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Show WESTERN HEWS ITEMS, How Denier Detectlics Perform T&elr Daties: A VEI'.V SrAI'TUM! KEPORT. A Ship ou lire, Comln-f Tliro3-:U the Golden (Jalr. UUtUKNU. Shortly after mldnisht last Wednesday Wed-nesday a good ileal or excitement was cau-ed along tho water front by the statement that a alii p on tiro was conllns through the Golden Gate, Sau Francisco. Soon ntlerward the tall stars of a craft were to be seen wrapi-! in slimes moving past Melggh'wliarfluloirofatug.whlch was souudins her whistle as a warn-In- to other ves-els In the bay. It was soon ascertained that the burn- . i ....... !. ul,Mnr -limit of 1112 vessel iw i.mc vw-" -- Orfcwtf.Cantaln Atwood. beloui-Iuic to Preston & McKlauon, which sailed ou the 12th for Shoalwater llayto load with lumber for this iioru Whenseventy-ave miles from the Farallonenshe was discovered to be on lire. Captain Atwood Immediately Imme-diately put about and ran for port. Off tlie north head the tuc Jlteanl tdeked her up and towed her to the Mission Hats, where the flames were extinguished. Chronicle. 1VYOMI2CU. Cheyenne, Vyo.,Oct. l.-.-Ulias. Miller, a baby-faced lioy of sixteen, arrested at Manhattan yesterdaj. confesses to a crime which startled this section two weeks ago. H-p-IMubrr"7th. a brakemau inspectlnu Lis tmlt. at Hill-dale, a station 2U miles cast of Cheyenne, heard 1 n KroaninK In a car. Iuvestlsration disclosed Hie vrarm ldy or a .lead tramp and one other dyinB. Lad" had a .vouul In the right temple aud uuder the deal tody was a revolver re-volver with two chambers emplj. The train came on toW-1""1 the wounded man died at the hospital. hos-pital. They Jiad no mouey, lilt ropers dated St. J"-J'''' Missouri. Tivj Ivorf Xi. Fi-hbrough and W. It. Lmersouor that place, average young men. who Marted to seo the west with a fund or 51W. ThlslufonnaUonsliat-tered ThlslufonnaUonsliat-tered all theories hut murder for a ..,!-.. of mstern delec- fives went on the case. Tliej followed fol-lowed a St. Joe crook who was seen with the younR men at Lincoln. Sheriff Martin of this place too the trailer a boy who -auie Into ll'"- dalo on the funeral nnd hospital train and who hltou the px-senger train with a ticket for Cheyenne. He told coullictius stories about his money and his destination. This was Charles Miller and Martin hunted him down. The confession is to theellect tliat he shot loth men as they slept, placinc the revolver uiuzzle at the head of one and turn-in turn-in ' at once before the other was fully awake. The lad says he was overcome by the display oT money made by lib conipnnlon. They had gold and silver and paper money, and while they fed him would -rive him none of their wealth. His lirst plan was to cut their throats. Then he lij-urod there would be no uoi-e in sliootinc while the train was In motion. He waited all night and until 10 In tlieinoniliiK beforeanop-orlutiity beforeanop-orlutiity to murder them was made. He took off Kmersou'a shoes Iu look I in: for the suuniler and threw his revolver under the body. Miller Mil-ler acts like any hoy would. He talks freely, then ctiv.JieraM. ivjlokado. The grand jury have made some very straus-e rejiorLH concerning the detectives in Denver. Among other charges is this that they have extorted ex-torted confessions from ersons, Illegally Ille-gally arrested. The report says: -The method iu vogue in the detective de-tective department iu the city of extorting confessions from men whom It nny see fit to arrest without with-out any warrant or authority of law, is something so cruel and barbarous that this Jury has been compelled to take the fullest measures a-corded it under the law to hilly bring to just-ire just-ire the persons Implicated. The days of the inquisition and of witchcraft witch-craft probably recorded nothing I more cruel or liorbarous than Hie treatment of helpless primness in ""- handsofolUiersof the law, armed to the titth, trying to extoit state-metils state-metils aud confessions by means of blows and kicks aud threats to kill, which confession", if obtained and true, the miserable Idiotsengaed in the work must have known could not be used In any court of ju-tice in the United States, by having hav-ing lK.cn obtained in any such manner. man-ner. The testimony lieforeussliows that four iiereons who had been arrested ar-rested aud confined In the city jail witliout any warrant or other authority au-thority of law were, between the hours of 1 and S o'clock iu the morn-lugs morn-lugs of October 2 and ft, taken one at a time from their cells In the city jail, into the majestic presence or at least three detectives iu a room ot the detective department ami Hit through a course or "detective examination" ex-amination" which must have been discovered by some or tlie readers or history in this department, as having hav-ing occurred In the days of THE das:k Aura. The peculiar "eoun-o or this detective de-tective examination" consisted lu threats to murder, backed by drawn plstols,by knocking tho victim down and each detective taking his turn at kicking him while down, liy striking strik-ing lilm over the head and face with pistols, clubs awl billys until he was senseless, and then railing to obtain the statements desired, letiirning the prisoner to lib tell with his cbthis covered with blood, and iu two instances with such ghostly wounds that it was necessary to call in the services or a sureeon with his needle to heal them. We round, on Inspection of the detective department de-partment of the city, the walls of one of the rooms oUeretl with blood, which we were informed came from the wounds or the prisoners prison-ers referred to. These assaults were made by officers who are sworn to enforce the laws of the city and State, and (or the purje of obtaining obtain-ing statements which they desired to put Into the mouths of the prisoners whom they were examining." ex-amining." In a city asenterprlsing and progressive as Denver there should lie uo dinirulty in securing men for the detective service whose qualifications are somewhat above that of human ErTCiinti-s thumpers and assassins. Wo cannot can-not but again reiterate that it is not remarkable that so many murders have i-scai-ed detection and capture by tiie detective dc-urtrueut or the city or Denver irthe method which we have just recited is the one in vogue, as it seems to lie, for ferret-lug ferret-lug out crime nnd ilitecting criminals. crimi-nals. Two of the prisoners referred to above were piaccu tinuer arrest and held in the city jail and put through this course of treatment, simply because they had served one term in the penitentiary In this State, and since that time, so far as this jury has been able to ascertain, have tried to earn their living In an honorable way. Wu apprehend It is not the policy or our laws to forever for-ever punish men fo crimes for which they have once done penance according to the laws of the State. We havealwiiysbcllovedaiid Iiavo been Impressed with the idea tliat the theory of the criminal laws, In confining con-fining men in tho penitentiary, was to reform them and start them anew In tho work). If they are to bo made the victims of Inclllclcnt detectives, who cannot capture real ami deserving de-serving criminals, but who think they must capture some persons and beat some sort of a statement from them in order to convince the public that they are in some degree performing per-forming public duties, and verily, wo believe that no reform can be hoied for under any cf tho jwnal statutes or the state, aud that all firlsoners would be better oil to serve ire sentences in the confines ot the penitentiary, than to come In contact con-tact with officers or tho law who have so little regard for the authority authori-ty vested In them as the detective force of tho city or Denver at tho present time seems to have." Vn-rer Vn-rer A'e '-. |