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US Shocked By BRUTAL POLICE METHODS

By John Sampson

New York.

IVIC and bar associa- tions are protesting ugainst a series of incidents in which New York Police have resorted to brutal third degree methods to extract confessions from murder suspects,

The most shocking case involved a 19-year-old youth who was forced into con fessing a hold-up murder lust March, and was in prison awaiting trial when police discovered they had made a mistake.

The youth. Alvin Bamer, was in a cinema when the hold-up occurred. His family and friends affirmed it. Nevertheless, he was hauled out of bed at 1.30

to a. and Lakon

a police station where he was ques- tioned for 18 hours.

Finally detectives told

him.

they had brought in two of his pals who had confessed com", plicity in the crime.

said Barner

"All right do you want

wearily.

me to tell you?"

"Tell us anything,” 1 detec

tive answered.

IN GAOL

Barner made up a story. Only after he signed it was he given anything to eat. Then he was taken to a bridge, where he showed police how he had thrown his gun into the water. He had never owned a gun.

He and his pals were in gaol ten days when police heard that another trie was boasting of the murder. This trio was arrested and the first three released.

"I never did so much, praying life," said Bamer after-

Ramy was silly of me con-

lessing. I guess, but I was con- fused and scared, and one cop told me it would make me feel better"

The American Civil Liberties Union, one of the most active defenders of civil rights in the country, is now conferring with the District Attorney's office · to try to prevent such occurrences in the future.

"We

A spokesman told me: are pointing out the advantages of the British system, where a man is charged, cautioned and promptly brought into court,

"Here the third degree lakes

be

beaten or starved ΟΣ kept

SILES

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1956.”

“Remember, George? Ten years ago — we celebrated VE Day with those two nice little frauleins in Bremen."

THE MATADOR

without

A BULLRING

by PETER CARSON

T

HE hand that killed 150 charging bulls. reached but. and gripped not a sword but a spoon. The man who had earned £1,500 in a week in Spain's bullrings stirred

many forms. The victim this tea and, looking around awake for days by protracted the cramped little parlour.

'grilling. Such

methods

are of the Greenford (Middle-

always Megal but too often condoned by the public."

sex) semi-detached, said dis-

When British-born Ann Yar-consplately: "It isn't easy, row was found stabbed to death you know, being back, in in a girl friend's fat last

February. Ernest Jackson, aged

England at 27 and knowing

35, was taken into eustody be nothing but how to fight

cause someone recalled that Ann

of him. He was was afraid questioned for three days, then released.

BRUISES

bulls."

And Jacqueline, pretty. wife of Britain's only

matador, cut in quickly as

she fed five-month-old Vanessa Felicia: "And

if

Next Mike Morelli, who had never seen the girl in his life. was suspected of being the you ever do that again "Mike" once referred to in D you'll have a divorcé un Jelter written by Ann.

your hands. for cruelty."

questioned" for

He was

thirty hours. Once he smugglied a note out saying the police were beating him. His head bore

bruises

When he appeared in court.

Soon after Morelli was re- leased a 25-year-old man William Farrell

Wis

named arrested.

mental

The warning was made. light with a smile. But there you have the dilem- of Vincent Charles

ma

He confessed after all-night Hitchcock, the Southend- questioning.

But before he born son of a Hatton Gar- could be brought to trial doctors pronounced him hopelessly

syden jeweller, who for five insane. He is in a prison hos-years knew the dazzling. pital.

dangerous life of the fiesta The tragedy of these cases is de torus, who heard the that suspeels are pointed out as murderers long after they have idolatrous Oles! of the fans of ring sweetly in his ears,

all cleared Nearly

to change their addresses.

Jomes MacPherson, mechanic,

Is

£85,000 for

was

1

them lose their jobs and have who had from the rich and the smart the friendship. suing

upon all the city for that is lavished

arrest Hematadors false

while they re- he

subjected to main brave

and hand- inquisition, torture and bodily. assault for 24 hours by police. some.

Was obliged to say I would submit to a la detector test," he states. The ordeal was enough to cause an innocent person to weaken and yield up a false confession."

COERCED

How many innocent

Suit of lights

All gone yet still there

"I'd rather have a live husband than a dead hero." says the wife of Vincent Hitchcock, the Englishman who fought bulls in Spain for £500 a time.

