The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-11-30

ae as@q1 as s"4 ~ WOULD ss s. no
hard Tor yoa to prove albi.
SO likely as not the police, being quite eager
To give evidence Of their alertness by securing II
conviction rs to get at the truth and secure jus
tiee. would give you what they call the third
degree
According to writer in the New York Herald,
with the third degree the public is well acquaint-
ed through short stories articles, novels and The
drama but there has developed of recent wears
a test more grmly nerve racking more crush
ing and relentless-the silent third degree'-
to the study Of which penofogiSts and psychol0-
gists are giving much time and thought In the
opinion of some 1t is more unjust than the older
form Of bullying questioning Others declare
that it is true test-oae which wrings the truth
from the subject more certainly than all The ques-
doning in the world. and he goes on to explain
how the silent third degree works:
The Mcnamara Case
one of the most notable eases of the practice
of the silent third degree in the Los Ange=
les Times dynamitng case. james b. Mcnamara
was on trial. The prosecution had developed
strong case against him. but the mans nerve
wonderful.
1t was Samuel L. Browne chief of the Los An
geles secret service bureau. who directed the
grueling daily presentation of witnesses who
spoke not nor We're spoken to. hut who merely
filed into the court room, caught the eye of ! b.
Mcnamara. shot him glance Of recognition and
then. unquestioned by counsel for either side left
the room.
Women with whom Mcnamara had associated
hotel clerks who had him register under
false names, eabmen who had driven him to
places where detectives eonteHdcd he had met
fellow conspirators in the dynamite plot-aIl
these We're marShaled by the secret service men
and paraded before the prisoner
Wildly realistically, almost # with NOV
ing picture film. each step IN the accused dynaz
miter's journey from indianapolis to Los Angeles
each stage of development of the plot vas called
to his mind. and, what was worse there was the
suggestion =that=the prosecution knew all Every
time three or four witnesses Who p Ne Namara
knew could testify damaginely against him en-
tered the courtroom and bowed To him in reeoe-
milton the thought was cruShngly impressed upon
his mind that another step in his career was
known.
One of these silent witnesses was the mail clerk
who had time and again handed mail to McNa-
mara at the general delivery window and had
known him rs ], r. Bryce. Imagine the effect on
the guilty man when he saw that the mail clerk
recognized him
There We're eabmen who had driven Mcnamara
about, and one of them had quarreled with him
Finally woman plain and rather stability
dressed, white and ttmid was ushered into the
courtroom. She sat in one of the front seats and
gazed at i T. Mcnamara
How the Silent Third Decree Works
That woman had sold him wrapping paper in
her store, and in her presence he had wrapped
sticks of dynamite in II.
As the supreme test. the crushing denouement
Mcnamara confronted by the last living pcr-
son who had seen him before the dynamite ex-
plosion. Ii was the bartender who had sold Mona
mara a drink just before ne slipped through the
swinging door Of the saloon back into Ink alley
and placed the dynamite which destroyed 90
lives
I'll tell you what this silent third degree
does, It wakens mans conscience. That's the
underlying principle that makes 1t effective" said
George $. peugberty formerly In charge of the
New York police detective bureau eLool here
TIL tell You how II worIs.
"a man is arrested fer grave crime-murder
perhaps lie sees no witnesses when he is ar
rested. He is ut bay desperate fighting for his
liberty and maybe for his life He stealS himself
and throws about him an armar Of bravado er nm
concern taeturnity. His nerves are like steel
fbers. and You can't shake them. If You should
bully him he would become sueu aud reSStive
If you should threaten lie would become defiant
He might be open 10 reason, hut Supposg he We're
not.
"When he is arraigned before magistrate
there may be several witnesses there whom he
recognizes and who he knows. wfH recognize him
When he has been first arrested he has told his
mother and his wife and his friends that he is
innocent. The lie means nothing 10 him then but
when he sees all these witnesses Who are con
nected WITH MS cTIlt Ill ttIFLlll NaNN lit tVStfS
to realize that he may be forced 10 admit his
guilt and that these persons are gong To mike
him out a liar before the friends and relatives
who have stuck by him. That IS the beginning
of the break. and il reaches a type Of man You
can't bully or hoodwink into a confession
Setting Stage for Geidel.
3. ON July 81 1911, William II. Jackson a broker
of New York was found murdered in his room at
the Iroquos hotel, i'll the heart Of the club dis
trict of New York city He had been beaten and
,strangled and a bottle which had contained chic
reform was found on the premises.