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volunteers on the rescue comnlttees.
These committees are compofeu VI
every nationality OF Europe. floiessor
Algani of the Florence observatory,
predicts that seismic activlueS VIII
continue for three years TO come. he
recommends the enforcement OF re-
strictive building laws in the eartn
quake zones of Italy.
King Comforts Wounded
Reggie, Jan. 1.-The king feturn-
ed to the ruins of Reggie today. He
traversed the ruins from one eho 70
the other, comforting the sufferers anu
cheering the rescuers. Al one polnt
his majesty came upon man purlei
up to his waist in the debris. Inc
king encouraged the unfortunate Whlie
the soldiers were digging him out. In
the midst of the efforts at rescue the
man cried, Sire, can wait for, dellv--
erance, but for Gods sake siYe me
food and drink
Children Alive IN RUINS.
1t is still raining today and the odor
from the decomposing bodies is be-
coming increasingly empowering. 1t
is estimated that 5000 injured persons
have been taken out Of the RUNS. me
deaths in Reggie today are placed a.
100000 Large numbers OF cnlldren
have been taken alive from the runs.
Catania and Messina have been dt-
yided into zones and the work OF res
cue in each is under the charge OF
army officers. Very few children nave
been found alive there, Elght nun
dred dead soldiers are under ths
wreckage of the Messna barracks.
The corpses being recovered
throughout the city are mutilated be-
You'd recognition Another town. Cas-
troreale has been added to the list OF
devastated localities Not a house es-
capped. The place had a population II
about 1000
1000 Refugees at Naples
Naples, Jan. 1. = Two thousand per-
sons from the earthquake zone nave
arrived here. All kinds OF public
buildings are being fitted up 10 re-
ceive them. Many of the injured had
to be taken by force to the hospitals,
! becoming frenzied with the idea OF
being compelled to enter the instltu'
tions. Three tank steamers filled with
drinking water have left for Messma
At Taormina, Sicily, where number
of Americans are spending the WIN
ter, it is said the town escaped with
slight damage.
Vice Consul and Family lost
Naples, Jan. lit was learned con.
clusively today that Joseph H. PIERCE,
former American vice consul at Mes
sina and all the members Of his fam
lly lost their lives in the disaster.
Fleet Nears suez.
Suez, JAN j. = The United States
battleship fleet at O'Clock last night
was 619 miles from Suez. The tleet
Is due here Sunday morning.
Canada Gives 100000.
/ Ottawa, Jan. l. = The government
has granted 100000 for the sufferers
OF the earthquake This will be supple
mented by generous contribution:
from unofficial sources.
10000 Dead at Reggie.
Rome, Jan l. An official dis
patch from Reggie says the death lis
is apparently 100000
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

From Thursdays Daily.
Neasham sells the best watches.
Mrs. Mary Peterson of Blakesburg
was in the city shopping and visiting
this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Ruggles of Pack
wood were in the city a short time
this morning en- route to Floris where
thew will visit friends and relatives.
New Years presents at Sargent's.
Mrs. M. A. Harl1ins of Hedrick ar
rived in the city today to Visit her
daughter, Mrs. Clara Hough, ITO Clay
ton avenue.
Mrs. S. Jones of Blakesburg re-
turned home this morning after spend
mo several days in the city visiting
her sister. Mrs. S. Johnson, loe
South Ransom street
From Fridays Daily.
Fountain syringes guaranteed by
Sargent.
John Hull of Douds-Leando, passed
through Ottumwa this morning en-
route to Foster on pusiliese'
s A. Hafias of Stockport, passed
through Ottumwa this morning en-
route to Kirksville, Mo-, on business.
g. p. True of Bonaparte returned
home thsi morning after short bus
mess trip to this city.
New Years post cards at Sargent's.
Mr. and Mrs n. E. Morgan of Bloom.
field. after visit at the Gilbert Tay'
lor home, 113 North Green street, re-
turned to their home this morning.
Thomas Thatcher. pioneer citizen OF
Lancaster, Mo-. is in the city visiting
his daughter, Mrs. James White, 4Ol
Ward street and his sister, Mrs. Fred
Wilcox, 626 East Main street.
Sargent treats everybody right.
Mrs. w. E. Harris and childrenao1
Seymour passed through the city this
morning enroute home after a yisi
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. p. A
Harris in Batavia.
Mrs. Lucinda Short of Hedrick, wht
upon October u, 1908 filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy has asked
Commissioner F. NJ. Hunter for he
final discharge. Mr.. Hunter has Sc
he hearing for January IS.
Mrs. John Hunt of Mystic has re
turned home after spending silor
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'icinity who sent money

