Show RIVALS INQUISITION SENATOR HEYBURN DEMANDS AN INVESTIGATION OF THIRD DEGREE TACTICS Objects to Alleged Methods of Officers Of-ficers In Obtaining Statements and Confessions from Those Charged With Crime Washington a resolution introduced Intro-duced on Thursday by Senator Hey burn is adopted the senate will take up the matter of what is known among police officials as the third degree The resolution provides for the appointment ap-pointment of a select committee of three to Investigate the practice of administering what Is known as the third degree ordeal by officers of the law for the purpose of extorting statements state-ments and confessions from those charged with crime Mr Hoyburn said he had read an article in a Washington paper giving an account of the methods said to have been resorted to by the Atlantic City police to obtain a confession from William Seyler charged with tho murder of Jane Adams He asserted such methods were more cruel than those of the inquisition They were not only barbarous he said but are in direct conflict with American Institutions Insti-tutions under which an officer Is prohibited pro-hibited from talking with his prisoner on the subject of the charge against him No one with a proper sense of duty would resort to such a practice In obi ob-i I 5 WELDON B HEYBURN United States Senator from Idaho tainlng testimony against an accused person and no brutal custom should drive an official to subject a prisoner to a probate trial before his appearance appear-ance In open court declared Senator Hey burn Such a condition III revolting to the house and I think the entire subject should he investigated |