Crime Wave

Printed in L'Echo de Paris: "Saturday, a lunatic wandered along the Boulevard de la Madeleine. She fired her revolver and voil`a, three people went to the hospital.

"Sunday a lunatic went to the window with his rifle and killed his neighbor.

''My goodness,' says the Good Parisien, 'I cannot go out any more; I find the boulevard dug up; I risk being run over; and I may be shot if I meet a madman or a persecuted drunkard. What are the people doing who are charged to look after my security? What a Prefet de Police doing, his commissaries, his agents, and of what good are the mental prophylactic service and the lunatic asylum?'"