Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1911-07-06
tBy National Socialist Press)

tby NdNloHdl OOClailht ITtbsl
Los Angeles. Cal. June 2s-"we
are not interested in the Caplan af-
fair" was ALL that Clarence Darrow
would say about the reports Of the
arrest OF a man inEngland
IL has been believed in Los Angeles
for some weeks that Burns would
await the proper moment for drama
tic effect and then attempt TO make
a sensation by springing an arrest
Confessions" and identifications
will be the next step in the latest de-
velopment OF the Mcnamara case.
The defense is paying little attention
TO stories that come from England
where Burns is with competent press
agents who will take care of the pub.
licity end of his manoeuvres.
There has been a strong revulsion
of feeling on the part Of the public
during the last few days on account
OF the III treatment OF Mrs ortle Nc
Manigal, wife of the self alleged
dynamiter. The Burns operatives
subjected the frail woman to the
brutal third degree" In an ante
chamber OF the grand jury room on
the third day of an Intellectual in
QUESTION.
The whole cruel. inhuman perform
snce was deliberately planned with
the intention and hope Of breaking
the woman down and forcing her
TO make a statement supporting the
alleged confession of her husband.
You'll never leave the state II you
don't come through with the state
ment Wei send you to San Quentin
penitentiary II you don't do as We tell
you. is what the Burns operatives
roared at the shrinking trembling
woman.
II have nothing to tell. want
to go TO my babies. They are waiting
for me. oh. please let me go to
them" pleaded the woman.
"You can't go out of here till you
answer the questions. We viii never
let YOU go n you don't confirm ortie's
story"
Beaten, crushed. sobbing and
pleading the woman looked out the
window at the bleak walls and barred
windows where she was to be incar-
cerated She loked into the brutal
faces OF the threatening operatives"
and tainted.
II took the prison physician half
an hour 10 revive the victim OF de-
tective brutality and the detectives
wanted TO go on with their sweating
process but were prevented by the
dc .or.
N sicManigaIs refusal to answer
ouestt,. vas on advice of the at
torneys who told her the laws protect
ed her and she did not need to answer.
Since the hour of her arrival the
detectives have dogged Mrs McMani-
gal and her children. They stole her
trunk and held II two hours when
they secured n search warrant to try
and give the proceedings a semblance
OF legality. After breaking open the
trunk nothing whatever that served
their purpose was found. II was
openly charged the detectives wanted
to make a pant in the trunk but
they were too closely watched to make |
the attemst successful.
After her terrible ordeal with the
gun men Mrs. McManigal has been
confiaed to her bed She Will be
taken into court tomorrow and II 10
believed the detectives who have the
full run of the district attorneys office
and the sheriffs office and jail VIII
succeed In getting the woman sent 10
prison for contempt OF court so they
will be able to work on her and have
no restraint. They say II they can do
thi. they can break her down. She
1. already physically broken and It
4. claimed that a term in a cell will
kill her.
Mrs. NcManigal's children are also
badly frightened and fear their moth
er Ia TO be taken from them.
Torture and imprisonment OF wo-
men Is a part of the program that