Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-14

to make me tell, was the Sluppoih reply of the thief who sat nursing bleeding nose.
 There aint, eh?' was th. si8nlh- cant reply, and again the official hst shot out and again the thief who wouldn't talk was knocked down. A little later still another detective was ! called by the lieutenant.
 Spirit Finally Broken.
 See if you can get - to talk to 1 you, was the order The men Ill the I front office smiled, as the method Of persuasion to be employed was known. Again the thief refused to talk, and with much profanity defed the bulls to do their worst, Again he was beat en, this time worse than before. The three beating the first day failed to break the spirit of the accused. That night he went supperless and sleep l less, for as soon as he was caught dOzing a man was sent in to interview him. The next day, nerveless from hunger, thirst loss of sleep and phy- sical pain from the beatings of the day before, the thief ceased to defy the edtectives and told at least a part of what he knew.
 The late Inspector John Shea, from the time he became a commanding or ficer in the Chicago police department, was known as the most ardent belieV- CT in the third degree" and the most vigorous and original administrator of that remarkable police institution. Jack" Shea was a man of tremendous physical strength. Temperamentally he was queer mixture of brutality and ender-heartedness. In his deal l ings with criminals he showed little mercy. He believed that the end us- ! tified the means ill handling law i breakers of certain class. His name was signal for terror among thieves 1 and so we'll established was his repu- i tation for conferrin@ the third de- i gree" that criminals who had resisted other officers efforts to get them to to Shea's office before the inspector laid a hand on them. One of Shea s 1 favorite features of the degree was mildly to ask a question. and if the victim would not answer, the inspec- tor grabbed him by the coat collar lifted him suddenly out of his chair and jammed him back into it with enough force often to break the chair
 Who was in the Patterson job with you2" he asked the burglar.
 Nobody, protested the witness.
 tppl, ing Chair Method.
 II jog your memory for you, said Shea, iamming the witness not only into but through q chair to the floor
 Don't you remember noW2"
 "l was alone, persisted the fellow
 You've got an awful bad memory, ain't Nou?. blandly remarked Shea, picking up the fellow and slamming him down into another chain. This piece of furniture was stronger than the first, and stood the strain better than did the prisoner. From one chair into another the inspector damned the prisoner, the furniture and the man s bones creaking with each slam.
 s1s your memory any better now?' inquired the inspector after a few in effectual attempts to get answers to his questions. The successive shocks, it seemed, had revived his power of recollection, and Shea acquired some valuable information about other criminals Whether this chair treat if intellectual. it would be only the fOrerunner of other features of the degree, resulted in squeezing out the desired information does not matter. Shea almost always got the informa- ton he went after. His reputation among criminals was such that in an- 1 been beaten and otherwise maltreated by subordinate officers without effect at once agreed to talk when he was taken into the inspectors office and the door locked.
 In Case It's Woman.
 \ woman who was arrested on the South Side on suspicion of having bought some stolen jeWelry was thrown into a cell at Harrison street.
 ITO a woman she said the ord- nary treatment at Harrison street is third degree enough-that is if received the ordinary treatment The cell was horribly foul A gutter, or open drain, runs through the backs / of all the cells and at night dozens of rats raced up and down this drain i and prowled the floors of the cells. I sometimes almost believed the po- !