*I would like "to go back

With lean brown face, black hair and swirling cape, Bilch. a man who in some strange cock looked a Spaniard trap had transmuted not only personality but nationality.

claiming the successes

་

of

וי

But Hitchcock never saw El Ingles (the English. Spain until he went there as man),

to

Awarded tall and two ears,

that comes an honour most matadors only after years.

Hitchcock freely acknowledges that the curiosity value of being an Englishman helped to bring quick fame. But also, he fought his bulls with elegance and valour.

Twice badly gored, many more by times slightly wounded, 1952 he had reached front rank

and was fighting 20 bulls 2 season, sometimes three in a week,

at £500 a tine-for a Alm matador's receipts are on star scale.

And where is thẻ meney now? Hitchcock laughed. "Easy come, easy go, The cost of living- very gay living is high for a bullfighter Everyone drinks

the health of the matador--on his bill.

I earned fabulous money fast and it went just as fast, an enjoyment mostly, I suppose. You think it's a well that can't run dry.”

Fishing

"When the season ended in the autumn of 1953 he returned to England to many Jacqueline. He fell ill and an operation pre- vented him from rehuning Spain the next year. Then his kdm

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father died and Sacqueline

then

again and made her feelings felt. started a travel agency and it flourished; but he abandoned it

Too frustrating sending other people to Spain while I sat day after day In that stuffy London office."

So now Hitchcock is trying a merchant seaman in 1948, to become a full-time and pro- actor. He has appeared fessional

ing his parents five years ago. wants a live husband and self in his "suit of lights," tonary, he returned

Twice he was saved from the not a dead hero.. electric chair. Now the courts

the gold-embroidered cos- tume that costs £100..

to

"a Elm based

A few months later he took in "What's My Line?" and and in Spain to be recaptured, On the sideboard, beside the mad decision. Against small roles in a few Ty plays. persons Hitchcock believes. But his a pile of fresh ironing, stood family opposition, and with He hopes that talks now going are actually convicted it is im- wife, the young English re-

on his own Bizarre career will possible to know. Camilo

bear fru

fruiti Leyra, 55, was convicted of kill-porter he met in Madrid, a framed pictured of him only £35 and a Spanish dic. oh, to put him in

become a fighter of bulls.

Between jobs and they are not frequent-he takes his rods For bread, he worked as and goce fishing for teach and have ordered him to be re-tried "I would like to go back

As he sat below it, re- a house-painter in Madrid, bream for this master of the con- to the bullring," he told

me. I'm still remembered. miniscing, he was wearing He practised the art that most perilous of arte pyes fish. And in the evening he sits in It would simply be a matter a blue reefer jacket, white had so strangely thrown an in the quietest of sports,

urgent fascination upon him detectives usually of getting fit again and shirt and school tie. Yet, with bicycle hand bars for that overtrowded front room and sometimes re-reads the bring him to the scene of the losing a few pounds. But with his brilliantined thin horns and sacking for cape; yellow press cutting

in the hope that he willa wry sullle as you see ning black hair, his lean and he learned to kill down and re-enact the

my wife doesn't approve tha of the idea.

who face still saddle-brown from bulls in the local slaughter That is what they did

the sun glare in which he house. other knows?" young Puerto Rican. the day Cameramen were on hand

on the grounds that he was "mentally coerced into

1 when

a suspect maintains his "atter long" secret

Bata weldi

his manacled hands.

**There are times when become very nostalgie?" he told mé, "and then diplay

almost flamened records aźd"

my

so often stood taunting on He found a manager to all mens heal Pagan You

find

sex him to stay away!"

to photograph him confessing With his foot he stirred

a bull with swirls of the sponsor him, and three see be sipped his fled cup Inspent! he fell down on his

neer dietching a Bible between a bloodstained muleta the

scarlet cloth that drapes cape, he looked a Spaniard months later (a fraction of of tea-51 adore Spain." speise, don't make the sword in a heap be: entire: a man who in some the time that a Spanish

lored tween

a carrycot and a strange way had transmuted would train) he faced his

first bull. He was tossed A few hours later they an- bundle of old photographs not only personality

swear to it," he

his captors.

zolinded. Kat he had.

and Press clippings pro natio

Will be return to the bulls,

the ginhour and the niche? think Vincený Hitchcock" is not sure. think hid with wieber his second fight he was she wwe nilter that bat won'

but but he killed it cleanly.

At

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