Show FOREIGN POLICE ANTICS The French police are in bad odor with the people peo pIe of Paris The Parisians like clever detective work but also enjoy clever er criminal escapes The secret police of the French capital have long been looked on as the very finest of the finest But the glory of this this' upper stratum of the Parisian police has bas departed o or is i hidden for the time under hinder a cloud so expansive and so opaque as to be completely complete complete- ly Is out of sight Its unbroken en line of failures in a number of recent recent- celebrated cases has hns been phenomena phe phe- S First among these is the escape of Boulaine Bou Bou- lame laine the Parisian banker whose embezzlements were on a scale of millions minions then the of I Canon Rosenberg vicar general at nt Cyprus who founded a bogus charity convent called La Ln Lumiere or Eternal Light stating that be he intended to do for the Third French Republic what Madame de Maintenon l did for Louis XIV ills His colossal clerical swindles involved the historic names of several sev sev- eral illustrious illustrious women of France Thirdly came the utter failure of the police to get the faintest clue to Madame radame Humbert whose gigantic frauds netted over ove francs To 10 these must be added twelve other sensational crimes without the police getting any trace of or the culprits Among mong these are the murders rs of four professional beauties bean beauties ties three thrifty thrift old oid la ladies lief two men cut to pieces and stowed away in traveling bags hag and nd a a. dentists dentist's assistant murdered in the fhe fashionable quarter of the Champs ees It is however m the HIe escape of the three famous fa fa- fa mOlls swindlers that has most profoundly lr aronse aroused Paris Pads The Tle putty putty fingered fingered Parisian police let Boulaine Bou Bou- lame lain po go o ver very easily The-escape The of now thoroughly investigated shows that this going easy fashionable banker on leaving court in inthe inthe inthe the Palace o of 01 Justice persuaded the detectives that S the Judge who ha had hatt been very polite to him bim had announced that he be was to be released if he could find caution money francs After Aftel taking his jailers in a cab to a fashionable restaurant where all three dined on oysters roast partridge and cham champagne they drove about making calls caUs on Boul ines ine's affluent friends until during one of these of-these these visits to the house 49 Rue which has a double exit the adroit financier disappeared No 1 o trace trac of him has since been obtained The rhe lanker banker presumably bly lily stepped into a club coupe awaiting him at the second exit and drove e off ofT smoking a choice cigar So says the Parisian press lieSS which clamors for fot executive ex ex- S vengeance ng ance on the inefficient special police once the glory glory- lor of the French capital From Paris to Berlin seems Beems natural enough h for a 11 transition in inquest inquest quest of police items The Berlin Bellin police are arc divided di into various classes such as political police uniformed uniformed uni formed police building police river police sanitary sani sanitary sani sani- look after oHm all nil foreigners for tot tary police Tile The political police eigners coming to the German capital Every housekeeper house keeper or 01 hotelkeeper is obliged to report the names of ot arriving strangers within three lays days A A. young Joung American went to Berlin nerlin to study medicine Betook He Be took a i. i room in a private priva te house Two Tivo da lays days B after the landlady told him he must give a n registration certificate certificate cere to the police pollee He lie willingly complied filling out a paper laper with his name profession his native nathe cit city the date late of his birth and the name of the person person per per- I son from whom he had rented the room But this was not nil ihl ll Next la da day the landlady informed him he lie must present himself to the police at nt a certain i office with his passport He did so and atHI then he had to meet a n perfect fusillade of questions Name Business flimsiness How long he intended to remain Place of birth Fathers Father's name name Mothers Mother's maiden name Where coming from last Ever in Berlin before Place of residence residence- in Berlin Place of residence in A America merica New Orleans that is in France wrote the intelligent police interrogator and the tonal process for the time hin being ended |