Do you mean in the case of Hochstetter,
Commissioner?
COMMISSIONER. Yes, sir, Madame de Hauteville, Who made the raid on
her apartment?
STROEBEL. The raid?
COMMISSIONER. I hope before you arrested her you informed yourself
exactly with whom you were dealing.
STROEBEL. Certainly ...
COMMISSIONER. ... And the result?
STROEBEL. I ascertained that this woman was violating public
decency.
COMMISSIONER. I am going to ask you, Assessor, as my inferior in
office, to confine yourself to more direct answers, PLEASE. What
did the investigation disclose?
STROEBEL. That she received questionable visits from gentlemen.
COMMISSIONER. Questionable? Then does Schmuttermaier know who
these gentlemen were?
STROEBEL. He does not ...
COMMISSIONER. No? Didn't he investigate a matter which seemed so
questionable to him?
STROEBEL. He just wanted to ascertain that these visits were meant
for Hauteville.
COMMISSIONER. So--? I have some truly competent officials. And who
and what it was did not bother the man at all?
STROEBEL. I myself thought that that would be found out later.
COMMISSIONER. There are certain things in the world you would not
be likely to look for and less likely to find. You have been
treating this thing as though you were dealing with a common
ordinary pickpocket. [To Baron Sckmettau.] You see it is just as I
told you .
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