New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-09
Y outh Charges
Detectives Beat
AndKickedHirrl
Costa Rica1l TO Have His
Consul Demand Punish
n1ent for L hre e Who
Gave Him Third Degree
Eye and Arm Are Marked
Boy Accused of Robbery
Trembles as He 4 ellis
Story i'm Tribune Office

j. X. Oreomuno, Consul General of
Costa Rica, will be asked TODAY to de-
mand that three detectives of the West
Sixty-eighth Street police station be
punished for their alleged beating,
kicking and hlackjaeking of one OF
Costa Rica's citizens in the back roon,
OF the station house on Thur Nay nieat.
The injured Costa Ricaa, who came
to the Tribune Office late last night, ae-
companied by friends, who confirmed
part of mis- story, is Gonzalo Mora. a
slight youth of twenty-four years, who
bore marks of violence under his left
eve and on, his left forearm, as was
duly attested by Dr. E. B. Prout, of 3o1
West Twenty-fourth Street, who ex-
amined young Mora shortly after he
alleged the detectives assaulted him.
Mora, who lives at 367 West Thirty
sixth Street, trembled as he told the
story Of the brutality he said the three
detectives subjected him to AFTER they
tried to get him to confess to a robbery
woman accused him of committing.
After beating him, Mora says, the de-
tectives freed him.
Steward Provided Alibi
At the time of the alleged robbery,
Mora, according to Carmelo Portalii,
who has employed him for more than
eighteen months. was working in the
pantry Of the Hotel Esplanade, at
Seventy Street and West End
Avenue. portalli is steward at the
hotel, and was present when one of the
three detectives called at the hotel on
Thursday evening.
This detective first saw Herbert Well,
manager of the hotel, and informed
him that he wanted to arrest Nora for
robbery committed at IL o'clock on
Tuesday morning, August 20, We'll
looked up the records and informed the
detective that Nora, whose honesty he
was sure of, could not have committed
the robbery, since he had been work
ing in the hotel from early that morn
ing until 2:3o in the afternoon. and
accordingly could not have committed
q robbery ten blocks away. The
detective made the arrest. however.
The West Sixty-eighth street police
station last night professed ignorance
of the identity of the detective and of
the two detectives who are alleged to
have assisted him at the police station
in applying the third degree to the
youth.
Mora Tells of Incident
This is Mora's story:
"The detective took me to the sta
tion house. He walked past the desk.
He did not have my name entered on
the book. He took me in the back
room. The woman who accused me of
the robbery was there. She was ac-
companied by man know. There
was another detective with them. The
two detectives asked my accuser and
her companion TO leave the room
| When the two left one Of the detect
ives locked the door Then they asked
me to confess that / stole the $50
said:
81 cannot make such confession. !
never stole anything in my life,
aThen one of the detectives lifted me
| up in the air by the waist. The other
took out his blackjack and hit me in
| the stomach where 1t left no mark
They asked me again to confess. i
could hardly talk. They HE mo again
| i begged them not TO hit me. They said:
Contest ! repeated was innocent
! They hit me again and one blacked ms
eye and another twisted my arm tit
1.-THE skin was abrased and I could no,
move IT. But kept saying WAS In.
/ nocent.
"Then they unlocked The door ami
drought in the man and weman, ans
| the woman said She would have til.
police let me go IL gave her $50.
+ said was innocent and would NOT piy,
her cent. Then q third detsNsiv,
lcame IN. He was bigger than the othe
two. was wearing d straw hat. HI
Init me with something. II blinded me
The room spun around and they hel,
me. When I could SEQ again pieces q
iny straw hat were on the ground
Then they let ME GO. .p
The blotter at the police statio,
sbears out Maga's story thaes NO xecor;
was made Of his arrest