Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-02
1lcient evidence. merely Is satisfy pop


ncient evidence. merely to satisfy pop
ular clamor.
The fellow has been subjected TO rigid
| examinations and he may have said
many things that are not strictly true,
| Under the persuasive urgings q ne
torture chamber of Toiden days men
and women did SLY things that lock im-
| possible to modern readers. Chung SIN
| has not been subjected to torture, but
\ he has been given the third degree
OF what nature this vas, the dispatches
have not stated fully. He was Kept
awake for so hours at stretch under a
! fire of merciless questioning, and ur-
der the nervous condition in which he
must have been he has told several
stories. What else could be expected?
In d recent number Of the Saturday
| Evening Post George Randolph Chester
gives an idea of what the third de-
! gree" in some instances, is, He, says
only as last resort they called
In BiXby and Tressler. the Two men
from the Central ONCE, big, brawny
to the popular conception q a sie eilt y
their tactics being always and only 70
bully n, suspect. whether guilty or
NOT, into admission. s
..Bixby was the man who now took
the initiative In the delicate cross ex-
amining of Kelsey. '
Look here, Kelsey, he hoarselS
raped out. we got the goods on YOU.
and this things gone far enough. we
know you leaked. But we want to
know how you leaked. My partner and
] have been tracing YOU, and we
know all about you we know your re-
cord. Now give up
z KELSEY turned With tlaming eyes 10
this new evaporation. a5
I Where do sou get in on this? he
demanded.
IF We'll show you whore we get in,
YOU interposed Tressler, calling
kelsey a name so viciously foul that ! t
brought the little Irishman to his feet
with frothing lips.
Just as he was about to make a
5lunge Bixby, ready and anxious for
Just such demonstration, grabbed
him from behind, pinioning his arms,
and forced him struggling back into
his scat.
LET me loose!" shrieked Kelsey. I
won't stand q name like that from any
man on earth!
4lFa,f' won anu ,t5lNUy CdlleSl
a worse one, if possible.
with a cry ofspostiye agony Kelsey
struggled to turn upon this new tor.
mentor. and Tressler. as an ingenious
distraction, sheAped upon him a new,
insult. The admirable in
5tention of all this merciless batting
was to frenzy Kelsey so that he would,
in defiance confess what no had done
and with alternate insult and innuen-
Il, t|,s>, Ntat II
stood in his eyes and he was a shriek-f
Ing, sobbing fury. I. But to every ques-
ton put to him by HanWortfy, who
sat entirely unulovedT-though Millet.
grasplng his chair arms until his
ached, was whitc-faced and
sick Kelsey returned the same stub
No he had not told No. and no,
and no again.
7..'sAt last, finding these tactics una
Vallable, Tfessler tried another one or,
the gentle means OF the third degree
Standing squarelNI in, front of Kelsey,
who was still held back III his chair
by Bixby, he said with ia DANGEROUS l''ls
glitter: y y ~ ,t.s
Now, this is your last chance, Kel.}
sey. Are you going to confess? 8
No! shFieked Kelsey. y
Then take that! and with his tre-,,
mcndous' sdst = tess1er struck Kelsey a.
blew on the, cheelSsthaI,ncar-
ly broke lbs ia d " hat top pied,
off his ciiair55 to the floor. rs N
An exclatna ionf of horror broke
from NJ lles,ss bntst 5t anNertllS sat ,in 2;
moved. NfilIet Jumped Between them
but sTressler, with ii brawny hand,
thrust him back. a
Wen get to this now 3orSsweil kill
him. Kel$ay did you leak III
& II elseS.y rising slowly to "a Sitting
position on the floor, limp and weak
and holding his hand to- his cheek.
was dumb suntil Hanworthy repeated
the question:; then with deadly
.quietness he muttered:
: Yes, 5$
s...I told you so;' triumphed Bixby
painting" b, # {Is
We know not whether similar
methods have been employed in the,
case OF Chung Sin. If they have, III
would not be strange If he had told
any kind of story. to end the
agony. II he is guilty, he must. not.
be allowed to escape, but he should
not be convicted because he is a
.Chinaman, or because Leon Ling can
not be found.