Kirkville and vicinity who sent money
to the home.
At the annual meeting of the Kirk
vile Mutual ire and Lightning Insur-
Moore was rejected president, A. w
Abegg secretary, Rev. W. Lee Vincent
treasurer and J. l.. Moore, George
Beck and j. l. Griffith, directors.
There is revival meeting going
on at the Methodist church. conducted
by Rev. J. H. Lewis, the pastor, assist
ed by Miss Fitzsimmons, singing
evangelist. Thus far II have been con
verified.
Mrs. Eliza, SHUTS is very Ill no hopes
are entertained for her recovery. Mrs.
8. A. Coy Of Hitenan and little daugh-
ter and John Suits of Creston and
Frank SHUTS Of Ottumwa are at her
bedside.
Charley Graham Of Newton is at
| home on visit.
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Standard Wants to STAY.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. LIN a
motion for a rehearing in the Mis-
souri, custer suit against it, filed in
the supreme court today, the Standard
Oil company of Indiana asked to be al,
lowed to remain in Missouri SO long as
it conforms to the rules and regula,
tions that may be laid down by the
court.
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kiRKVlLLE.
cemetery

Kirkvfile-H. r. Lemon OF Council
Bluffs, of the Home for Homeless
IChildren and crippled homeless old
Ineople,. .NoHid like to express ms
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I: deaths

RATH-December 81. 1908, at the
home of his parents in Chillicothe:
the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Rath at p. m.
The funeral was held from the resi-
dence at Chillicothe this afternoon at
2 O'Clock. Interment in Chlliicothe
cemetery
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17

promised immunity, but he was let go.
Had it been shown that he was prom
ised immunity his confession, according
to a decision. would not have been
valid.
oearees of the "Third Degree"
There are as many ways of Sweat
ing" a suspect as there arc of choking
n dog to death. Placing the suspect in
n box from which air is excluded and
starving the inmate until he is almost
,razed is one method. Another is 10
give the suspect sailed bread until his
mouth is parched and he becomes fran
tic from the torture. In one case, where
the suspect held out until the patience
of the detectives had been worn to q
FRAGILE, the suspect was placed In the
box barefooted and hot water turned
upon his feet until the suspects agony
put the NEUROLOGICAL story of Tantalus
in the class Of holiday pastimes.
In case that went to the supreme
| court Of Mississippi, in which 1t was
shown that a suspect had been placed
in small box in midsummer and re-
! fused communication with friends or
| permitted 20 employ counsel and where
| the suspect was finally forced to make
! confession. the court held that as the
/ confession was not voluntary it was
not admissible. Although 1t was showl,
that the sweating" in this case was
not as fierce as in some that have beer
reported, the supreme court of the STATE
named said in handing down his deci-
sion.
Such proceedings as this record dis
closes cannot be too strongly denounced
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@HERE is no such term in the
dictionary as third degree
1t Is the coinage OF the police,

