Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

drunkard reared. pointing at the big
fellow, who had not spoken a word
in all this tumult but whose look Of
readiness as he stood there with his
hands in his pockets put the "Bavari-
ans" keenly on edge. AT the word
arrested" his face went white and
his arm twitched as if he were about
to whip it out of his pocket and shoot.
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THEN quick thought checked the
movement. It came out later
what that thought was When man
is hunted for a major crime, hunted
with the thoroughness of German
police hunt, confinement in jail for
a minor offense in another city is not
such bad hiding place, this man
decided.
"Oh, all right" he grumbled, his
voice deep in his chest. Ill so
along"
He was searched on the spot, and
revolver, a big clasp knife and
hunting knife were taken from him.
Then before he could resist steel was
snapped about his wrists and a rope
whisked about his legs. 1t was only
then that he noticed how changed was
the expression on the supposedly
drunk "Bavarians.'' Whereat the
prisoners powerful body leaped con-
vulSively, broke from his captors'
hands. thrashed about on the floor.
put up a terrific struggle. But it was
too late.
He was trussed up, thrown into a
patrol wogan, taken to the railroad
station and thence by train to Berlin.
Arrived at police headquarters, he
was faced by the station master at
the village where kriftel was cap
tured.
did you see this man visit your
town." the station master was asked.
The latter nodded.
The prisoner was then faced by
Philip, the young "undersexton" of
the church of which the murdered
man was treasurer.
WAS this the man who made your
acquaintance in the Kaiserhof Cafe
and was so interested in everything
concerning your church.
Philip shamefacedly identified the
stranger who had so completely
pumped him and obtained from him
the information that d collection
would be taken on a certain night.
Then the prisoner was taken down
into the basement of the great police
headquarters building. Here the
guards were dismissed and only three
chiefs and one towering brute Of
detective were left with the prisoner.
The sullen captive waited impassively
for whatever was Forthcoming.
The door from the corridor was
opened and two men rolled in an in
valid's chair' with Kriftel nursing his
still unmended leg. Four pairs OF
eyes eagerly regarded the look that
should pass between the two prison
ers the moment they saw each other
But they had two hardened criminals
to deal with, with their necks in dan
ger of the moose. Not the slightest
flicker of a look on the face of either
Come. come. which of you will
speak first and perhaps save his neck
thereby" snapped one of the chiefs.
Not a word.
Whereupon one of the detective
chiefs drew a deep breath.
'All right, then we shall make yuu
speak,
THE third degree" is an institu-
ton not unknown to some tIegres
with any police. But with the Ger
man police it reaches a systematic.
relentless, ruthless, irresistible power
unequaled anywhere else. Mere
brutality does not explain it, They
use along with physical persuasion
the latest findings in psychology as
to means for making closed lips open
Scarcely anything of the technique
of sweating" ever leaks out of that
basement room in the Berlin police
headquarters. But the results he
come public in the confessions that
save the Berlin courts so much
trouble at the trials of the most stub.
born prisoners.
In the Stenghal case 40 hours after
the detective chief said to his two
prisoners:
Then we shall make you speak
Kriftel spoke. He told of breaking
his leg in the dark of his cellar OF
the thought that came to him how
broken leg would be a perfect aiIbl
if he could get somebody else 20
execute a robbery he would plan.
He told of writing to his former
partner in burglary, Colemacher. to
come to him; of the details they had
worked out together for robbing
Stenghal how Colemacher had broken
into the house through a skylight
while Otto and Shanghai were az
church: how Colemacher had told him
later of the struggle Shanghai had
put up; how he had slit Stenghals
throat TO keep him from arousing
any one.
AS the older criminal, shaken by
40 hours of unremitting pressure.
spoke, the other regarded him with
only q red-eyed stare. Then he. too,
spoke:
Since you have sent me to the
gallows I'll take you along for com
panyr'
He made his threat good by inyolv-
ing Kriftel in another murder.
THE END.
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