| Show ACCUSE POLICE IN TORTURE DEATH Sf Officers Shake f t While Story of Beating Is Told Accounts of Death of f X Young oung Prisoner Bri g l Gasps Gasps' From Spectators Atte Attempt pt to Fix Blame 7 c z za c. c B a Br Associated 4 Pren MINEOLA N. N Y July 19 Thirteen 19 Thirteen policemen stripped of their badges waited today to see who wh would be charged charge with out beating the life of a y 20 year old ar prisoner in a ter tet rifle third degree Alter After hearing a story of p police bru brutality tally that made spectators gasp Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme preme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink sought today to fix fix jn individual al responsibility responsibility responsibility for the killing of Hyman Stark who died of a fractured larynx Fri day Detectives at Nassau county headquarters had bad questioned him for eight hours about the robbing and beating of a detectives detective's mother Steinbrink who sat as a co committing committing commit commit- mit- mit ting magistrate in m a John Doe inquiry that lasted until late last night will give his findings tomorrow Murder charges against some of the 13 suspended suspended sus sus- men were considered a pass pass- unity Dimy ASSAILANTS PICKED Three fellow suspects of Starks Stark's picked eight detectives and two patrolmen patrolmen pa pa- who they said beat them with rubber hose blackjacks a heavy ledger and a shoe This followed sensational testimony by Assist Assistant nt District Attorney Martin W. W Littleton Jr directly implicating Deputy Chief Frank Tappan in the beating of Stark a youth with a police po police po- po lice rec record rd Littleton swore that Tappan came into the detectives' detectives room on Friday looking very hot mopping his brow browand browand browand and exclaiming about Stark Hes He Heth th the t toughest u he t 7 Ive I've eY ever 1 seen I 1 put one root loot on nis niB Deity au arm armone back and one on his throat and rocked forth and it didn't him Tappan turning pale pal took the stan stand and flatly denied Littletons Littleton's state state- meat ment The suspension of the 13 and the arrest arrest ar ar- rest of four policemen as material materia witnesses followed ollow d exposure by District Dis Dis- Attorney Elvin N. N Edwards o of what he called a plot to have Detective Detec- Detec live tive Joseph Hizenski son of ot the woman worn wom an beaten in the robbery take Stake the th rap for beating Stark Edwards s said the other detectives detective figured it would be easy casy for Hizenski to Lo escape conviction by pleading h he lost his head in rage over his mothers mother's injuries Hizenski In a mild voice testified he ne poked the almost naked Stark twice t LYING CHARGED Youre lying thundered Justice Justic Steinbrink He repeatedly warned police pollee witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses that in covering up th they y laid themselves open to perjury charges Two policemen Harry Zander and Leslie Pearsall h he bitingly called expert expert ex pert sert masseurs us used d to I lIpped tight prisoners One witness told of seeing Stark lying ying unconscious s in a soundproof rif rifle 1 room his trousers half off ort his shirt shir all open In front disclosing raw welts wells of which a physician testified there were 50 Others said they saw him slumped over in a chair too loo far gone to speak gagging at times limes and then finally un un- un- un conscious It was Police PoUce Captain Emil Morse that ordered him taken to the rifle room testimony showed Zander insisted that Hizenski cryIng crying cry cry- Ing ng You lowdown thief thiet le leaped a at Stark hit him on the throat time and again until his head snapped back and then dropped downward Dr Thomas J Fearns physician called In by police said he found Stark dying and in shocking condl concH Continued on Pac Pau Two SUSPEND POLICE IN DEATH PROBE Continued fr from rn FA Pus Puce KB One tion He asked what the matter W was wasand wasand Ui and was told He must have had a fit of some kind You detected that it wasn't a fit asked Justice Steinbrink No trained eye was necessary for that the physician retorted Isse Stein Stern and Philip Cecala two of ot Starks Stark's fellow suspects in the robbery robbery rob rob- bery of ot Mr Mrs Hizenski appeared frightened as they pointed out policemen policemen policemen police police- men they accused of beating bealing thorn them The fourth man Alex Drangel Drangel- was surly and defiant Walking down a along along long row fOW of men some of them white and shaking he would stop In front of one give him a thump thump- that sent him back on his rus heels beels and say He slapped me inc around He Hc shook his fist at Detective Ser Sergeant geant grant Marcell Chagnon accused of wielding a rubber hose and muttered Id like to break your skull The suspensions left the tha county detective de- de active bureau sadly riddled and newspapers predicted a shake shakeup up would follow The men suspended were Lieutenant Jesse Mayforth orth Sergeant Ser Ser- geant Charles Wesser Sergeant MarceIle Marcello Mar- Mar cello ceIle Chagnon Deputy Chief Frank Tappan Detectives Patrick Shanley Shaney Thomas Bonanza Leslie Pearsall Pc George Hu Hutchinson on Harry Zander and Patrolmen Lannis Ray H Harry rry LU- LU Harold and Joseph Jo seph Of these Wesser Pearsall Zander and were held as material witnesses |
