The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
The San Francisco sund'

case suppose Banheld ana the otieiS soy ~ -
do?"
The question was timed with reference to the
crossing of the court by Banheld which occurred
exactly as planned. McGloin flung himself to the
floor, clasped the Inspector about the knee anu
cried:
Il give up, Inspector 1t is an true But save me,
save me-" He completely broken and IN frenzy
Get back into your chair. McGlon," was the re-
ply. Il don't know what can do, but II you are
prepared to make statement will submit Il . .ne
district attorney. 1t will be tor hrc % oeelue-
McGlon's Confession
A stenographer was summoned and MeGloin told
his story When it had been transcribed ne signed
it. Most of it is related The party had tried that
evening to .himfam' Hanier The attempt failed
because Hanier had been tricked by the same game
only little while previously Tins time ne oragIea iiss
the party out under threat OF calling the ponce
The quartet decided to return after the saloon was
closed and work revenge on Hanier TOR not faiiing
into their trap. They broke in the front door ana
proceeded upset the place reckless whether Haner
lntertered or not As soon as they heard MIN nov
ing overhead however Moran MorIlssey S anu Lras D
to be frightened of easily and stepped INTO the
hall to await Haners appearance lie hred as soon
Haner appeared at the top OF the Stairway lie
declared that he did not aim to kill, but the Dali
entered Haniers heart.
When McGloin had been returned to his cell after
the confession the other taken s1ngly be-
fore the Inspector. The confession was read to
them and they in turn confessed. Banheld proved
"a little obdurate but that had been anticipated and
he held to the last. He could stand against
three confessions and his own made the fourth and
completed the police end of the
That night Inspector Byrnes gave out the story
He did tell everything related but the confessions
prisoners had said. The murder occurred on De
cember g. Public excitement over it lasted fort
confessions. 1t published widely that the police
had worked the third degree to procure the CON-
fess1ons. 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
were marched the police not being in the habit then
more than now. OF exploiting the means employed TO
gain results. The confessions omitted nothing con-
cerning the murder, and that was the story which
the police thought the public wanted
There no legal proof on the day of the arrests
that these were the men who had visited Haniers
murder was committed by young men belonging in
that part OF the city 1t was not such work as tired
the Circumstances, many of them trivial point
ed to these four The scene in the saloon when Nc
Glon scoffed at the reward notice was the culnat-
ing circumstance If any of the four at the time
OF the arrest had been faced with the charge of mur
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 strong enough to
vince jury. The Inspector planned to surprise Nc
Gloin into confession. not alone by what said but
also by maxi making S SNeGlon see see IN his eompa9ns mo under
trap set for him The other three had
suppose that there was anything IN the crossing of
the court beyond a transfer of cells They could not
know that McGIoin saw Them much less that they
were paraded on his account MeGoins confession
came when he felt himself caught Then he
mainly anxious to his skin.
In February the trials occurred McGlon con-
victed of murder in the first degree and hanged in
March The other three went to prison for II years.
The Case of Unger
The third degree had an airing when Edward
Unger confessed to the murder of August Bohle
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 wrapped in coat from
which Ungsr had neglected to remove the business
card of Brooklyn butcher with whom Bohle had
uOt u77ke info
nation about the card Unger protested his inno-
cence until transferred to cell containing the sofa
which Bohle had fallen in the fight and the knife
ano saw used to dsmember the body That sight set
him bowling and he told his story The public knew
killing were issued, but enough was withheld as to
of detection feed sensato- for quite while
Unger made out case of self-defense and received
a sentence of 20
There puch talk of the third degree when
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
whom he identified Dr. Hull. who produced
$l60 and promised to give it to him ii he would kill
Mrs Huls missing jewery, some Of which thew inn n
mediateiy recovered IN pawnshops where negro had
entry into the house, and Cox, who had been SER
want in the house. missing
They traced Cox to Boston. When he was arrested
there Mrs Hulfs watch found him Cox con
fessed without pressure The motive behind the tes-
tmony at the coroners inquest investigated
but the witness convict and had been procured
by person whom the police habitually distrusted
Cox suffered the death penalty.
These sample instances in which the third
degree had conspicuous public parade Exact narra-
ton of the by which the several confessions
obtained seemed inexpedient the police in
their accounts of current work Hence at such times
: inference and imagination had plenty of rope
Ungers transfer to cell containing the implements
OF his butchery may be noted as the only instance in
which terror invoked to force confession AS
to charges of prolonged cruelty the law entities
every prisoner to prompt hearing before maeis-
to -
action by higher authority police custody being thus
very brief
detective whose reputation became interna
tional through his service with the New York police
makes this statement the subject: