Show SECRET POLICE OF 1 four branches of organization with varying duties I 1 you cannot go anywhere in paris without meeting the secret police al though you would never recognize them observed a briton familiar with the french capital there are four divisions 0 these uniformed crime detectors the first division is known as the surety the business ot which is to trade down knon crimi nals and capture them they are dar ing wily and resourceful fellows and it Is a clever malefactor indeed who can evade them another body of this plain clothes police looks after the tenants of lodging houses and hotels they take note of all the arrivals and departures and gather statistics regarding the workmen in the factories he sick in hospitals and private houses and so forth A third division occupies itself with political plotters agitators and gamblers at meetings of a seditious character they mingle with the crowd and to disarm sus biclon applaud as loudly as anybody and join in denunciations of the gov eminent they appear in gambling dens as gamblers themselves and they also keep a quiet watch on the regular police the remaining divis ion consists of elegantly dressed per sons who wat chover the president and protect him not only from ansas assas sins but also from bores and cranks cassells saturday journal |