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Show er is brought before tho state prote-cutor prote-cutor time after time, if one interview is not suflicient, and interrogated. An assistant is Ihero to take down the replica, and witnesses to attest. There is do delicacy about the questions addressed ad-dressed to the defendant, and he is not permitted to have counsel present to enable him to evade or repel them. Every query is a home-thrust, sharpened sharp-ened by facts which have been ascertained ascer-tained by the examining magistrate, or which the police have been Indus-riously Indus-riously gathering from everywhere. The instruments of crime are exposed before the prisoner; and even the skull of u victim, if the case Is one of murder. mur-der. All the surroundings are suggestive sugges-tive of the terror of the law, and of the wisdom of propitiating it us far as may be by a full confession. Crime Investigate!. j In America, after the accused peton tias been arrested and hold, he is imprisoned im-prisoned or bailed, as the case majbe, tand never sees the prosecuting offcer excepc in open court, when he appars to plead to an indictment, or to Bind trial Not so in France. The prijn- i i I |