The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-09-21
CORDOVA WOMAN
BOUNDED BY
POLICE

with large portrait of former resi-
dent of Cordova, under the caption of
"Officer enters innocent girls room at
a. m" Here's the story:
Mayor Gill began an investigation
Saturday of charges made Miss Lillian
McClug, "a, of the Oxford hotel, 1920
First Ave-. that City Detective Daniel
McLennan arrested her in her room at
l a. m. Friday, then compelled her to
dress while he remained in the room.
Miss McClugs parents live in Port
Angeles. She has lived in Seattle for
about two years. and has been employ.
ed in various downtown department
stores.
She spent one year in Alaska as
night nurse in the hospital of the Cop
per River G Northwestern railroad at
Cordova.
The girl appeared Friday afternoon
as witness against Mrs. Nellie De-
Vorss, charged in Justice Drinkers
court with shoplifting. Mrs. Devoross
was convicted and fined $50.
At midnight Thursday, the evening
before the trial of Mrs. Devoross the
latter woman appeared at police head
quarters in company with a man.
Complains to Headquarters.
The man said girl had robbed him
of his watch.
Mrs. DeVorss told the police she had
seen the watch in the possession OF
Miss McClurg.
Detective McLennan accompanied
the pair to the Oxford hotel to arrest
the girl. There was no warrant is
sued.
"The detective, after the clerk had
refused to let him come up to my
room. called me from the hotel office
on the telephone Miss MeClurg said
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give me five minutes to dress and go
to the station with him.
st couldn't have been half min
ute afterward that he pounded on my
door. had slipped on a kimono, and
I went to the door and opened it
little. The detective then pushed his
way in, and ordered me to dress.
| Stays in Her Room.
"He styed right in the room with
me. Finally took some of my clothes
into small bathroom that opens off
my room, and dressed in there, but |
had to do it with the door open.
"He wouldn't even allow me even to
close the door"
McLennan than walked with her
to the station, she says. Outside the
hotel they met Mrs. DeVross and the
man who said Miss McClurg had stolen
his watch.
This couple got into an auto, the
girl says, and kept pace with them all
the way to headquarters.
There McLennan and other detec-
tives bullied her for an hour and
half, Miss McClurg asserts. trying to
get from her confession that she had
stolen the mans watch.
Finally, at 8 a. m, they decided
they had nothing her. and released
her.
Spends Evening With Friend.
Miss McClurg had spent the evening
before, when she was declared to have
stolen the watch, at the home of a
friend, Mrs. Martha Metz, 1893 Fifth
ave. N. She declares the whole af-
fair was engineered to discredit her
testimony in the DeVoross case.
Detective McLennan would not
admit to the Star Saturday that he
forced his way into the girls room.
He says she asked him to come in.
He stated, however, that he stayed
in her room while she put her clothes
on in the bathroom adjoining. &
After it was all over he said, and he
had heard about the DeVoross case
that was to come up on the day fol-
lowing. he made up his mind that the
girl was innocent.
Girl in Nervous State.
Miss McClurg is still in a highly
nervous state as a result of her ex-
perience.
II never was inside Jail or a police
station before in my life," she de-
clared. Neither was ever subjected
to such indignities as were forced
upon me by Detective McLennan, and
the things that were said to me while
the detectives were trying at head
quarters to make me confess to a
crime knew nothing about"
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