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deny that any naltreatment whatever
was used and they agree that the pris-
oner admitted breaking into the store
and taking 5000 from two cash reg
listers. MoStyns statement says that
the prisoner told him of o spot In a
vacant lot where he had thrown q cash
register after rifing Il and that he,
Mostyn, went and found the register
there.
Charges He Was Beaten.
Harker told Star reporter today.
however. that the police had already
found the cash register when they ques-
toned him and that they simply put
the words In his mouth and that to
every question he would answer yes"
for fear that the beating they had
been giving him would Ee continued.
He said he would have admitted any
thing that they wanted MIN to In order
to escape the beating.
Harker exhibited q badly diseolored
bruised left eye and right ear this
morning. There was a cut in the top
Of his head and several cuts and bruises
along his left shin which he said were
caused by the policemen kicking him
with the toes Of their shoes.
There were faint red marks on his
back from the neck down to the waist.
some of them curling around to the
side, which he said were caused by a
beating with three feet Of rubber hose.
All Of the policemen who took part in
the beating, he said, were In plain
clothes. He said that six of them were
present, although the the ofIicial re-
port only mentions three
The ofncial report said that he was
arrested after o'clock Saturday morn
Ing and released at $40 Saturday night.
Says Friend Bought Suit.
According to the report. Harker spent
some Of the money from the cash regis
ter on . new outf1t of clothes He said
today, however, that he had won SIC
in crap game and that he gave S34
Of this to q friend, George Price, to
buy him the suit. 1t was this suit
which was on him when he was arrest
ed and which the police took away from
him TO hold as evidence. Harker
charges that they took it away because
1t Is covered with his blood.
The ofiicial report states that Harker's
attorney, 8. McComas Hawken, refused
to allow his client to be interviewed by
police. Mr.. Hawken said today that he
was perfectly willing for him to be in
terviewed so long as he was present with
q shorthand reporter to take down what
was said. He also denied stories that
Harker had been hidden from the
police during the course of the tnyes-
tigation saying that the youth had
be at his home At Glenn Dale, Md,
after his release from the first precinct
until after he came 20 his once this
morning.
Has Prison Record.
Harker works at Sandie's Bakery at
70l North Capitol street. where he is
employed as q cook In the manufacture
of doughnuts Philip Sanford, one Of
the proprietors, said today that at the
time OF Harkers arrest Saturday morn
ing there was not q blemish Of any
kind on his body. He said Harker had
worked for them about a week, but
that previously be had been employed
several times and that he was good
worker and strictly honest.
Harker's police record released by
the department today, shows that on
February %, 1927, he was given one
year for "joy-riding'; on June 20, 1927.
one year for grand larceny and on
Of grand larceny. the terms to run
concurrently
He was put on probation after the
charge Of ioy-riding, but 1t was revoked
later
There is also an entry showing that
on February 8. 1925, he was arrested
for HOUSEKEEPING and robbery at At
lantic City, but the disposition Of this
case is not given
Harker said today that he had served
one year for joy-riding, but that on the
three other cases he had been put on
three years probation. which expired in
May OF this year, anG that he had
never been in any trouble during the
probationary period.