"A not of Russia or Spain, but OIL
the police of the United States. From
time to time the public has protested
against 1t. This protest is again In ac-
ton on account of the application or
the degree" to a Chinese suspect held
in connection with the recent murder
in New York city of Elsie Sigel girl
who went into the Chinese quarter of
the city to do missionary work. The
body of the girl was found in trunk
in the room OF q young convert" Leon
Ling, alias William l.. Leon. He es-
capped The fact that the victim was
the granddaughter of General Franz
Sigel, after the war an official of New
York may have caused the detective
bureau of the police department of New
York to accelerate its efforts to get
clews that would enable 1t to solve the
mystery. The detectives lost track of
the Young convert" who, 1t was as
serted at the time. strangled the girl
missionary and "chucked" the body
into a trunk The detectives got on
the trail of suspects, and one Chong
Sing was the result. A tortuous sweat
ing sweating" is the polite
lingo OF the police for third degree
was applied to the suspect until 1t is
asserted he admitted that he peeped
through the keyhole of Leon Ling's
room and saw the body of the victim
on Ling's bed. According to other al
legations, the suspect was told that he
(the suspecD had done the murder.
The Sweating was continued until the
suspect got himself so entangled in his
contradictions that the detectives APP
parently almost forgot that Leon Ling
was in the case.
Hence q resuscitation of the old in
quiry. raised In every mystery in the
annals OF the police, Does sweating
produce trustworthy evidence? Psy-
biologists are united in the opinion
that statements or confessions secured
by such means are likely to be the re-
suits of suggestions from the inquisitor
in perhaps the greatest number of
cases. In the opinion of sorne, the
third degree" Is un-American Out
side OF the police it has no defenders.
Several state legislatures have consid-
cred the question of enactments that
would prohibit such inquistions, In
this respect this country is behind Rus
STA, The third douma passed a law Civ
ing all accused persons the right of
counsel at the preliminary exanlina-
ton" by a magistrate, and this is the
equivalent of the third degree in the
United States. One OF the arguments
against the system in this country is
that it denies to the suspect the priv
ilege of counsel until the much desired
confession" Is obtained and that II
violates the very first principles of the
/ constitution.
The third degree as worked In tbs
/ case of Harry Orchard. who killed
| friend and foe for money. is one of the
! most noted cases in this line. Detective
| Mcfarland who had put the Molly Ma
4 CURES out of business. found the senti-
| mental side of Orchard and playet
upon 1t effectively by painting the hor
| ror of hell and the conditions of Or
chards family until Orchard broke
down and wept. He was SO shattered
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gunboat Castine as parent ship. Dur
ing the lnaneuyers the scout cruisers
Chester, Salem and Birmingham and
the armored cruisers North Carolina,
Montana and New York will join the
battleships. The cruiser Montgomery,
which has been fitted up as torpedo
experimental ship. will also join the
fleet while it is In New England wa
tiers.
After the fleet returns to Hampton
Roads, where it will coal, it will again
put to sea-, and for the first time in
the history OF the navy the firing will
be done on the open sea and in all
conditions Of weather in order to at
tain practice at, as nearly battle con-
ditions as possible. Night firing under
similar conditions will take place. The
two old torpedo boats Nicholson and
5O,Brien have been dismantled an6 will
be prepared as targets There is some
sentiment in the navy which precludes
the sinking of one of its own boats,
even when 1t is done for practice, SO
1t will be arranged that the hulls of
the boats selected for targets will be
filled with cork, and this will keep
them afloat after they have been rid
died by projectiles. Battleships run
ming at varying speeds will fire at the
targets while they are being towed at
different speeds.
IT has not been definitely arranged
but it is expected that President Taft
will review the fleet some time during
its summer movements and Secretary
of the Navy Meyer is also expected &c
visit tho ShipS before they return tC
Hampton Roads.
Only twelve Of the battleships of the
fleet made the trip around the world
the other four are new vessels. This
older ships have been fitted out witt
the newly adopted fire control mast
the Inverted wastebasllet" 1t is called
in the navy. These masts will b.
tested for the first time during The
operations In the next few weeks.
important Work of the Cruise.
The present maneuvers are the mos
important that have taken place in the
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DER CASE.

