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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,
NEW STREET LAW FAKIR'S - ORDEAL "BY
PLAN.
SAME PUNISHMENT FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
PRISON PENALTY.
NEEDLES.
FAILURE TO CONVINCE 5,000
PARISIANS..
Paris, Dec. 12.
The duel botween the Egyptian fakir Tahra Boy, and Paul Heuze, archenemy of fakirs, spiritualists, and all other parasites on human credulity, as he considers them, took place last night at the Cirque
The Commitee appointed just over a year ago to Inquire into the law concerning street offences has reported to the Home Secretary,
They recommend that the law be-de-París.... altered, so as to:-
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(1) Establish explicit visions, to be uniformly administer ed throughout London, the pro- vinces and Scotland: many general and local enactments to be repented;
(2) Allow of imprisonment for old offenders;
(3) Ensure equal penalties for
men as well as women.
The real victor was neither Tahra Bey nor Houze, but an ex- fikir, Karma, who performed all Tahra Bey's tricks, declaring that there was nothing mysterious about them. A jury of doctora and scientists thereupon decided that Tahra Bey, while phowing proof of great courage in his ex- periments, had done nothing which went beyond the limits of ordinary experience.
A huge crowd had been attract
The Committee submit draft pro- posals of the form which they sug-. gest the new law as to solicitation should take. They suggest the fol-ed by the contest, and clamoured lowing:-
for admission long after the circus was filled. The police were swept. aside and a small riot took place cutside the closed doors. A lamp- post was knocked over, a cafe win- dow broken, chairs and tables des- of women trapped in the crowd troyed, while the frightened crica added to the confusion,
(1) Every person who in any street or public place importunes any person of the opposite sex for Immoral purposes shall be guilty of an offence.
In this section the term "Impur tunes shall be construed as ferring to acts of molestation by ofcisive words or behaviour.
(2) Any person who frequents any streets or public for the pur pose of solicitation so as to con- stitute a nuisance shall be guilty of
an offence:
Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence under this section except on the evidence of one or more of the persons ag grieved.
The Report examines in detail the many aspects of the problem, and the conclusions of the Com- mittee are summarised below:----
Police.
'Insido the circus an audience of about 5,000, which was: a cross between a cup-tle crowd and an election meeting, created almost as much disturbance. The fakir's" manager attempted to make a speech of Introduction, but wan howled down, with cries of "Cut out the talk. We want acts not words."
Lying on Blades:
The fakir therefore began his experiments, He pushed long needles through his cheeks and the muscles of his chest and plunged a stiletto into his neck. He then. "No class of case," says the Re-handed the dagger to Heuze and port, referring to solicitation; "re- invited him to do the same. quires more tact and discretion." Mistakes excite popular indignation in a special degree,
Heuze shook his head, where- upon the audience was in an up- roar, hurling insults and jeers it the fakir's opponent..
But the acquittal of an accused person does not necessarily involve
Tabra Bey then lay down upon any reflection on the police. Con- two steel blades, one supporting versely, a conviction does not neces his neck and the other his ankles, sarily mean that all the actions of the police in the case have been a heavy stone was placed on his chest which an 'assistant broke justified. There may be irregularl-with a sledgehammer. The fakir ties even in bringing a guilty per- none the worse Bave for a red
•son to justice.
imprint on neck and ankles then stretched himself on to a plank of
It la doubtful if the police make more mistakes in this class of of fence than in any other.
Warnings,
The Report emphasises the view that prevention, not detection, is the real objective, Giving of warn ings is praised, and the following Orders laid down for Edinburgh
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nails.
Up to this point the crowd had been overwhelmingly In his favour, but the discovery that he was wearing a leather pad round his middle gave his opponents a chance for jeering. Tabra Bey, nothing daunted, stripped himself
police are quoted with approval completely and lay on the nails. "It must be clearly understood once more amid a scene of indes- that it is the duty of the police in cribable enthusiasm. dealing with prostitutes more to prevent loitering and Importuning than to delect It."
"Of course considerable forbear- ance should be shown by constables in dealing with these unfortunate women, many of whom are greatly to be pitied, and it is only where it is found necessary to ensure obedience to the law that proaccu- tions should follow."
* Rival Efforts, "Away with Heuze," the crowd yelled, the women being especially enthusiastic in their support of the Fakir. Three of them in one of the most expensive boxes rose to their feet and threw him kisses, Heuze attempted to speak, but could not be heard. A number of journalists, growing too excited, had to be cleared off the ring.
"You do what I have just done,”
"Constables should keep in mind that such arrests should only be made as diangrecable necessities re-anid Tahra Bey. luctantly performed because the warning has been disregarded."
Corroboration.
Henze of length managed to say that he was not there to repeat; the fakir's performances but to explain them.
"While we in no way impugn the credibilility of the evidence of the "You daren't do whát Tahra's police, we regard it as desirable done," yelled the crowd, and that wherever possible corrobora-Heuze was silenced again. He tion should be obtained from the finally pushed a needle through public.
his check in lifa turn, and thus ob- "Where it is not possible we retained a hearing for a time. He commend the practice of confront- explained that there were certain, ing the accused at the time of ar- parts of the body which were not rest with the person alleged to have sensitive to puin, and that fakiriam been importaped, and reporting to was merely a matter of training, the court what then passed."
The crowd, however, was still shouting at him to stretch himself on the nails, when Karma entered, "In the region with which we are
supported himself on concerned there is a special sphere blades and lay on the plank of the two of usefulness for women 'police,
"We emphasise particularly the nails as Tabra had done, Karma value of the preventative work announced that he was not a fakir which they are better fitted to per-but an illusionist, and that he was form than men."
Women Police.
Bribery.
a native of Carcassonne,
Tahra retorted that Karma was a fakir, but the fickle crowd had "We believe instances of this now transferred its allegiance, and must inevitably occur. ... We are Tahra was not listened to. not able to suggest any means Paul Heuze was then allowed to whereby this risk can be lessened."make his speech and show n film of his feat of remaining in a coffin for over an hour. After this the burial of Tahra, lost a great deal of its attraction. It was evident that both partisans and opponents; of fakirism remained just as con- vinced as ever in their opinions at the close of the contest,
Plain Clothes Men,
The Committee was assured that the employment of plain clothes police was essential for detection. "But," says the Report, "prevention rather than detection should be the main object,... The objection able element in the employment of plain clothes men is the risk that they may become agents-provoca- tcura."--
Punishment,
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"We recognino the futility of re- peated fines of small amounts,
alternatives-to-fino or Imprison. ment... particularly in the case of young offenders."
Legal Aid.
In our view the maximum penalty
It appears desirable that In ap- for a first offence should be £2. propriate circumstances provision For a second and subsequent of should be made for assisting_ac- fences we recommend increased cused persone who cannot afford penalties, Power of imprisonment legal charges. without the option of a fine should As to appeals, unless the law is be conferred in the case of repeated altered, the right to appeal will offences.
remain practically non-existent for "We are strongly in favour of ad- † poor persons, "and may in some vantage being taken of the various cases lead to serious injustice."
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