Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — PARISIAN POLICE "HANG ON" [ARTICLE]

PARISIAN POLICE "HANG ON"

One American Autofet Found Them Relentless, and Was at Last 1 Glad to Anyone who has ever attempted to fight the police of Paris has been woe.fully defeated, and an American auto* mobilist who has Just made a heroic attempt to resist this powerful instfe tutfon has met his Waterloo Bke all his predecessors. Returning from a drive to the suburbs one day last summer he made a mistake of three liters in the declaration of the amount of petrol in his tank. He refused to P«y the penalty and was taken, handcuffed, to the police depot Proceedings were instituted against him and the refractory automobilist was sentenced to a fine of S2O and costs. Aa an alternative he might choose one month's imprisonment. “I shall go to prison,” he said. Some time passed and he was net molested. He imagined that the police had forgotten all about him. But one morning as he wss coming out of his house two policemen laid their hands on him and took him a second time to the depot, where lie was put in a cell with common criminals. He spent the whole day here and In the evening he was taken with the rest of the prisoners—one of them a notorious apache—to the Sante Jail. The following morning he was offered, the usual pittance in an old prison can, the very sight of which disgusted him, and he refused it, He asked for some food to. be sent to him from the outside and offered to pay, but this favor was refused because, he was told, be was only “transitory” at the prison and no account could be opened for him. He did without the food the whole day and the following morning the same food was offered him and again declined. , > V;

In the afternoon he was put in the dark police omnibus and after hours of Jolting over the rough suburban paved streets he x was landed at Hie general prison at Presnes. Here, on the third day, the common fore wan again offered to him. He was unable to take it and, at last, after a heroic fast .of 72 hours he preferred to pay the fine and costs and was released. The police had Its way and It would be a good lesson to any foreigner who might be tempted in a similar case to protest Better pay any small penalty a! once than to arouse the wrath of the terrible institution that holßs Paris in its grip. . * The Lonely Pope. II Secola of Milan, one of the most considerable papers in Italy, lends its columns approvingly to reproducing from La Perseveranfo an article which describes Pope Plus X as dying In the Vatican from homesickness. In the blistering heat of midsummer Rome he pines for the cooling canals which make his beloved Venice one of the most pleasant of summer, cities. According to this authority, the physicians who have the care of the Pope understand perfectly that If he could leave the Vatican and return to Venice he could easily survive the Ills he labors under, and even greater ones. As for the political consequences of such a removal, the. Feraerveranza’a Rome correspondent says that if tote Pope were to be removed to recover among the old friends where he was so long priest and Bishop, the Government would not regard it as an acceptance of the law of guarantee or as an event of political consequence. "He who would emerge from the Vatican would not be Pope? Pins X, but Joseph Sarto seeking a cure.” .