Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-10-05
CHAPTER VlII-continued.

Howard was at no time an athlete,
and now, contrasted with the burly
policeman, a colossus in strength, he
seemed like a puny boy. His cringing'
frightened attitude, as he looked up IN
the captains bulldog face, was pathet'
&c. The crowd Of ~bystanders could hard
" contain their eagerness to take In
every detail Of the dramatic situation.
The prisoner was sober by this time
End thoroughly alarmed.
what do you want me for?" he
cried. 81 haven't done anything. The
mans dead, but I didn't kill him"
Shut your mouth" growled the
captain.
Dragging Howard after him, he
made his way to the elevator. Throw
ing his prisoner into the cage, he
turned to give orders to his subord'
Rmate.
'Maloney, you come with me and
bring officer Delaney" Addressing the
other men, he said: you other fellers
look after things down here. Don't
let any of these people come upstairs"
Then, turning to the elevator boy, he
gave the command: up with her"
The elevator, with its passengers,
shot upward, stopped with a jerk at
hhe fourteenth floor, and the captain
once more laying a brutal hand on
Howard, pushed him out into the cor
kidor.
]. it could be said of Capt. Clinton
that he had any system at all, 1t was
10 be as brutal as possible with every
body unlucky enough to fall into his
hands. Instead of regarding his pris
Dners as innocent until found guilty
as they are Justly entitled to be re
Earded under the law, he took the di
eectly opposite stand. He considered
all his prisoners as guilty as hell unit
they had succeeded in proving them
selves innocent. Even then he hat
bis doubts. When a jury brought II
verdict Of acquittal, he shook hi
head and growled. He had the great
est contempt for a jury that would &C
auit and the warmest regard for a tur,
which convicted. He bullied and ma.
treated his prisoners because he firm
h believed in undermining their mo-
ii and physical resistance. When b
Aepriving them of sleep and food, b
hhoking them, clubbing them an
frightening them he had reduce
Them to a state Of nervous terror, t
the border Of physical collapse, b
knew by experience that they woul
no longer be In condition to withstan
his merciless cross-examinations. D
moralized, unstrung, they would BLU
out the truth and so convict then
selves. The ends Of justice would thu
be served.
Capt. Clinton prided himself on II
thorough manner in which he conduC
ed these examinations of persons u
der arrest. 1t was a laborious ordes
but always successful. He owed h
present position on the force to Il
skill with which he browbeat his pr
oners into confessions" With b
third degree" he arrived
results better and more quickly Thu
In any other way. All his conviction
mad been secured by them. The pre-
and meddling b%usybodies called b
system b~arbarous, a revival of the Q
time torture chamber. What did
care what the people said as long
ne convicted his man? Wasn't til
what he was paid for? He raj the
&c find the murderer, and he was
ing to do It.
He pushed his way into the apa
ment, followed closely by Maioney a
the other policemen, who bragg
nleng the unhappy Howard. The de
mar still lay where he had fall
cant. Clinton stopped down, but ma
no attempt to touch the corpse, me
II satisfying himself hat Underwc
was dead. Then, after a casual sur
n the room, he said to his sergeant
we won't touch a thing, Malon
M ne coroner arrives. He'll be b
- nInate. and hen give the Or