Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05

A StenOgrapler summoned and McCilOin told
his story When it had been transcribed he signed
It. Most of it is related The party had tried that
evening to "him-ham" Hanier The attempt failed
because Hanier had been trcked by the same game
only little while previously. This time he ordered
the party out under threat of calling the police.
The quartet decided to return after the saloon
closed and work revenge Hanier for not falling
into their trap. They broke in the front door and
proceeded to upset the place. reckless whether Hanier
interfered or not AS they heard him NOV
Ing overhead, however, Moran Morrissey and Ban
field started to get away McGloin did not propose
to be frightened off easily and stepped into the
nan to await Haniers appearance. He fired as soon
as Haner appeared at the top of the stairway. He
declared that he did not aim to KILL but the ball
entered Haniers heart
When McGloin had been returned to his cell after
the confession the other men taken singly be-
fore the Inspector. The confession was read to
them and they in turn confessed. Banfeld proved
little obdurate but that had been anticipated and
ne was held to the last He could not stand against
three confessions, and his made the fourth and
completed the police end of the case.
That night Inspector Byrnes gave out the story
He did not tell everything related but the confessions
were shown, so that the reporters got all that the
prisoners had said The murder occurred on De-
cember 20. Public excitement it lasted fort
night. January 81 the date of the arrests and
confessions 1t was published widely that the police
had worked the third degree to procure the con-
fessions 1t had not been thought wise to say any
thing of the device by which McGloin had been
seated to face the court which his COMPANIONS
marched the police not being in the habit then
more than now of exploiting the employed to
gain results. The confessions omitted nothing
the police thought the public wanted.
There no legal proof on the DAY of the arrests
that these were the men who had visited Haner's
place From the beginning it had been believed the
murder was committed by young belonging in
that part of the city. 1t not such work as tried
criminals would have done. The task was TO locate
the men. Circumstances, many of them trivial point
ed to these four. The in the saloon when Nc
Glon scoffed at the reward notice the cuminat-
ing circumstance If any of the four at the time
Of the arrest had been faced with the charge MUIR
der there would have been danger that the others
would have heard of it and all would naturally have
braced themselves with denials.
Against such denials evidence must have been
wholly circumstantial and not strong enough to
vince jury. The Inspector planned to surprise Nc
Glon into confession, not alone by what said
also by making McGlon his companions under
arrest. Thus filed with fear he easily fell into the
trap set for him. The other three had reason to
suppose that there anything in the crossing of
the court beyond transfer of cells. They could not
know that McGlon them, much less that they
were paraded on his account McGloin's confession
came when he felt himself caught. Then he
mainly anxious to save his skin.
In February the trials occurred McGloin
victed of murder in the first degree and hanged in
March. The other three went to prison for twelve
years.
The Case of Unger.
The third degree had an airing when Edward
Unger confessed to the murder of August Bohe
Unger kept saloon, and Bohle, butcher, resided
with him. The killing occurred in a fight. Then
Unger cut up the body, packed it in a trunk, sent
it to Baltimore and threw the head into the East
River Part of the body was wrapped in coat, from
which Unger had neglected to remove the business
card of a Brooklyn butcher with whom Bohle had
relations The police did not make public any infor
nation about the card. Unger protested his nno
cence until transferred to a cell containing the sofa
on which Bohe had fallen in the fight and the knife
and saw used to dismember the body That sight set
him bowling and he told his story. The public knew
nothing of the scene in the cell Full details of the
killing were issued, but enough withheld to
of detection to feed sensation for quite while
Unger made out a case of selfdefence and received
a sentence of twenty years.
There was much talk of the third degree when
Chastine Cox confessed to the murder of Mrs Jane
l.. De Forest Hull DR.. Hull, the victims husband,
fell under suspicion. At the inquest a witness ap-
peared who declared that while seated in Bryant
Park one evening he had been approached by aged
man (whom he identified as DR.. HulD who produced
S16O and promised to give it to him if he would kill
Mrs Hull The police got from DIR. Hull list OF
Mrs Hulls missing jewelry, some of which they i'm
mediately recovered in pawnshops where negro had
left it, They noted that there had been no forceful
entry into the house, and Cox, who had been ser
want in the house, was missing.
They traced Cox to Boston. When he arrested
there Mrs Hulls watch was found on him. Cox con-
fessed without pressure The motive behind the tes
timony at the Coroners was never investigated, but
the witness was convict, ana he mad been procured
by a person whom the police habitually distrusted
Cox suffered the death penalty.
These are sample instances in which the third
degree had conspicuous public parade Exact nara
ton of the means by which the several confessions
were obtained seemed inexpedient to the police i'll
their accounts of current work. Hence at such times
inference and imagination had plenty of rope
fingers transfer to cell containing the implements
of his butchery may be noted as the only instance in
which terror was invoked force confession As
to charges of prolonged cruelty, the law entities
every prisoner to a prompt hearing before magis-
trate who may discharge send to prison to await
action by higher authority police custody being thus
very brief
detective whose reputation became interna
tiopal through his service with the New York police
makes this statement on the subject
"Take my word for it that the third degree is
meaningless applied to methods in this city.
Success in detective work implies training which
a.. unt In Ia Of
criminals are to be learned only at close range
nv association with them. When detective learns
them the scene and outward circumstances of
crime enable him to judge by what class of criminal
if was committed. Then he knows how and where
to push his search. He has problem to solve which
habit has made professional
"A detective of strong will and clear head will
outmatch any criminal He has the tremendous adj
vantage of being single minded in his work. If he
needs to be adrot in questions, with the view of not
disclosing at first precisely what IS wanted ne will
soon wear down tile criminal whom he ordinarily
meets for the criminal thus questioned has all the
things he has done buzzng in the top Of his
head, and that tires him.
Detection of crime in this city has come from