"Third Degree" Tortures.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1912, Page 4

"Third Degree" Tortures.

A youu. l: man named Theodore returned to his home at Micklcltowu, New York, alter an absence of live mouth.-, to find hi<- two brot/*iers iin<\vv arrest on charges o| niurderiim , him. lie has iiicidentallv furnished a dramatic and illuslra-

ti<m of the ojieratiou of tile I'ainoii"Third Decree" practised li V the American police. The " Thiid !)"- jiree consiVts of torturing prisoiieis liv incessant (jnest ionini', which is often continued nijjht and day until they frmfos to crimes. Kiinuan myt-terioiisly disnppearc<l from home in Noveinher Hie Daily Ma ill. and a few days later the burned bones of a hiuiij' > Inly were disr-ov-cred beneath a lu-ap of cinders near the railway sta'ion at Middletoi\n. The remains wore believed to be tho.se of Kiiriiiiin. wluw; brothers were iin mediately siispcotixi of the |)crpe(ratorn of a horrible crime. >':>in;> time after their arrest the brothers made a detailed confession of the murder. Suddenly their alleged victim appeared alive and well, and stated he had been working; on a farm all the winter in complete ignorance of his brothers' The brothers declared that the police questioned them so savagely that they would have been willing to confeiss to a dozen murders in order t'i Sain an interval of .sleep and respite from constant cross-examination. : ' We were ready," they said. '■ lo ncknowledife as many (.'rimes ; ,v |||~ police desired."