with arsonl, the Chief justice stopped
the evidence, dismissed the case and
said to the officer:
If you take my advice you won't cross
examine persons who are placed in the
same position as this man was.
Remember this--it IS the great principle
of our law-although thes police are to
certain extent bound to do their bes. to
find out who has committed a crime, they
must be most careful that the questions
which they put 10 an accused person do
not enter into the nature of q hostile in-
They must not go one lota
beyond the proper and right questions
Another interesting case came before
Mr. Justice Bucknitl Of England. a
statement had been obtained by po-
lice officer With the object of eiiciting
material upon which TO base an accusa-
ton. His lordship said he had always
allowed Mr.. Justice Caves ruling on
this point to be his guide. Mr.. Justice
Cave said. lit would be monstrous II
the law permitted {; police officer to
twitnout any one being present . ses
how the matter was conducted) put
prisoner through an examination and
then produce the effect Of that. ea-
animation against him. a police
man was not TO discourage a state
.ment and certainly not to encourage
one. II was no business of his to put
Questions to prisoners
In5this; country h.. law makes 1t diff
ficult to retract or invalidate confess
| sion 1t has been decided in many
Estates that the adlntssibiIity of confess
| sion is to be determined by the court.
/ the weight by the jury
/ ALoNzo SLOAN.
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SQUARES Of the target counting, every
shot piercing the drab obstacle Will
make good. One ship after another
will pour it's broadsides and individual
shots into the target. and the ship
making the most hits will be the vic
tor. While the gunncrs will strive
with energy to plant their shots into
the moving target during battle prac-
tice ii will not be strange il they try
to make brilliant scores during rec
ord shooting at the smaller mark,
What 1t Costs.
1t requires efficiency in mathematics
to figure out the cost of such maneu-
vers as are now in progress. The
ordnance bureau this year has an APP
preparation of nearly $4,000,00O. 1t is
quite likely that much of this will be
shot away between now and the prac-
tice that is to wind UP operations In
the West Indies. OF the appropria-
ton mentioned. S2,750.00O is for am
munitlon and kindred supplies for the
ships, s650.OOO for smokeless powder
and 100000 for torpedoes and appli-
ances. To the man for peace at all
hazards this looks like a lot of money
but IL such one will stop to con-
slider that the expenditure OF this
amount may save from destruction
battleships worth three or four times
as much and cities n thousand times
as valuable the conclusion is in.
cvitable that the expenditure is wei
worth making.
| The Battleships by Divisions.
During the maneuvers the battleshll
feet will be divided into the following
j divisions: 81
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navy since it went to war with Spain.
Landsmen, wives and sweethearts who.
have friends and loved ones in the At
lantic fleet will probably not hear
much from the battleships, except what
they read in the newspapers, for some
time. From rear admiral down the line
to the most insignificant individual in
the service all will be kept going
some" until after frost. and even then
when the fleet Is in West Indian wa
tiers tidings will be few and far apart.
For some time there have been wide
ly divergent opinions about the merits
of The scout cruisers. Their efficacy
will be thoroughly tested during the
present movements. For the first
time moving targets on the rolling
deep will be used; the actual value of
submarines IN attack and defense will
be tried out as never before; the fit
ting little torpedo boats will be given
an opportunity to supplement the
shower achievements of such Dread
noughts as the New Hampshire and
Mississippi.
1t is the opinion among naval cx-
pertS that the present maneuVers Will
more clearly demonstrate tho worthi-
ness OF the modern ships in the fleet
| than did the globe girdling voyage
which attracted the attention of all
| sea fighting nations. The $4,000 mile
jaunt made u remarkably fine peace
picture 1t proved the quality of the
machinery within the ships hulls, the
| fiber of the seamanship of officers and
men, and also showed what a grand
combination of steel and brain, bronze
and Drawn could be placed on dress
I parade. This time the ships are being
/ tested for war. There will be no oc-
4 casion for cheers, for receptions OF
4 holiday hurrahs. This is a cruise fol
records. The crews are TO demon
4 strate to their officers that they car
4 send big bullets faster and stratghtel
than any other sea fighters in the
i world 1t is to show to the satisfac-
I ton of the president and the secretary
of the navy that the ships can be
handled in the stress of battle as M
\ other navy has ever done. Such re.
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suits are expected minus the slaughter
and damage, as would be expected II
the ships We're in actual service.
In order that every ship may be put
on its best metal there will be no
.'rainbow reports" from correspondents.
The real record OF target practice, as
well as the behavior of the ships and
their guns. will be transmitted in Of
fetal reports to official circles only.
No Invitations will be sent to attaches
of foreign legations. About all that
our foreign friends will know will be
what they read in the newspapers, and
that, as before intimated, will be IN
the briefcst wording that the navy can
employ. If the flagship beats any
other ship at target practice or il the
Ohio puts the Idaho in disgrace IN
hitting a long gray target on the heav-
ing ocean, the bare facts will be given
to officials at Washington, and II VIII
be so short that it will not weary the
reader. And even this Will be more
than some foreign countries permit.
The secretivcness of foreign NATIONS
respecting their naval plans is proven
bal. An officer Of the navy IN speak
ing Of this fact said: We know no
more about Germany's naval progress
than we know about her airships. AND
Germany is a good deal like Japan
about such matters. We are totally in
/ the dark about the Yankees or the
far cast. They are probably practic-
I ing, and practicing hard, but we never
| hear the boom of Il gun or see the hlnt
of a figure. We know that just before
the decisive sea battle with Russia
the entire japanese fleet was engaged
| in practice. but no information Of any
value ever leaked out regarding the
real achievements of their gunners OF
| the efficiency Of their guns. England
/ and Italy are Just at present making
4 great strides toward target perfection
| and no effort is made to conceal the
\ fact or to hide the place where the
\ trials are held. Like the United
| States, however, no information OF
value to opponents is given out fol
publication by any naval power
4 The average landsman will get q