Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-13

In order to prove their statement
correct the publishers of the accusing
newspaper assigned one of their staff
to secure a position as conductor
This he was able to do and, further
more, succeeded in defrauding the
company of over 800 in a short
space of time.
In support of a claim to the effect
that the police force was inefficient
one paper engaged housebreaker to
burglariZe houses the location OF
which was announced beforehand in
the columns of that paper. Each day
this newspaper would tell on what
street their man would work and
would publish an account of what he
had accomplished the night before.
This was kept up for some length of
time, and the burglar was never cap
tured Indeed. he soon produced a
reign of terror, for as a consequence
of the attention given his actions by
the police many others of his profes-
sion were able to make big hauls, and
their getaways and their deeds were
credited by the police to the employee
of the sensational paper.
A woman reporter of a certain Eu-
ropean journal secured a job as
chorus girl and remained in the en-
ploy of a big company for six months.
The result of the six months work
was simply a story of the life of the
show woman. Nine. Malvery, a news
paper woman, spent years as work
ing woman to learn of ones life.
Again she spent a long time in the
army of the unemployed, going from
one employment agency to another.
and slept nights in practically all Of
the refuge houses in France. An
other woman worked for long while
as street cleaner to get an article
on the life of such a worker.
In France the newspapers are con-
stantly at war with the police. Time
after time they sent their representa-
tives to commit crimes simply to
show the public how inefficient is the
notice service. Such examples as
that of the housebreaker are not I'M
common, and often the reporters
have escaped the officers of the law
George Daniels. in order to Judge
the vigilance of the Paris force.
dressed himself in the sl1ullcap and
clothes of an Apache" Ca band of
anarchist desperadoes) AMI for two
hours walked the streets with val
liable new bicycle in his hand. Dur
ing this long walk not single officer
molested him or even stopped him to
ask where he got the wheel. He
passed many of the police, and his
little adventure was used as the basis
For an attack upon the brains of the
force.
Charles Waller of Petit Bleu pre-
tended to be lunatic and paraded up
and down the boulevards crying out
that he was Napoleon returned. He
passed two guards unhindered before
4 third arrested him. Another French
newspaper man feigned lunacy to get
story on life in an asylum and came
near not getting out.
M. Christian, one evening before
the gardens of the Louvre were closed
for the day, hid himself until after
the cry of GAIL out!" was sounded, He
was not seen by any one until he him
self called attention to the fact that
he had eluded them. He was arrest
ed but he had proved his point that
the gardens were insufficiently
guarded.
It does not require great courage of
conviction to feign insanity or to hide
from the police. but to throw one
self in the river. bound with ropes, In
order to see whether you will be saved
to write n story for "A paper, shows a
rore love of sensation. One day in