The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-12
WHERE CRIME RUNS RIOT
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hit, ,ps, her in the ram. The girl drop ped her baby and fled, the youth pur- suing and firing. The superanuated guardian of the garden took refuge in sentry box. When the youth had ex- hausted the shots in his revolver, he pocketed it and lelsurely walked away unmolested This happened at o'clock In the afternoon, when the garden which is as centrally located as Madi- son square, was full of nursemaids.
 G. Another souteneur, who had for mistress a seventeen -year-old laundry maid. thought she was not earning enough money to support him properly. He demanded that she give up her place and take to the streets. When she re- fused, he knocked her down and pound- ed her face to pulp with his heels. He will probably get heavy sentence, for, although only twenty-seven years old, his record stands thus: Burglaries, 2; highway robbery, i; stabbing affrays, '; petty swindling, 6; picking pockets, A. twenty condemnations in all.
 T. Two young men who had been talk ing walk in the suburbs reached the Qualifications shortly before dark. A party of youths on the opposite side of the street crossed over and made some insulting remarks. The two young men paid no attention. Notwithstanding that, they were set upon by the gang, who knocked them down and jumped on them. Each became unconscious, and when they were found few min- utes later 1t was discovered that each had been stabbed several times. There was absolutely no motive for this ag gression. It was simply one of pecu- liar sort, the result of pure deviltry, seemingly, which occurs in Paris two or three times a week, year in and year out.
 IA bank clerk going home from a dance shortly after midnight was sand bagged and robbed in the Rue Lafay- cite.
 g. A woman of the street, plying her vocation in the Boulevard Poissoniere, was stabbed and robbed at o'clock.
 10. A man and wife on their way home from the theater were garroted and robbed in the Rue des .Acacas.
 Il. An elderly man, slightly under the influence of drink, was accosted by 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 Epinettes quarter by a gang of young toughs, and were severely hand led, one having his arm broken.
 B. In a public ball near the Place d'Italie serious row broke out about midnight. Three men and one girl were severely hurt.
 IA. In a street fight in the Boulevard de la Care between rival bands of toughs three were shot and four stab- bed
 These fourteen cases are in no sense a record of an extraordinary day; but on the contrary, there are three hun dred and sixty-five days in the year just like it. The only extraordinary thing about the record is that it was to be found in a single Paris news paper. The Partisan does not realize what d city he is living in, because he confines his reading to one paper, which considers itself enterprising if it gets one-tenth of the local news
 Few men in Paris venture out in the evening without a revolver. This is so because man is almost as likely to be attacked in a quarter alive with people as in one of dark, lonely streets. Nor does the respecta bility of the neighbor- hood insure his immunity About his only chance for safety lies in his talk ing cab; and the ubiquity and cheap ness of cabs operate to keep down the percentage of nocturnal attacks. As for teh suburban districts, 1t is very brave or very careless man that ven- lures into their streets after 10 o'clock at night. Neuilly, Levallois-Perret, Bill iancourt, and Pantin are particularly dangerous. Tn each of these places there are, and have been for many years, bands of thugs and narauders which the police have been totally un- able to break up. In the neghborhood of the Notifications the situation is even worse. This conditions of things is accentuated by the fact that through out Paris policemen habitually patrol the streets in pairs, never singly. The Bois de Boulogne, practically unpro- tected after sunset, is never entered by respectable man at night. As for the Bois de Vincennes, which bears a relation to Paris much the same as Bronx Park bears to New York, it is unsafe by day as by night. For twenty
  and thieves, women as we'll as men, who camp out in its secluded parts all the year round. In the space of four months last summer no less than three hundred aggressions, including several murders, took place within it's boun- daries About once fortnight the po- lice conduct battue and arrest many outlaws, but they seem powerless to make the park reasonably safe to 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 lost by the Frenchman. But, aside from the record remarked, that editor might have found in the same issue of his paper the account of two court cases whicf are perhaps even more significant of the present status of crime in France.
 The first was the trial of a mar charged with shooting, in the public streets, his wife and his mother-in-law The wife had received three bullets 1T the lungs and had been eleven weeks in the hospital. The mother-in-law, or the contrary, had been hit in the back and had been laid up for only sever weeks. This fact by a peculiarity O. French law, prevented her from having