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Show HHG OEiiCED HI CJCAGO JURIST Police Methods in Treatment of Prisoners Needs Severe Rebuke. By Associated Press. 'CHICAGO, Fob. 12. "Mugging," as tho S3'Blem of photographing prisoners for tho Hogucs' gallery is sometimes termed by police ofliccrs, received ho-vcro ho-vcro condemnation in (.ho municipal court yesterday when .Judge Gimmcll ordered or-dered Detective James McCarthy to show causo why ho should not bo adjudged ad-judged in contempt of court for having caused lioy "Whitmoro, a student who had .been fined $o for disorderly conduct, con-duct, to bo photographed and placing tho picture in tho bureau. Using the words "outrageous and damnable" in referring (o Homo of tho methods resorted to by tho pohco in the treatment of prisoners, .ludgo Gimmcll said: "Tho rulo' laid down by your superiors is that, no person should be taken to tho bureau of idenlilication unless un-less fined more than $50. In photographing photo-graphing thai boy and perhaps sending the pietiiro throughout tho onnntry ns that of a rogue. J do not believe you acted rightly. I will outer a rulo against vou to show why you should not bo adjudged in contempt of this court." |