THIRD DEGREE
LINDBERGH CASE ECHO POLICE METHODS NEW YORK, July 20. The brutality of “third degree” methods which were hinted at at the time of the suicide of the English servant, Violet Sharpe, during the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiries, has been shockingly revealed at Nassau County, Florida.
Police witnesses at an inquiry into the death of Hyman Stark, a prisoner, admitted that lie 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 detectives are held as malarial witnesses, as a result of contradictory testimony. The prosecutor charged the police with plotting to have Hi/enski shoulder all (lie blame, in the belief that no jury would convict the assaulted mother’s son for an angry outburst. Stark's three companions charge the detectives with having punched them, “slugged” them with a rubber hose, and dragged them bv the hair along the headquarters’ corridor.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17844, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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