Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-12-01

uuTu you 10 prove, an AltDt.
SO likely as not the police, being quite as eager
to give evidence of their aertness BY securing a
conviction as to get at the truth and secure ius-
ttce would give you what they call the "thrd
degree"
According to a writer In the New York Herald.
win the third degree the public is well acquaint.
en- through short stories, articles novels and the
urana' put there has developed Of recent years
q rest more grfmly nerve racking. more crush.
ing and relentless-the silent third degree"-
10 the study Of which penologists and psycholo-
g'sts are giving much time and thought. In the
opihlon OF some 1t Is more unjust than the older
form OF bullying questioning. Others declare
tnat u is true test-0ne which wrings the truth
from the subject more certainly than all the ques-
uoning In the world, and he goes on to exnlnin
now the silent third degree works:
The McNamara Case
one OF the most notable cases Of the practice
OF the silent third degree was In the Los Ange.
les Times dynamiting case. James b. Mcnamara
was on trial. The prosecution had developed
strong case against him, but the mans nerve
was wonderful.
geles secret service bureau. who directed the
grueltng daily presentation of, witnesses who
spoke not nor were spoken to, but who merely
nleo into the court room, caught the eye of j. B.
Mcnamara shot him glance of recognition and
then. unquestioncd by counsel for either side left
the room. ~
Women with whom McNamara had associated.
hotel clerks who had seen him register under
false names, cabmen who had driven him to
places where detectives contended he had met
fellow conspirators in the dynamite plot-all
these were nlarshaled by the secret service men
and paraded before the prisoner.
Wildly, realistically almost as If with NOV
Ing picture film. each step in the accused dyna-
miter's Journey from indianapolis to Los Angeles
each stage Of development of the plot. was 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. Mcnamara
knew could testify damagngly against him en-
tered the courtroom and bowed to him in rec0g-
milton the thought was crusfingly impressed upon
his mind that another step In his career was
known. ]; .5.ysses XII. s.
One Of these silent witnesses was the mail clerk
who had time and again handed mail to AicNn.
mara at the general delivery window and had
known him as J. b. Bryce. Imagine the effect on
the guilty man when he saw that the mail clerk
recognized him.
There were cabmen who had driven Mcnamara
about, and one Of them had quarreed with him.
Finally woman. plain and rather stability
dressed, white and timid, was ushered into the
courtroom. She sat in one Of the front seats and
gazed at J.. B. Mcnamara.
How the Silent Third Degree Works.
That woman had sold him wrapping paper in
sticks Of dynamite In It.
AS the supreme test the crushing denouenient,
Mcnamara was confronted by the last living per-
son who had seen him before the dynamite ex-
plosfon. It was the bartender who had sold McNa-
mara drink just before he slipped through the
swinging door of the saloon back into Ink alley
and placed the dynamite which destroyed %
lives
"I1l tell you what this silent third degree
does, It wakens a mans conscience That's the
underlying principle that makes It effective" safd
George S. Dougherty formerly in charge Of the
New York police detective bureau. Look here.
I'll tell you how 1t works. ~
"a man 3 arrested for a grave crime-murder.
perhaps He sees no witnesses when he is ar
rested. He is Mt bay, desperate. lighting for his
liberty and maybe for his life. He steels himself
and throws about him an armor of bravad0 or I'M
concern or tacturnity. His nerves are like steel
ibers, and you can't shake Them If you should
bully him he would become sullen and reststtve.
If you should threaten he would become defiant.
He might be open to reason, but suppose he were
not
"When he is arraigned before magistrate
there may be several witnesses there whom he
recognizes and who he knows, will 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 to him then. but
when he sees all these witnesses who are con-
nected with his crime in different ways he begins
to realize that he may be forced to admit his
guilt and that these persons are going to make
him out liar before the friends and relatives
who have stuck by him. That is the beginning
of the break, and it reaches type of man you
can't bully or hoodwink into confession"
Setting Stage for Geidei.
On July q. 1911. William Fl. Jackson, broker
Of New York, was found murdered in his room at
the Iroquofs hotel, in the heart of the club dis
trict of New York city. He had been beaten and
stranged and a bottle which had contained chic
reform was found on the premises.