"It is a proverb," he said, "that the French police are the best in the world.

And the police were not over well pleased, and the rest of the folk in court were, to say the least, a little mystified, when Mr. Lindsey asked a few questions of two witnessesof whom Chisholm was one, and the doctor who had been fetched to Crone's body the other.

"But the Scotland Yard police are a suspicious lot, and it is necessary for me to have further information in order to convince themif I am to help you as you wish.

The police are Englishmen and good fellows, and they accept a situation which would rouse any continental gendarme to heroic indignation.

The police were here a quarter of an hour ago."

I agree too that a sudden withdrawal of the military and the police will be a disaster if we have not acquired the ability to protect ourselves against robbers and thieves.

You know what fools the police are; they'll think you've murdered the captain and hidden his body under the boards.

Yet the League of Truth in Berlin has consistently dragged the Stars and Stripes in the mire, and that in a country which boasts that the police are not only omniscient but omnipotent.

From words he let drop they all seemed to 'ave the idea that the police was arter 'im, and Mrs. Cook was just asking 'im for wot she called the third and last time, but wot was more likely the hundred and third, wot he'd done, when there was a knock at the front door, so loud and so sudden that old Cook and young Bill both cut their mouths at the same time.

The police had been unable to trace any relatives, or, indeed, any nearer connections than casual acquaintances, fellow-clubmen, and so on.

The police are too often a source of annoyance, and become extortionate robbers, instead of the protectors of the poor.

The police are not a speculative body.

" "If we adopt the indicated course, there will be an end forever to this hole-and-corner business which so hampers us, we will be able to work in the open, the police will become our tools rather than weapons in the hands of our enemies; our power will be without limits, Soviet Russia itself must bow to our dictation.

I bet the police are lookin' for him right now.

From taking a bottle of beer or a slice of pie, to telling one where one might or might not live, the police were autocrats in that neighborhood.

But the bad police of the country was another obstacle to improvements; and rendered all communication dangerous, and all property precarious.

From words he let drop they all seemed to 'ave the idea that the police was arter 'im, and Mrs. Cook was just asking 'im for wot she called the third and last time, but wot was more likely the hundred and third, wot he'd done, when there was a knock at the front door, so loud and so sudden that old Cook and young Bill both cut their mouths at the same time.

The police and I were old friends; they had so often assisted me, that I was not afraid to pay them in kind, and accordingly agreed to take charge of the case, still retaining their aid, should I require it.

" "My dear colleague," said I, "Bedeau has proved that the police are blockheads.

He soon comes to feel that the police are his natural enemies and his chief business is to keep from getting caught.

These police are excellent specimens of what can be made of the Negro, or half-Negro, if he be but first drilled, and then given a responsibility which calls out his self- respect.

"The police of this town are a fine set of men.

This playing police is dull business.

A gentleman afterwards asked me whether, in my travels through France, I had not observed that the police was a mere political agent, established for the purpose of strengthening the hands of the government, and not, as in England, intended for the protection of the people?

In Paris the police is the providence of people who have lost any thing.