POLICE “PRIEST”
CONFESSION EXTRACTED NEW YORK, Allay: 12.—Clergy of Seattle, Washington, signed a monster petition of protest t d-d ay gigainst the alleged action of police and State troopers in entering prisoners’ cells dressed as priests to extract confessions. They quote the specific case of 72-year-old Mary Eleanor Smith, who confessed to the murder, of James Bassett on Sunday in these circumstances. The clergymen allege that Sergeant Joe McCauley wore a cassock and carried a Bible when he visited the woman, oiTered prayers, then trapped her into making her confession. The Seattle Methodist Ministers’ Association brand these methods as “worse than any third degree.” Mrs Smith said to-day that she thought McCauley was a priest, hut that she had no regrets regarding the confession.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 55, 11 July 1938, Page 4
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