OCR Text |
Show ENGLISH POLICE. Interj'stlug, Indeed, nre the accounts e nro getting those days about the Ungllsh police, or, moro definitely, the London police. Kverybody heard ot the great "Unttle or Mile Knd Hoad" which occin led the third of tills month, end In which sccros of police men and some tioops participated, all combining to arrest two anarchist with the picturesque nam'ec of "Dutch" Fritz" and "Peter the Painter." Instead, In-stead, or going into the building and taking the men, as American police would have done, they laid selge to tho building and endeavored to smoke tho offenders out.' In tho end several people lost their lives Including tho two besclgcd. Noav comes a story of Sir Thomas Llpton which gives an account of how some London police arrested a supposed sup-posed lunatic who demanded money of the gallant gentleman. Sir Thomas said he would bo pleased to accommodate accom-modate the stranger who thanked him and said, "You have saved my life. ' "Thereupon," Sir Thomas tells tho story, "ho threw the razor on the billiard table. I walked to the door, saying: .'ICxcuse me; there's tho telephone. tele-phone. Iwill bo back in a minute." 1 slipped out or tho door nndaent roi tho police. When they camo 1 asked them to pietend to look at tho pie tures. They walked about tho room admiring ad-miring tho pictures until they got close, when thoy pounced upon tho man and placed him under arrest." How adroitly and fearlessly those stalwart "botihles" acted! "What stealthy stops must havo been theirs to lead them to a tavorablo vantage ground horn which to pounce upon tills lunatic! How pathetically absurd, ab-surd, compared to tho American police who would havo walked up to the man and kicked him squarely out or the lioiiso and into tho Illack Mariar. |