VIOLENCE ALLEGED
“THIRD DEGREE” BRUTALITY,
NEW YORK, July 21. The brutality of “third degrde” methods which were hinted at at the time of the suicide of the , Engjish servant, Violet Sharpe, during the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiries, has been shockingly revealed at Nassau Corrnty, Florida. Police witnesses at an inquiry into the death of Hyman Stark, a prisoner, admitted that he was severely beaten and kicked. Stark was arrested with three others on suspicion of robbing and beating the mother of Detective Hizenski, and died of a broken larynx after eight hours’ “grilling.” Three detectiv.es are held as mater ial witnesses, as a result of contradictory testimony. The prosecutor charged the police with plotting to have Hizenski shoulder all the biaspe. in the belief that no jury would Convict the assaulted mother’s son for’ hn angry outburst. Stalk’s three companions charge the detectives with having punched them, “slugged” them with a rubber hose, and dragged them by the . along the headquarters corridor.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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