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Show PARIS POLICE f 8 . AHEWjLr LOT Interesting Facts Revealed ;1 Concerning Operations of ; d Famous French System. 11 MUST KEEP ABREAST OF , 1 ?i WORLD'S EVERY MOVEMENT : 1 1 Dog Frightens Boy to Death I Under Highly Peculiar 1 Circumstances. ! BY PAUL VTLLIEBS. I Special Cable to The Tribune. ilfa PARIS, Aug. 20. Tho Rochetto case, BP : with its scandals and hints of gravo (it scandals, has passed into history. Tho iffj trial brought out some Interesting facts lE a about tho French secret pollco and its is' i methods, which have been followed up by If i some of tho papers, particularly the In- : I ! j trnnslgeant. The French system has j ifl j i been long regarded as the most porfect r j f I in the world, and some of iiie Interviews J i ' 1 printed in the Intrnnslgeant aro worth li I ' f reading. There Is an Interview with tho j- "Dlrocteur des Rcchcrchcs," at tho pro- ' r fct focture of police, of wlUch the following i 3 ijj is tho gist. According to the report of . I -ft their conversation, thc official frankly It I I Btated: I' j i "Yes, thoro are secret agents. This Is ? J.L evident, and quite natural. As M. Le- Hi" plno said yosterday, we are obliged to ' ifi koep an eyo on everything that threatens E I- the public security. How do you think ) that we could parry tho blows which ffl' menace it If we were not warned? And Bll you may suppose that it Is not the pro- III motors of disorder who come to acquaint Itfjk us with their designs. We must obtain ufm - intelligence of what i3 passing In cor- Ufl tain quarters. Besides, all governments, whatever they may be, or may have boen, have had their secret agents." S "And it is you who are entrusted with fl this service?" "Yes. it Is I who am in communlca- fl tion with them, and hold all theso fl. strings. This Is my province: and there fl It Is. What moro would you have me to fl tejl you? fl "What you please; as much as you BY- like. For Instance, you have some la flit every class. These visitors must some- Hfe times be very Interesting." flu. Tho official was not edified bv this. Ho fl.. exclaimed indignantly that he could not fl- t go into details and reveal their mcns m'i of defense, and whon he was urged to fir. say a little he cut tho Interview 6hort JMiZ- by remarking that he really could not Wta betray professional secrecy. BK i Recourse was then hnd to M. Jaume. late chief inspector of tho criminal do- tectlve department, who, as soon as the mJSfii subject was broached, cried: "Thc secret police lias always existed, Ife. and always will exist. The authorities iB havo always had to surround themselves ' Bp J with agents of all sorts, who daily in- 'Je I form them of everything that may bo - I plotted against the government. And Wty J this will go on until tho end of tho ffe. jjl world. Indignant speeches may proclaim M&fJ to the chamber the .abolition of the so- qlrvfl crct police, but It will continue to ox- hCiI 1st. There are so many ways of recruit- OB- S Ing secret agents. Thc jealous, thc en- BS M vlous, tho people who have lost caste, or flj arc starving, and tho foreign adventurers. IF constitute the bost of the elements at tho jEi -fl disposal of tho prefecture, because they fe ' fl are so many Indirect agents who have not jB- 'fl to be sought out, and voluntarily come W . 'M forward to sell for a trifling sum, even fi--fl sometimes for a dejeuner, all thc Infor- At jfl matlon that they have about an affair jg, ifl which interests thc criminal detcctlvo lb jfl department. ut Unconscious Helpers. r jBJ "Then, again, It is so easy to como r i'jflj across unconscious helpers. Friends and $ tflj acquaintances whom one often meets aro f ifll only too glad to come out with their i r iflj 'tips,' Most of theso agents are un- ft .flj known to thc prefecture. Thoy give their fll Information to go-betweens, and so they : iflfl escape suspicion. This is why I do not fll Imagine that pcoplo should think serious- ? :fll ly of conspiring against the republic. If iflfl I wero to get up a plot with 200 persons. flfl I should be only too much afraid that 199 . flfl of my accomplices might belong to tho u flfl police." 'flfl Thc paper relates an anecdote which !' 'flfl may. or may nor. hnvo any foundation, c. flfl but which, at any rate, throws an inter- p flfl cstlng side light- on this subject. Tho L. flfl story Is that one day a grand seigneur, fe'Sfll devoid of Republican proclivities, was glv- ,K flflflj ing a fete, when thc prefect of police of Kflfll that time asked for several cards of In- M flfl vitation for his agents, alleging political Biflfll necessity as tho reason for this appllca- lfl i no gciuicmau was vury iiiujkiiciiii. h mWM by tho way of compromise, the prefect. Iflflfl who had called in person, asked if hn Hflflfl might be allowed to see the list of tho Pflflfll guests. The lists were shown to him. VnHHl He looked It over and returned it to the jflfll host, saying with a gracious smile: "Well. flflfl let me suppo.se that I never applied for jflfljl anything. It Is all for tho best." Tho flflfl obvious inferenco is that thc prefect flflfl found in tho list the names of a good flflj many people who were sure to glvo him flflfl on the following day a full account of flflfl everything Hint had been said and dono flflfl aU that particular fete. jflBV Dog Fatally "Frightens Boy. jfl Portho.s, a police dog of some reputa- H tion. has been the cause of a boy's fatal flflfl fright. The animal was taken out for flflfl his dally walk near the Porte dc la Mu- flflfl cue by two inspectors, when It suddenly flflfl darted up the mounds of thc fortiflca- flflflj tlon6 ns If it had detected the presence flflflj of apaches. It stopped on tho border, flflflj and on a little ledge below thero wero flflfl two boys, aged I I, who wero looking for flflfl birds' nests. On seeing the head of tho flflfl dog appear suddenly over tho edge with- flflflj In one yard or two of thc boys, they got flflflj a fright, and one fell backward Into the dry flflflj ditch on a lot of stones. The other hoy, flflflj also frightened, scrambled up the cm- flflflj bankment and tried to run away, when flflflj tho dog caught him und held him fast. flflfl When tho Inspectors descended to thn flflflj ditch whore the first boy had fallen they .flflflj found hhu dead. He hnd been killed on xflflflJ the spot by striking his head on tho flflflj flflflj |