The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-25

and tells Mr.. A that the chief wants
to see G (another suspect
Now. there are several small rooms
at police headquarters. The first man
down goes with his prisoner in one of
the small rooms. The other officer, who
arrives an hour later, sits with his
prisoner in the main Office, where he
can see everybody walking in and out.
Ones does not know that the other is
there. We notify the chief that the sus-
poets have arrived. He may say:
Which do you think will do the talk
ing?' Mind you, the chief of detectives
has to depend to a certain extent upon
the timber that he has surrounded him
self with. and your judgment must
amount to something or you would not
be a stick CT that aforesaid timber Now
that feeling, J am the boss here makes
it easy for tie chief to act the part.
His position does not depend upon send
ing tive innocent men to jail; neither
does it require him to string them up
by the thumbs, because we all have
peace Of mind, and a man who has
ability enough to become chief of police
or chief of detectives would not like
to have that peace of mind disturbed by
doing something brutal.
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"He invites one of these men in this
Office after they have sat outside a
few hours. He and the suspect are
alone. He sits there behind his desk
which is placed between two windows,
and he wears his gold lace coat and
gold shield. There are pictures on the
wall, probably representing some GRIM
inal act; the chair is so arranged that
when the suspect sits down the light
from both windows hits him square in
the face. and the chief, whose back is
toward the light, can see every twitch
of his face, CULVER of his chin. shifting
of the feet, or movement of the hands
in fact, there sits the man that if he
has a guilty knowledge Of that which
the chief asks hiTn-well, I Will leave
it for the reader to say whether the
guilty man, placed in that position
who would not show some evidence OF
guilt, would not be a wonderful man.
I never saw anyone who was able tC
describe that evidence of guilt on q
mans face, but it is there. Evidence
of innocence is shown equally as wei
by the innocent man; an experienced
detective can detect that.
The chief does not go at the sus-
pect with a stick. should he, observe
evidence as to his guilt. With the
chiefs knowledge as to how the crime
was committed, and who was there al
the time, he must lead the suspect into
conversations and the more he talks
the worse he is off. The chief asks
him this and that. He will finally get
him tied up. He will ask him about
his partner in crime, say a lot of things
as to why the other fellow should say
this, that or the other thing about him
what reason does he assign for that;
Why does he say such a. thing about
you? You have always been friends
haven't your When he gets answers
to these he has got as far as he
thought proper with the first man. He
presses the button. A clean-lookiua
man appears in uniform and stands il
the position of attention.
The chief remarks: Take this man
outside and bring 3 upstairs G is
taken out and passed through the room
where 3 sits; that is the first that L
sees of c, and that is the first that
c sees Of B. They are not allowed tC
communicate, and what information
the chief got from c he uses on B.
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Now, this is all done so quickly thai
if B is guilty he will be in anything
but an easy frame of mind. The chief
starts in on another tack. He places
B in the chair that has been vacated
by c. The information he has may bC
On family, religion, drinking or sOcia
matters. You see, If the first man wa:
willing to protect himself or his com
panion he would have no hesitancy ir
discussing other matters that had nc
bearing on the case, and when hs
| throws a lot of that stuff against 2
man whose mind has been already. up-
set from what he has unexpectedlN
seen, the man is very liable to tel
something more. Now it is always tC
be remembered that the chief is the
stronger mind. Should 3 not break
down-yOu want to note that the mer
~ and q !,
chief only wants to see them, and
as lar as we got, all he has done is tC
see them in a nice, gentlemanIy way
He presses the button and asks the at.
tendant to send 9 in with the stem.
Ographer.
This is done in the presence of B
VINO IS Just going out and hears tho
order. Now c comes upstairs again
wondering what the other fellow has
said about him. He had seen him ar
hour or two ago. They have been sit.
ting at police headquarters without c
bite to eat and just nothing to do but
think and worry. What do you sup
pose is C's frame Of mind?
THE chief talks to c about things
that B had said, and if it does not
bring about good results he sends fol
B once again. If the chief of detec-
tives has not discovered by that time
that they have guilty knowledge he
can call them in his Office and say tC
them: Gentlemen, I brought you two
here for the purpose of giving you ar
examination, more in justice to your
selves than otherwise; [ can see yoU
nave no knowledge of the crime. and
l will so inform Mr.. A.
IF, on the other hand. one soueaIs
on the other, or they both suueal or
themselves, then we have given them
a degree with success. But should they
be guilty and not make a statement
against each other, still, with the op-
portunity that the chief had, and with
his knowledge of criminals WAYS and
napltS, he could instruct his men tC
look after those two men and never
mind the rest, till they were run down
That's the third degree, rs it has beer
worked for years. There may have
been cases of brutality but this /,
mostly done by green coppers at the
station houses. A good chief does MOI
need to do anything but use his hea6
and place to break down the best Of
them"
Kindrad Souls