ALLEGED POLICE TERRORISM.
Are our New Zealand police adopting that abomination known in the United States as the torture of the Third DegTee? We trust not,' but statements mado by a witness in the Kingsland murder trial indicate that things are verging that way. A waitress named 35dith McDowell, under cross-examina-tion at the trial, stated that she went to the detective office with two, detectives, whom she named. One of them said they kneyr she arrived in Auckland on June 3rd and on the 6th she went to O'Shaughncssy's to have an. operation performed, remained there until the 7th, and/returned home on the Bth. in conclusion he said: "We have a way of torturing you to make you speak the truth." He also said he would "lock her up for the night." Ho must have had her there for nearly three hours. Replying to Mr Mays (for the Grown) the witness said that when the detective made the statement about her going to O'Shaughnessy's for an illegal purpose she did not say she didn't like to ad;mit it. Witness added: "They had me so terrified that I didn't know what I was saying.'' '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8444, 11 August 1911, Page 6
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193ALLEGED POLICE TERRORISM. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8444, 11 August 1911, Page 6
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