Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-09
PARIS il" CRIMINAL" MICRoBE,
Hooligans Along Unprotected Suburbs
Better Police Service Wanted.

From the London Pail Mall Gazette.
Just when the earth's temperature rises
to certain degree 1t Is supposed to release
the germs Of Infectious diseases so the
criminal microbe seems to be especially
active in the summer heats. 1t is perhaps,
not really So from a statistical point of
view, but, at any rate, it is a microbe that
gets Itself more talked about than I'm the
winter, when there are other matters to
occupy the attention of the newspapers. At
this moment, with the Grand PrM oyer
and the Fashionable life in the boise on
the wane. We are rapidly approaching the
silly season, when Paris criminality
reaches its high-water mark In the columns
of the Fats Divers" OF a truth. there
is reason for a certain disauietude at the
prevalence of crime, not only at this mo-
ment, but during the whole round of tina
twelve months.
The central parts Of Paris are well and
adequately policed, but the suburbs and the
outer regions are in a deplorable condition
of insecurity. No other conclusion can
be come to from the long series of attacks
upon the person. murders, robber.es and
violations which have been set forth in the
police news during the last eighteen months.
A case in point Is the shocking assassina-
ton of the English governess Miss Char
lotte Cary, which Is now occupying the at
tention OF M. Hamard and his sharpest de-
tectives. That such a deed Is possible in
broad daylight and at the very gates of
Paris is no compliment to the police -
rangements. l hasten to say that the po-
lice themselves are not necessarily to be
condemned: rather. on the contrary, 1t is
the limited budget. or grant. that Is at
fault. The police service is starved for
want of funds-a condition, by the way.
which Is not singular in Paris.
The organization OF the cycle police has
brought certain amount of order and Sc
curity into some districts. but they can
not obviously perform quite the same serv-
ice as the foot police. Too much license is
longing to a detestable class which preys
upon women and supplements its evil earn
ings by an occasional robbery Or murder.
Numbers Of these utterly worthless mem
bers OF society are to be seen on this or
any other fine afternoon summing them
selves on the Notifications. which are the
especial haunts OF the malefactors One Of
the first measures toward rendering the
be the suppression of these ill-favored
loafers. whose characters and occupations
are well known to the police
Short of Draconian laws against these
people there are other measures to be
taken that should result in some ameliora-
ton of the summer crime of Paris. Appeal
should be made to the good taste and pa
triotism OF certain journals who specialize
In criminal details. whose daily dole OF
murder, suicide and sDoliation IS a success
sion of stimulation to the weak-brained to
go and do likewise. The theaters. too, are
not without blame. Lately we have seen a
series of positively horrible dramas, one in
which woman is strangled before the
audience in the most realistic manner and
in much the way in which the poor English
woman appears to have met her death.
There is too lenient an eye cast on incite-
ments to crime and that is. believe, the
cause of great deal of 1t. No wonder a
deputation from the city council is urging
the government to abolish public execu-
tions, which is the apotheosis and giorif-
cation of the criminal Without advertise
nent he would largely cease to be.