. no p, st tent n A. to him; but IT, he ,d fol,
man also look the boat and again addressed
she got OF. The man got of. Joined her. and
again spoke. She appealed to a policeman, who
nothing. The young woman went on, and
presently the man caught up with her and put
his arm around her waist She shook him q.
man drew back and hit her a terrible blow
IN the mouth. knocking out three teeth. Then
diving Il f i c s@S 81 1s' o SsnS Of 'f iiS 1 Socket ist' f III;
young woman fell to the sidewalk, and the man
I IiS1lp on nun asr and ID fisEsa h1 psl Sssaf tbs n s%o
lice station, he said he did not know the woman,
was taken e the hospital and Win be there foF
Daylight " IN q crowded owe spi tho %epgihHfsG II the
Fasn. h So 0N %iII psSss sS 5 5sr ;cn Tnlse Z to 1 jSfl for for
win 30 suspended Il it be arst offence.
from work a. . O'clock II the evening. IN pass;
Ing through the Rue Turbigo. then crowded
Snd s psSSSSstaTifs onr Tines In ss' H. II: s SsSnl lnS% a S youtS.
%is.sEs; As had been SlayInsH for the hs::
from custody three days later ""'
had q d. sspains; dr To pat. sas % fES e Sis s' ni Is ! + %sF ! va:
riety actress; Upon pretext Of having a fare.
well vel talk = wi with him, she pe sSn tra, him b t. visit 1T
scionSS poured vitrioi into both his eyes. en-;
the eround that she had been moved BY un:
q. A party of dissoluto youths was sitting In
q wine shop OF the Rue do Flandre. The talk
fslt SSP Peco SHHssf so sns SfesS t Ii Pf% Re n@d d ao1se out
Ssantos WIZ he fact that Ee had not yst made
knife and pointed to the street. Through the
by. The boy rushed from the shop, ieaped to the
cart, and stabbed the .inonensive driver twelve
ti%'s, finally lily cutting Il 9Gia his 1 thT . Him cs s;%l has
months Imprisonment, with suspension Of sen:
eli. except In the event Of his committing an.
8. A souteneur met q nurse girl in the Luxem-
but he instantly proposed that she become his
In the arm. The girl dropped her baby and fed.
the youth pursuing and firing. The superan.
sentry box. When the youth had exhausted the
ehots in his revolver he pocketed 1t and leisure.
y o GsIasd "a Gw sSe ua afas4Soosl w dals e eSpP psnfde a.
which p as centrally located Il as Madison square.
was full of nursemaids.
a 17.year-old laundrymaid. thought. she was not
earning enough money to support him properly.
t hs de To tss st ahs. she w gisa u sRb her ra a,aSs aR he
knocked her down and pounded her face to pulp
with bis heels. He will probably get a heavy
record stands thus: Burglaries, 2;highway rob.
berry, Ii stabbing affrays.7 z; petty swindling. g;
walk in the suburbs reached the Qualifications
opposite oppo.aiI Ss sias o. aat he q str ssE's sr 81 sdae oTe on s IND
a. Is ZONE On u insulting EemSSrk s Ihs tNo young
them down and jumped on them. Each became
unconscious. and when they we're found = few
been stabbed several times. There was abso-
lutely no motive for this aggression; It was
d~evlltry. seemingly, which occurs in Paris two
or three times 2 week. year In and year out.
O.. A woman of the street, plying her vocation
10. A man and wife on their way home from
the theatre were garroted and robbed in the
II. An elderly man, slightly under the in;
t ansn Street Ct drink IN fh wai bo asfSsssd 81 strs a %0msn who 10
choked him while q male confederate went
through his pockets.
.l2. -Four policemen were attacked in tho
Epinettes quarter by a gang OF young toughs,
and were severely handled, one having his arm
IS. In a public ball near the Place d'Italie a
serious row broke out about midnight Three
men and ono girl wore severely hurt.
IA. In a street fight In the boulevard de la
Care between rival bands OF toughs three were
shot and four stabbed.
Of an extraordinary day; but, on the contrary.
there are three hundred and sixty-hve days In
III thinEy s ABOUT iss sse ,i reeo I'd is g hat pP Fl y sst r. BE- foanS
in a single Paris newspaper; The Partisan does
not realize what a city he Is living In, because
siders itself enterprising II it gets one.tenth of
Few mon in Paris venture out in the evening
without q revolver. This is so because a man is
almost as likely TO DO attacked in q querter alive
Wit d people lie as In one nS,, e. d ds x, lonely mel gb s,rsetsi
insure his Immunity: About his only chance for
safety, lies in his taking a cab; and tho nbi9uity
the percentage Of nocturnal. attacks. AS for
the suburban districts. 1t Is z very brave
night; Neuilly, Levallois; Perret, Biiancourt,
and Pantin are particularly dangerous. In
each Of these places there are. and have
been for many years. bands Of thugs and ma.
rauders which the police have been totally una
BILE to break up. In The neighborhood OF the for
tihcations tho situation Is even worse. This
condition of things is accumulated by the fact
tnsf the anPS ssreeps IN r paisr pG neVsr sinR RSo'' The B 81,
de Boulogne, practically unprotected after sun:
set, 10 never entered by q respectable man at
night. As for the Bots de Vincennes, which
bears q relation to Paris much the Same as
Bronx Park bears To New York, 1t IL as unsafe
BY day as by night. For twenty years It has
well as men. who camp ont in its secluded parts
all the year round. In the space Of four months
last summer no less than three hundred agrees
sions, including several murders. took place
within Its boundaries. About once a fortnight
the police conduct a battue and arrest many out
laws, hut they seem powerless "a make the park
reasonably safe 70 the respectable citizen.
These facts are all perfectly well known to the
editor who wonders what Chicago would think
of Paris" as they are known to most Parisians.
but the chance to throw a brick is never
record remarked. that editor might have found
In the same issue Of his paper the account of
two court cases which are perhaps even moro
significant OF the present status Of crime In
France.
Tho first was the trial OF a man charged with
in the public streets, his wife and his
bullets in the lungs and had been eleven weeks
In the hospital. The mothor-in-law, on the con.
trary. had been hit In the back and had been laid
for only seven weeks. This fact. by n pecu.
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