Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — French Police Stupidity. [ARTICLE]

French Police Stupidity.

An extraordinary case of police stupidity is reported from St. Quentin, writes a Paris correspondent. The driver of a motor car which had run through a covey of partridges on the highroad was visited at his hotel by a gendarme and was asked if he had a shooting license. No such document being forthcoming, the motorist was served with summonses for two distinct offenses—killing and carrying off a partridge and failing to declare game on passing through the octroi barrier. It afterward transpired that one of the partridges had become entangled in and was killed by the radiator of the motor car.