BROOKLYN GANG
POLICEMAN SHOT BY SERGEANT. THE “THIRD DEGREE.” In a fight between members of bootlegging gangs in Brooklyn early on the morning of March 19 Police-sergeant Charles McCarty shot and killed a policeman named Daniel Maloney. Both officers were in plain clothes. Two other men were wounded by bullets, but not fatally. It is stated that Maloney, although a constable was actually a protector of the gangsters. Three suspects were but they would say nothing except that Maloney had been a good friend of theirs. If they are not more communicative by to-night they will face the "third degree.” This ordeal, as described by the Police Commissioner himself, to a public meeting last night, consists in placing the prisoner in a room with open windows, removing his coat and allowing him Io remain in wintry breezes "until his tongue thaws.” The Brooklyn fight started when the gangsters fried to take an informer "for a ride” —a colloquialism for a death journey—and he declined to enter a motor-car.
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Southland Times, Issue 20791, 4 June 1929, Page 7
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168BROOKLYN GANG Southland Times, Issue 20791, 4 June 1929, Page 7
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